| Description |
1 online resource (121 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- SDF: "Suffer Don Finish!" or "Suffer Dey (fo') Front!"?; Chapter 2 -- The party's roots: the North West Province origin & setting; Chapter 3 -- The post-1992 SDF: primal challenge becomes survival struggle; Chapter 4 -- Anglophones & Federalism; Chapter 5 -- Social Democracy in Africa & the SDF; Chapter 6 -- The party's branches: North West Province experience since 1992; Chapter 7 -- The SDF's current condition and future prospects; End Notes; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
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 roots structure, and prepares for a presidential ballot in 2011 that will likely determine its fate. The author conducted research four times in Cameroon, 1989-1999, focusing on the SDF since 1991, and maintains party contacts to the present. The book assesses its history and its prospects, covering the SDF in Af |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political science.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties.
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Political science
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789956715855 |
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9956715859 |
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