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Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon
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- Creator
- Meredith Terretta
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2014
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- xiii, 367 pages : maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0821444727, 9780821444726, 9780821420690, 0821420690
- OCLC
- ocn849196367, ocn869775324
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance -- "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home -- Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions -- Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre -- The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building -- Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession