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1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335). |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Student strikes -- Cameroon.
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Student strikes. |
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Cameroon. |
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College students -- Political activity -- Cameroon.
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College students -- Political activity. |
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Education, Higher -- Cameroon.
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Education, Higher. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-
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Nkwi, Walter Gam.
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Konings, Piet.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: University crisis and student protests in Africa. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG ; [Oxford, UK] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective, ©2012 9956727830 (OCoLC)811249605 |
| ISBN |
9789956728961 (electronic book) |
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9956728969 (electronic book) |
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9956727830 (electronic book) |
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9789956727834 (electronic book) |
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9956727075 |
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9789956727070 |
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9789956727070 |
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9956727075 |
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