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Understanding Confusion in Africa. the Politics of Multiculturalism and Nation-Building in Cameroon: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Autor Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2013
Cameroon is often considered to be Africa's legendary pathfinder. This book argues essentially that Cameroon cannot competently champion African unity and progress until it can correctly pursue its own multicultural nation-building. Cameroon's success continental-wise would depend on its theory and practice of multiculturalism, as particularly reflected in (1) the rejoicing in its historical diversity and the harmonious co-existence of its Systems of Education which must, of necessity, be linked to (2) effective federalization or decentralization of uniquely cultural matters. Critically examining history and education as components of culture, and therefore, of multiculturalism, the book makes some bold recommendations while demonstrating how nation-building is meaningless without the people's authentic history. It argues that Cameroon national culture cannot be a national culture without embodying the distinct culture of the English-speaking minority. Anything else is nothing but deliberate confusion of assimilation for multiculturalism, a confusion that is heavily tied to the country's phoney independence. Hinging on education (and its associates of bilingualism and bijuralism), the book demonstrates that Cameroon's over-sung cultural dualism is a charade, epitomized by the 1998 Education Law. Rather than reaffirm Cameroon's biculturalism as it superficially avows, Cameroon's purported cultural dualism is really out to efface any semblance of cultural or educational dualism that may still be resisting assimilation. The continuous and persistent employment of terms such as biculturalism, bilingualism and bijuralism in legal texts in Cameroon is only to confuse the international community, especially from seeing exactly the kind of 'ethnic cleansing' which is taking place in the country.
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ISBN-13: 9789956728534
ISBN-10: 9956728535
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Langaa RPCID

Notă biografică

Peter Ateh-Afac Fossungu is presently an independent researcher in Canada. He holds a host of university degrees, including a Master of Arts in Political Science from University of Windsor (2014). He has taught law in Cameroonian universities for a number of years. He has published extensively on various aspects of society in Africa.