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- The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it. These battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone-dominated governments to destroy their much prided educational system in the name of 'national integration'. When Southern Cameroonians re-united with La R?publique du Cameroun in 1961, they claimed that they were bringing into the union 'a fine education system' from which their Francophone compatriots could borrow. Instead, they found themselves battling for decades to save their way of life. Central to their concerns and survival as a community is an urgent need for cultural recognition and representation, of which an educational system free of corruption and trivialisation through politicisation is a key component.
Table of Contents
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- Preface to the Second Edition
- pp. vi-ix
- Preface to the First Edition
- pp. x-xi
- Chapter Five - The Board Is Here But...
- pp. 177-225
- Chapter Eight - Lessons from the GCE Affair
- pp. 298-312
- Chapter Nine - The Problem
- pp. 313-341
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956716104
Related ISBN(s)
9789956558155
MARC Record
OCLC
636131964
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No