Understanding confusion in africa the politics of multiculturalism and nation-building in cameroon - Fossungu, Peter Ateh-Afac (Langaa RPCIG, 2013)
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction; Cameroon and Africa; Book's Driving Forces and Importance; The Central Arguments; Chapter 1 -- Advanced Multiculturalism and The February Story: The Politics Of National (Dis) Unity In The Hinge OfAfrica; Issues Experts Want Addressed; Advanced Multiculturalism and the Palm Wine School ofDeconstruction; Defining Culture; Is Culture Without History Culture?; The February Story: Disuniting By Uniting?; The Intimacy of the 1972 and 1984 Name Changes; Disuniting By Uniting One History/Culture?; The 1984 Name or History Case
The 1985/83 Education CaseChapter 2 -- The Perfect Nation is an Anathema toMulticulturalism; (The Usual) Democracy and Collective Participation; Kontchoumeterized Collective Participation and the Case ofThe Educational Systems; Minority Politics and Self-Determination in a UnitaryCentralized State?; The Minority Exchange; The Territory and Population of the Minority; The Educational Systems Are Different But Not Differentand At War?; The Constitution and the Education Domain; The Philosophy of the Education Law
Chapter 3 -- The One-Party System (Or 'Pluralistic Democracy') Isan Abomination to MulticulturalismMonosity: Prerequisite for 'Pluralistic Democracy'?; Sexing Patriotism and Equality: The Illustrative Case of the1997 Legislative and Presidential Elections; The 1990 Multipartism Law and the Irreplaceable One-Party System; On The Justification of the Single-Party State; Deconstructing the Multipartism Law; Chapter 4 -- Colonialism And The Leadership Mess In Africa: When History Is Not Historical -- From Cameroon ToNjangawatar?; On The Importance of History to Development
Theories Drawn From Name-Changing JustificationsFrom Cameroon to Njangawatar?; "Intellectuals in Politics": Questioning the Discoverer Theory?; From Pidgin to Njangawatok?; From Victoria to Limbe: Biculturalism in Cameroon?; From Bilingualism/Bijuralism to Ngoa-Lingualism/Unijuralism; The Purpose and Objectives of Education plus Epsi asPreventing Biculturalism; Chapter 5 -- Leadership Non-Charisma and Non-Challenge of Historic Trivia: The Uniting Of One History Is Why Cameroon Is Not Championing In the DevelopmentBusiness in Africa; Understanding the Political Economy of Cameroon
Original Quality of Cameroon's EnvironmentThe Natural Qualities Of The Cameroon People; Health and Intelligence in Development in Cameroon; Confusioncracy Passing for Balanced Development; The Anglophone Factor and Absence of Known Rules; Turning the English-Speaking into the French; Operating Without Local Governments and an IndependentUmpire; Stifling Industrialization; Developing with Confusing and Incomplete Rules and Laws; The Role of Agriculture and Poverty; Closing Observation; Conclusion; References; Back cover