Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon / Meredith Terretta.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New African histories seriesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (384 pages) : mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444726 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nation of outlaws, state of violence.DDC classification:
  • 967.1103 23
LOC classification:
  • DT574 .T47 2014eb
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Contents:
God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance -- "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home -- Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions -- Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre -- The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building -- Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession.
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God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance -- "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home -- Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions -- Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre -- The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building -- Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession.

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