Politics & International Affairs

This category's books

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  State of a Union: The Half Century of Cameroon’s Bicultural Experience

  2012, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
  The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners – (...)
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  Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Paul Nchoji Nkwi
  This book presents a series of reflections by Cameroon scholars on a variety of topics associated with regional balance and national integration. The different reflections look for answers to some burning questions of the day such as: Where are we coming from? Where are we going? How are we going where we are going? Have the different state ideologies offered appropriate solutions to the quest for a strong, united, stable and prosperous nation-state? If not, what has gone wrong and why? (...)
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  Cameroon Political Story: Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Nerius Namaso Mbile
  The Cameroon Political Story is a long journey through the eyes and actions of the author himself. It is a mix between Mbile’s memoirs, a bit of his biography and the Cameroon political story, heavily weighted in favour of that part of the Republic formerly identified as Southern Cameroons, later West Cameroon, now South West and North West Regions. The story is told in the interest of the Cameroonian youth and scholar who have often complained of the inadequate recording by political (...)
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  The Politics of Neoliberal Reforms in Africa: State and civil society in Cameroon

  2011, author(s)-editor(s) Piet Konings
  Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions and western states, to pursue this agenda as a necessary precondition for the receipt of development aid. What is particularly striking in Africa, however, is that neoliberal experiments there have displayed such remarkable diversity. This may be due not only to (...)
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  The New World Order Ideology and Africa: Understanding and Appreciating Ambiguity, Deceit and Recapture of Decolonized Spaces

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) Tatah Mentan
  The New World Order Ideology expressed in the form of neoliberal globalization has been used by numerous politicians, scholars and media men through the ages. It refers to a worldwide conspiracy to effect complete and total control over the planet through money farming. This book examines the case of Africa put directly on the chopping board as client states by this ideology – when less hampered by idealistic slogans as human rights, raising living standards and democratization – to better (...)
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  I Spit on their Graves: Testimony Relevant to the Democratization Struggle in Cameroon

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) Godfrey B. Tangwa
  The essays collected in this volume are, by the depth of their analysis and the breath of their vision, indeed ‘No Trifling Matter’. They are a chronicle of the events in contemporary Cameroonian society, especially as concerns the conduct of public affairs therein. Over and above its relevance for our own time, this chronicle will, in the decades that lie ahead, serve as a rich source of information, opinion and comment which future generations, anxious to understand the making of an era (...)
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  The State in Africa: An Analysis of Impacts of Historical Trajectories of Global Capitalist Expansion and Domination in the Continent

  2010, author(s)-editor(s) Tatah Mentan
  This book critically analyzes the complex relationship between the African state and capitalist globalization. It describes in great detail the significant effects of the various historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion on the nature and functions of the African state while focusing on the present triumph of globalized neo-liberalism on the African continent. The history of the state in Africa has been misread and misinterpreted through the Eurocentric convictions of European (...)
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  Gender, Discourse and Power in the Cameroonian Parliament

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Lilian Lem Atanga
  This book investigates gender and power relations in the Cameroonian parliament using a critical discourse analytical approach, which focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. The study identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes (...)
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  Prisoner without a Crime. Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo’s Cameroon

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Albert Mukong
  Doughty human rights crusader, Albert Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon’s worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This book details his personal account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically dished out to dissidents who have dared to stand their ground. Until his death in 2004, Albert Mukong was without doubt, Anglophone Cameroon’s most conspicuous political prisoner, spokesperson and (...)
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  Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today

  2009, author(s)-editor(s) Tatah Mentan
  The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people’s will and disregarding national constitutions. Ordinary people find themselves removed from the centres of power, marginalized and reduced to helpless and hopeless onlookers as political leaders, their friends and families noisily enjoy the (...)

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