TY - BOOK ID - 77943679 TI - The Anglophone Cameroon predicament PY - 2011 SN - 1283280582 9786613280589 9956726486 9956726605 9956726362 9789956726608 9789956726363 9956717118 9789956717118 9956717118 9789956717118 PB - Bamenda, Cameroon Langaa Research & Pub., CIG DB - UniCat KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Political aspects KW - West Cameroon (Cameroon) KW - Cameroon KW - Cameron KW - Camerun KW - Camerŵn KW - Federal Republic of Cameroon KW - Gweriniaeth Camerŵn KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Kāmīrūn KW - Kamailong KW - Kameroen KW - Kameron KW - Kameroun KW - Kamerun (Republic) KW - Kamerunská republika KW - Kāmīrūn KW - Republic of Cameroon KW - Republica de Camerún KW - Rèpublica du Cameron KW - Republiek van Kameroen KW - Republik Kameroun KW - Republik Kamerun KW - Republika Kamerun KW - République du Cameroun KW - République fédérale du Cameroun KW - République unie du Cameroun KW - Rėspublika Kamerun KW - State of Cameroon KW - United Republic of Cameroon KW - Рэспубліка Камерун KW - Република Камерун KW - Камерун (Republic) KW - جمهورية الكاميرون KW - كاميرون KW - 喀麦隆 KW - Cameroun KW - Kamerun KW - Cameroun occidental (Cameroon) KW - Western State (Cameroon) KW - Federated State of West Cameroon (Cameroon) KW - Southern Cameroons KW - History KW - Autonomy and independence movements. KW - Politics and government. KW - Politics and government KW - Ethnic relations KW - Political aspects. KW - Languages KW - Social aspects KW - Languages. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943679 AB - "This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990's - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the 'Anglophone Problem' constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. The book details the various measures undertaken to exploit the Anglophone region's economy and marginalise its people. Principally the economic structures meant to facilitate self-reliant development were undermined and destroyed. Institutionalised discrimination took the form of the exclusion of Anglophones from positions of real authority, and depriving the region of any meaningful development. With the advent of multi-party politics, most Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly have made vocal demands for a return to a federation, in order to adequately guarantee their rights and recognition for them as a political and cultural minority. Actively encouraged by France, the Francophone-led regime in Cameroon has refused to yield to such demands, despite the grave danger of violent conflict and possible secession."--P. [4] of cover. ER -