This is a complex volume that combines a good deal of survey data
on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based
insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book
is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004
and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive
information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi
Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple
meanings loaded with many conflicting emotional, spiritual and
material interests. Native inhabitants are systematically
disinherited of their ancestral cultural heritage and
socio-economic resources. They are bastardised, humiliated and
scammed by unscrupulous opportunists who deliberately misidentify
them with intentions of dispossessing them of their ancestral lands
and natural resources. Overall the author is in sympathy with the
Bakassi who he argues have been marginalised and neglected by the
Cameroon state. In particular, the value of the indigenous
communities in terms of local economies as well as securing this
vital border area has not been recognised and various external
groups have been either allowed or encouraged to settle there to
both the detriment of local populations and to the security of the
region.
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