History Faculty Publications

Title

Post-Colonial Cameroon: Politics, Economy, and Society

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

6-1-2018

Abstract

In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people in post-colonial Africa through five lenses: politics, society and culture, economy, international relations, and migration. It places the nation’s contemporary challenges within a broader political, economic, and sociocultural context, and uses that to make recommendations for future directions. The book also celebrates areas in which the country has done well and calls on its citizens to build on those achievements. This volume is forward-looking and as such raises important questions about issues of development, ethnicity, wealth, poverty, and class.

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4985-6463-2

Publisher

Lexington Books

Place of Publication

Lanham, MD

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