Political Science
Political Science
Diary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon
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Diary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon
Diary of a Dismissed Delegate is the personal story of the trials and travails of George Ngwane as a civil servant in Cameroon. With documented evidence in support, the book delves into the destructive machinations of the bureaucracy and sycophancy...
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Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning: A Special Focus on Zimbabwe
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Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning: A Special Focus on Zimbabwe
Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localized to the plateau...
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Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
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Development Perspectives from the South: Troubling the Metrics of [Under-]development in Africa
Not so long ago, The Economist described Africa as a hopeless continent. This damning description specifically referred to the development status of Africa. While the debate on the political and socio-economic [under-]development of Africa had been raging on prior to the Economist's...
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Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World: The Politics and Sociology of Development in Contemporary Africa
It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of...
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Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa: Beyond the Dichotomy (African Potentials)
In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa's involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar...
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Democratizing or Reconfiguring Predatory Autocracy? Myths and Realities in Africa Today
The celebrations that heralded democratic change in the 1990s in Africa have gradually faded into muffled cries of anger and attendant violence of despair. Almost everywhere on the continent so-called democratic leaders are openly subverting the people's will and disregarding...
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The Democracy Illusion in Mauritius
Once a beacon of democracy in Africa, Mauritius is today making headlines as a democracy in steep decline instead. This book dissects this decline through three lenses: local leadership mimicking inept foreign leadership (Chapter 1: Ineptocracy), colonial foundations naturally resistant...
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Democracy, Good Governance and Development in Africa
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging...
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Democracy for Breakfast. Unveiling Mirage Democracy in Contemporary Africa
Democracy is the faith that the process of experience is more important than any special result attained, so that special results achieved are of ultimate value only as they are used to enrich and order the ongoing process. Africans must...
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Democracy and Human Rights in Africa. the Politics of Collective Participation and Governance in Cameroon
Since the mid-1980s, there has been much federalism talk in Cameroon where federation (said to have been created in Foumban in 1961) had supposedly been 'overwhelmingly' rejected in 1972 by Cameroonians. 'Confusioncracy' is the one good term that could conveniently...
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Decolonizing Democracy from Western Cognitive Imperialism
There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the...
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Decolonising Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in an Age of Technocolonialism: Recentring African Indigenous Knowledge and Belief Systems
Positing the notions of coloniality of ignorance and geopolitics of ignorance as central to coloniality and colonisation, this book examines how colonialists socially produced ignorance among colonised indigenous peoples so as to render them docile and manageable. Dismissing colonial descriptions...
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Decentralisation and Spatial Rural Development Planning in Cameroon
Despite rapid urbanisation, Africa remains predominantly rural. This calls for decentralisation beyond the dominant concern by states and government with urban spaces. Rural areas, rural development and the future of rural settlements need to be understood and addressed in the...
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Decentralisation and Community Participation: Local Development and Municipal Politics in Cameroon
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Decentralisation and Community Participation: Local Development and Municipal Politics in Cameroon
This book explores how policies of decentralization and community participation adopted in Cameroon in 1996 have played out on the ground since 2004. These reforms were carried out amid economic crisis, structural adjustment and political upheaval. At the time, popular...
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De l'Atlantique à l'océan Virtuel: expériences maliennes (itinéraires des enseignants à travers les TIC) (French Edition)
Les enseignantes et enseignants, à travers leur appropriation pédagogique des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) se trouvent - quelquefois émerveillés - au milieu de l'Océan. Derrière eux, il y a tout ce qu'ils ont appris, et devant,...
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The Day God Blinked
The Day God Blinked x-rays the politico-economic and socio-moral life of a rich and resourceful country called Ewawa from 1982 to 2007. The country had been ruled by a dynamic and insightful miser known as the Old Man. But because...
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Crossing the Line in Africa: Reconsidering and Unlimiting the Limits of Borders within a Contemporary Value
This book explores a collective understanding of the perception and treatment of borders in Africa. The notion of boundary is universal as boundaries are also an important part of human social organization. Through the ages, boundaries have remained the 'container'...
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Criminal Law in Cameroon. Specific Offences
This is a pioneer, long overdue and truly original book that offers a unique, comprehensive and thorough exposition of the criminal law of this country by a leading scholar. This latest book by Professor Carlson Anyangwe adopts a thematic approach,...
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The Crabs of Bangui
Every man lives for himself, using his freedoms to attain his personal aims, and feels with his whole being that he can at any moment perform or not perform this or that action. The higher a man stands in the...
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Combats pour le Sens: Un Itineraire Africain (French Edition)
Published here in French by Cameroon based Langaa RPCIG, 'The Struggle for Meaning' is a landmark publication by one of African philosophy's leading figures, Paulin J. Hountondji, best known for his critique of ethno-philosophy in the late 1960s and early...
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Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese scholars in conversation
Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematize, unsettle and contest often taken-for- granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities...
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Campground
Through poetry and fiction that engage the reader's heart and mind, Loretta Burns explores the beauties, perils, and mysteries of day to day life. With a graceful simplicity of style and an often intimate voice, she represents a range of...
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The Campaign Trail
In an uncomplicated plot, The Campaign Trail takes its readers through the independence of a state in fiction, the introduction of a multiparty system, to its demise owing to poor governance and power struggle; this novel has a universal appeal...
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Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: Its History and Prospects as an Opposition Political Party (1990-2011)
Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (SDF) was among the watershed challenges c.1990 by sub-Saharan Africa's democratization forces against autocratic regimes, but it crested in 1992 and has subsided since. Yet the party survives, participates in the National Assembly, maintains a grass...
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Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development
This book deals with the important subject of governance and development. Even more significantly, the book has the merits of critically evaluating the concept of good governance in an African context, identifying the internal factors that impinge on good governance...
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Cameroon Political Story. Memories of an Authentic Eye Witness
The Cameroon Political Story is a long journey through the eyes and actions of the author himself. It is a mix between Mbile's memoirs, a bit of his biography and the Cameroon political story, heavily weighted in favour of that...
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The Cameroon Condition
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and...
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Biographies de la Radicalisation: Des messages cachés du changement social (French Edition)
La radicalisation est devenue un mot désignant notre monde en couleurs négatives. Ce livre cherche à comprendre ce que c'est que la radicalisation au Sahel et aux Pays-Bas ? Est-elle seulement négative? Quelle diversité de processus sociaux et politiques se...
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Barbed Forest
Barbed Forest draws from the socio-political character of society--specific societies sometimes. It navigates its way from the political to the familial and ultimately personal concerns of humankind before projecting the positive "humanist vision" of which the poet cum freedom songster...
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Assault on Paradise. Perspectives on Globalization and Class Struggles
Globalization is a term that describes the contradictory economic, political, and cultural processes of world capitalist integration. Although capitalism has been of a global character since the 1400s, the current phase of globalization is manifest by emergent transnational institutions, changing...
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