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1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 -- Irrepressible Dissent: The University as the Bedrock forPolitical Transformation in Cameroon; Chapter 2 -- Scholarship Production in Cameroon: Interrogating aRecession; Chapter 3 -- The University of Yaoundé as Ground Zero for the 2005Student Protests in Cameroon; Chapter 4 -- Protest on the Second Front: The University of Buea Joinsthe Fray; Chapter 5 -- The Hurricane of Student Strike Action Sweeps into Doualaand Dschang; Chapter 6 -- Use of Force and Loss of Life and Property at the Universityof Buea |
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Chapter 7 -- Reaching Accord: Negotiating Resolution at the Universityof YaoundéChapter 8 -A Bumpy Road to an Untenable Resolution in Buea; Chapter 9 -Civil Society Actors Weigh in on the University Strike; Chapter 10 -Epilogue to a Strike; References; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in the universities and society as a whole, including the right to express their views, organise in student unions and participate in university management. This book focuses on a recent violent strike action in Cameroon's state universities, with special attention to the University of Buea the only Eng |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed Oct., 18, 2012) |
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Print version record |
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Student strikes -- Cameroon
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College students -- Political activity -- Cameroon
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Education, Higher -- Cameroon
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African history.
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EDUCATION -- Comparative.
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EDUCATION -- History.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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College students -- Political activity
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Education, Higher
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Student strikes
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Cameroon
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-
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Nkwi, Walter Gam.
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Konings, Piet.
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| ISBN |
9789956728961 |
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9956728969 |
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9956727830 |
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9789956727834 |
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9956727075 |
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9789956727070 |
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