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This is a comprehensive text on the function of thought in the history and political sociology of Cameroon. The book brings out how the "hidden hand of history" fashions a political thought which, in turn, creates its own history. Instead of Cameroonians making history, history makes Cameroonians. The book shows how political ideas are fashioned in a post-colonial context in which Europeans impose a superordinate arrangement on a people together with its philosophers. "Thinking the nation" in Cameroon on behalf of Europeans, especially after the leaders of the national liberation struggle were all eliminated, European philosophers put in place a "repressive machine" under which Cameroonians were subjected between 1958 and 1990. Repression gave way to a refined form of enslavement - a modernised version of slavery. Cameroonians joined the bandwagon and have been producing and reproducing Western industrial economies while day-dreaming of what they will never become. The whole idea of nation-building in post-colonial Africa is put in question. This book offers students of political studies, sociology, anthropology and history compelling evidence to grapple with questions as to whether Cameroon is a state or a nation and questions of sovereignty and citizenship.

Nationalism --- National liberation movements --- Cameroon --- Politics and government.

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Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.

National liberation movements --- Nationalism --- Political anthropology --- Political refugees --- Sahrawi (African people) --- Sovereignty. --- Tribal government --- Social conditions --- Politics and government. --- Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʾ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah. --- Polisario. --- Western Sahara --- Politics and government --- Social conditions. --- Jumhurīyat al-Ṣaḥrāʼ al-ʻArabīyah al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah. --- Sahrawi (African people) - Politics and government. --- Tribal government - Western Sahara. --- Nationalism - Western Sahara. --- National liberation movements - Western Sahara. --- Political refugees - Western Sahara - Social conditions. --- Political anthropology - Western Sahara. --- Western Sahara - Politics and government - 1975 --- -National liberation movements

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Anti-Imperialist Modernism excavates how U.S. cross-border, multi-ethnic anti-imperialist movements at mid-century shaped what we understand as cultural modernism and the historical period of the Great Depression. The book demonstrates how U.S. multiethnic cultural movements, located in political parties, small journals, labor unions, and struggles for racial liberation, helped construct a common sense of international solidarity that critiqued ideas of nationalism and essentialized racial identity. The book thus moves beyond accounts that have tended to view the prewar "Popular Front" through tropes of national belonging or an abandonment of the cosmopolitanism of previous decades. Impressive archival research brings to light the ways in which a transnational vision of modernism and modernity was fashioned through anticolonial networks of North/South solidarity.

Radicalism --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Social movements --- Imperialism --- History --- United States --- Race relations --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Anti-colonialism --- Antiimperialist movements --- National liberation movements --- Literature: history & criticism

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"This book proposes an approach to Eurocentrism as a paradigm of knowledge production and interpretation rooted in the Western narrative of modernity and its racial governmentalities. It contributes to the critique of the contemporary workings of Eurocentrism and racism that have frustrated the struggles for the decolonization of knowledge and continue to shape our understandings of the world order in racially hierarchical terms, by re-centering the West/Europe"--Provided by publisher.

History --- Eurocentrism --- Civilization, Western --- Eurocentrism --- Racism --- Historiography --- Knowledge, Theory of --- History --- Decolonization --- National liberation movements --- Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Political aspects --- Study and teaching --- Political aspects

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Revolutionaries --- Guerrillas --- Revolutionists --- Dissenters --- Counterrevolutionaries --- Bushwhackers --- Francs-tireurs --- Guerillas --- Maquis --- Partisans --- National liberation movements --- Marcos, --- Political and social views. --- Ejercito Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico) --- Armée zapatiste de libération nationale (Mexico) --- Zapatista National Liberation Army (Mexico) --- EZLN --- Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Mexico) --- Zapatistas