University crisis and student protests in Africa : the 2005-2006 university students' strike in Cameroon / edited by Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Walter Gam Nkwi & Piet Konings.

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TextPublication details: Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG ; [Oxford, UK] : Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 335 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789956728961
9956728969
9956727830
9789956727834
9956727075
9789956727070

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: University crisis and student protests in Africa.DDC classification:

370.96711 22

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LA1853.7 .U55 2012

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Contents:

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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335).

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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.

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