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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 socio-cultural 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.
This book makes a rare and original contribution on the history of
little documented internal land conflicts and boundary
misunderstandings in Cameroon, where attention has tended to focus
too narrowly on international boundary conflicts such as that
between Cameroon and Nigeria. The study is of the Bamenda
Grassfields, the region most plagued by land and boundary conflicts
in the country. Despite claims of common descent and cultural
similarities by most communities in the region, relations have been
tested and dominated by recurrent land and boundary conflicts since
the middle of the 20th Century. Nkwi takes us through these
contradictions, as he draws empirically and in general on his rich
historical and ethnographic knowledge of the tensions and conflicts
over land and boundaries in the region to situate and understand
the conflicts between Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh - the epicenter of
land and boundary - from c.1950s - 2009. Little if any scholarly
attention has focused on this all important issue, its pernicious
effects on the region notwithstanding. This book takes a bold step
in the direction of the social history of land and boundary
conflicts in Cameroon, and demonstrates that there is much of
scholarly interest in understanding the centrality of land and
boundaries in the configuration and contestation of human
relations. In his innovative and stimulating blend of history and
ethnography, Nkwi points to exciting new directions of paying
closer attention to relationships informed by consciousness on and
around land and boundaries.
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