Backgrounding Bakassi post-conflict confidence-building and peace-building strategies -- The Bakassi geo-strategic space -- Colonial impact on Bakassi Region -- Bakassi colonial agent based system conflicts -- The Bakassi identity problem : who is Bakassian and who is not? -- Demographic and socio-economic overview including peoples and languages of Bakassi and social interaction -- Maritime traffic and road network and trade in the Ndian mainland and the Bakassi peninsula -- Corporate social responsibility and peace-building process in the Bakassi peninsula -- Water and sanitation, health facilities, education, social infrastructure and services -- Social-economic profile of the Bakassi region -- Negotiating contiguities in the agent based directed system in the Bakassi post-conflict political economic space -- Bakassi confidence-building and peace-building action plan for the rehabilitation of Bakassi
Summary
This is a complex volume that combines survey data on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004 and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple meanings loaded with many conflicting emotional, spiritual, and material interests
