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Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence - Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon (Paperback)
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Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence - Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon (Paperback)
Series: New African Histories
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"In following the paths of Cameroonian nationalists where they
actually lead, Meredith Terretta's study does a number of things
that no previously published histories of Cameroon's decolonization
have done. " -African Studies Quarterly 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 administered as UN
Trusteeships after the Second World War, notions of international
human rights, the promise of Third World independence, Pan-African
federation, and national citizenship blended with local political
and spiritual practices that resurfaced as the period of European
rule came to a close. After French and British administrators
banned the party in the mid-1950s, UPC nationalists adopted
violence as a revolutionary strategy. In the 1960s, the nationalist
vision disintegrated. The postcolonial regime labeled UPC
nationalists "outlaws" and rounded them up for imprisonment or
execution as the state shifted to single-party rule in 1966.Nation
of Outlaws, State of Violence traces the connection between local
and transregional politics in the age of Africa's decolonization
and the early decades of the Cold War. Rather than stop at official
independence as most conventional histories of African nationalist
movements do, this book considers postindependence events as
crucial to the history of Cameroonian nationalism and to an
understanding of the postcolonial government that came to power on
1 January 1960. While the history of the UPC is a story that ends
with the party's failure to gain access to political power with
independence, it is also a story of the postcolonial state's
failure to become a nation.
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