Negotiating an Anglophone Identity - A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon

This study of Cameroon captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the growing disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. It focuses on the resistance of Anglophone Cameroonians to nationhood, which is being pursued to the detriment of minority identities.

About the author

Piet Konings, Ph.D. (1977), is a senior researcher at the Afrika-Studiecentrum in Leiden. He has published extensively on Ghana and Cameroon, including The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana (Kegan Paul International, 1986) and Labour Resistance in Cameroon (James Currey, 1993).
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Ph.D. (1990) in Sociology of Communication, University of Leicester, is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Botswana. He has published extensively on Cameroon, and among his recent publications are chapters in: Henrietta Moore & Todd Sanders (eds) Magical Interpretations, Material Realities (Routledge, 2001).

Product details

• Authors: Piet Konings, Francis B Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Nyamnjoh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2003
• EAN: 9789004132955
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13295-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Series: Afrika-Studiecentrum
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)