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Online-Ressource (658 p)
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9789956791019
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This book compromises 26 well-researched essays in honour of Professor Verkijika G. Fanso, who retired in 2011 after over 36 years of distinguished service at universities in Cameroon. Contributors include colleagues, former students and close collaborators in Cameroon and beyond. Contributions cover a wide range of issues related to the contested histories, politics and practices of boundaries and frontiers in Africa. These are themes on which Fanso has researched, published and taught extensively, and earned international recognition as a leading scholar. The book explores, inter alia, indig
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Notes on Contributors; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Man: Professor Verkijika G. Fanso; Part I - Conventional Boundaries ofStates & Polities; Chapter 1 - Boundary Dynamics and the Search for Geopolitical Space: The Case of the Mbororo in the North WestRegion of Cameroon; Abstract; Résumé; Introduction; Conceptual Framework; Historical Background; Boundaries between the Mbororo and Indigenous Peoples; Geographical Boundaries; Socio-Cultural Boundaries; Economic Boundaries (Artificial); Political Boundaries
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The North West Mbororo and the Search for Geopolitical SpaceProtest Letters and Memoranda; Formation of Pressure Groups; Mbororo Land Ownership; Overt Confrontations; The Search for Ethnic Citizenship; Bridging the Boundaries and the Quest for Peaceful Coexistence; The Respect of the legacies of the "Early" and "Late Settlers"; The Mbororo should adopt well-defined GeographicalBoundaries; Permanent Genuine Dialogue and Education among the DiversePeoples; Unity in Diversity; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Chapter 2 - Rituals in Traditional Boundary SettlementsIn the Cameroon Grassfields
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AbstractRésumé; Introduction; The Cameroon Grassfields; The Ahreankeng Ritual Boundary Pact; Ritual Pacts Involving Essoh-Attah, Lebang and other Polities; Ritual Boundary Pacts in the Cameroon Western Grassfields; Expansionist States and Ritual Pacts; Conclusion; Sources Consulted; Chapter 3 - Colonial Boundaries and Disintegration: A Study of the Boki 'Nation' Of the Cross River Region of Cameroonand Nigeria; Abstract; Résumé; Introduction; Location of Boki; Methodology; The Germans Confront the Bokis; British Administration in Boki; Colonial Boundary and the Dismemberment of the Bokis
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ConclusionReferences; Chapter 4 - Issues in the Cession of the Bakassi Peninsula toCameroon; Abstract; Introduction; Realism, Idealism and Territorial Disputes in InternationalSystem; Boundary Disputes in the International System; The Bakassi Peninsula Crisis in History; Issues Generated by the ICJ Judgment; Treaties in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999; Domestic and International Obligations; Oil Resources and the Bakassi Conflict; Conclusion; References; Chapter 5 - Cameroon-Nigeria Dispute over the Bakassi Peninsula:A Specimen of Collective Peace Approach; Abstract
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RésuméIntroduction; Prologue to the Conflict; The Conflict; The evolution of the Conflict; The Peace Efforts; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6 - The Demise of European Colonialism and the Emergence of Boundary Conflicts in the BamendaGrasslands of Cameroon; Abstract; Résumé; Introduction; Definition and Concepts; Boundary Issues Precipitating the Collapse of EuropeanColonization; Case Studies of Boundary Conflicts in Postcolonial BamendaGrasslands; Bali Nyonga Versus Bawock; Mbessa Versus Oku; Postcolonial Boundary Conflict Prevention and Resolution; Recommendations; Conclusion
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789956791026
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789956791019
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Boundaries and History in Africa : Issues in Conventional Boundaries and Ideological Frontiers
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