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Author Terretta, Meredith.

Title Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence : Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (384 pages)
Series New African Histories
New African histories series.
Contents Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Blending Local and Global Politics; Cameroon: An Exceptional Colonial History?; Setting the Stages: The Focal Points; A History of UPC Nationalism; Sources and Methodology; God, Land, Justice, and Political Sovereignty in Grassfields Governance; The Formation of Grassfields Chieftaincies; Lepue and Gung; Magic and Mysticism; God, Land, and Sacred Sites; The French Administration's; Customary Laws; "Bamileke Strangers" Make the Mungo River Valley Their Home; Grassfielders in the Mungo River Valley; The Ethnicization of Land Ownership
Bamileke-ness, Settlement, and PoliticalEthnicity and Political Processes; Troublesome, Rebellious, Outlawed; Greater France or Sovereign Nation; The UPC' s (Inter)national Political Platform; The Mungo Region; Bamileke Chiefs; French Strategies; The Uprisings of May 1955; Nationalists or Traitors?; An Outlawed Political Party; Baham as a Theater; The National Union, Bamileke Chiefs; Parliamentary Elections; Political Interpretations; The Maquis at Home, Exile Abroad; The Maquis; Grassfields Spiritual Technology in the Maqui s; The Mungo Region Maquis; Exile
The ALNK-UPC Army under a Centralized CommandThe Maquis "Court"; "Here, God Does Not Exist"; State Action against; Public Executions; The Gray Zone; Conclusion; Pan-African Federation; The Cold War; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence is the first extensive history of Cameroonian nationalism to consider the global and local influences that shaped the movement within the French and British Cameroons and beyond. Drawing on the archives of the United Nations, France, Great Britain, Ghana, and Cameroon, as well as oral sources, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence chronicles the spread of the Union des populations du Cameroun (UPC) nationalist movement from the late 1940s into the first postcolonial decade. It shows how, in the French and British Cameroon territories admin
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Subject Bamileke (African people) -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Cameroon -- History -- 20th century
Bamileke (African people)
HISTORY / Africa / Central.
Nationalism
SUBJECT Cameroon -- History -- 1960-1982. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008005420
Cameroon -- History -- To 1960. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008009828
Cameroon -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85019140
Subject Cameroon
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0821444727
9780821444726