Cameroon: Politics and Society in Critical Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761825916 ISBN 13: 9780761825913

Publisher: University Press Of America, 2003

Synopsis

Cameroon Pulling together a group of Cameroon experts and Africanists, this book is a critical, comprehensive assessment of post-colonial Cameroon's struggle at nation-building, governance, democracy and economic development in a multiethnic state and society in which even 'non-political' issues (e.g., football or soccer and popular music) are politicized.

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Review:

Gros has put together research from a group of University of Missouri St. Louis, Cameroon, and other American and African scholars. The volume is less about cameroon today than it is about the forces.... that have shaped Cameroon. This makes the book less time sensitive than most works on today's Africa and as such a valuable tool for understanding contemporary Cameroon. Summing Up: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. General readers and lower-division graduates through graduate students interested in a representative work on postcolonial Cameroon.--R.M. Fulton, Northwest Missouri State University "CHOICE "

Synopsis:

Political scholars in Cameroon, elsewhere in Africa, and the US look at how the problems of the continent as a whole are encapsulated in the country. Among the problems they identify are underdevelopment amidst plenty, Structural Adjustment Programs and poverty, a flawed transition to democracy, and the politicization of football and popular music.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761825916
• ISBN 13: 9780761825913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Gros Jean-Germain