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- Snapshots: An X-ray of Cameroon�s Democracy, Governance and Unification
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
In the 1960s and 1970s, Third World governments prescribed and imposed a certain kind of journalism variously called �objective� journalism or �development journalism�. They understood this as journalism restricted to reporting �facts� as dished out by their propagandists and did not tolerate the questioning of government policy. By �development journalism�, they meant the mere reporting of government efforts to provide services, amenities and infrastructures and the singing of praises anytime a bridge was inaugurated, irrespective of whether it was well-built or whether the contract to build was awarded according to the norms of transparency and probity. This one-sided journalism was prevalent especially in state-owned media and media practitioners in the few private news publications that existed who did not toe the line were subjected to constant harassment and incarceration. However, with the coming of well-trained journalism graduates into the scene in the 1970s and the advent of global liberalization in the late 1980s and 1990s, daring journalists like Sam-Nuvala Fonkem thought it was time to take the bull by the horn and start taking a more critical look at government pronouncements, matching policy statements with real action in the field; in short, moving from �objective� journalism to interpretative and investigative journalism. This collection of Sam-Nuvala Fonkem�s writings is a sampling of the fruit of that new spirit to dare where angels hitherto feared to tread, to hold public officials to account and to expose the falsehood cached behind the political masquerade of the ruling class.
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xviii
- 6. End of the oil monopolies?
- pp. 21-24
- 7. Epitaph for Papa John
- pp. 25-28
- 13. Bakassi Blues: Random Notes
- pp. 47-50
- 15. Give Peter Acham a Chance
- pp. 53-56
- 17. Epitaph for Ebssiy
- pp. 61-64
- 25. From Unitary State to Annexation
- pp. 95-98
- 26. The Anatomy of Terrorism
- pp. 99-102
- 27. Terrorism and War: The Ugly Equation
- pp. 103-106
- 28. Poem by Sam-Nuvala Fonkem
- pp. 107-108
- 29. CDC and the Privatization Palaver (I)
- pp. 109-112
- 30. CDC And the Privatisation Palaver (II)
- pp. 113-116
- 31. The Invalidity of Unitary State
- pp. 117-122
- 32. Pros and Cons of Coalition Government
- pp. 123-126
- 34. The Omenology of St. Cloud
- pp. 129-130
- 35. Mamfe This Time Yesterday
- pp. 131-136
- 38. G.W. Bush Jnr’s Betrayal of Democracy
- pp. 145-148
- 40. Coalition Split Revisited
- pp. 155-158
- 42. Economic Sabotage
- pp. 165-168
- 43. Morning Safari Takes Us for a Ride
- pp. 169-170
- 44. Bridge over Troubled Waters
- pp. 171-176
- 45. Dan Kisob Goes Marching In
- pp. 177-182
- 46. Looking Beyond July 22
- pp. 183-188
- 47. Violence Begets Violence
- pp. 189-194
- 48. Lion Man, Lion’s Share
- pp. 195-198
- 49. Stop The Pretence! Boycott Parliament!!
- pp. 199-202
- 50. To Go or Not To Go
- pp. 203-206
- 51. Where Is The Oil Money?
- pp. 207-210
- 52. What Good Is University?
- pp. 211-214
- 53. Motions of Commotion
- pp. 215-218
- 54. How Far, 2011?
- pp. 219-222
- 55. When Silver Begins To Rust
- pp. 223-226
- 56. Street Power versus State Terrorism
- pp. 227-232
- 57. Red Carpet for Monkeys
- pp. 233-236
- 58. S.O.S Santa Isabelle
- pp. 237-240
- 59. The Soft Underbelly of the African Union
- pp. 241-244
- 60. The Travails of Southern Cameroons
- pp. 245-248
- 61. El-Bashir’s Problematic Intransigence
- pp. 249-252
- 62. 1st October Frenzy
- pp. 253-256
- 63. Soft-Selling Biya’s Ambition
- pp. 257-260
- 65. Pharaoh, Let My People Go!
- pp. 265-268
- 66. Technocracy, Technology and Technopoly
- pp. 269-272
- 67. No Peace without Justice
- pp. 273-276
- 68. Too Little, Too Late
- pp. 277-280
- 69. When Dialogue Is Meaningless
- pp. 281-284
- 71. The Bolloré Mafia and French Imperialism
- pp. 291-294
- 72. Bakassi and the Principle of Derivation
- pp. 295-298
- 73. Had Barack Obama Been Born a Cameroonian
- pp. 299-302
- 75. Agenda for Pope and Paul
- pp. 307-312
- 76. The Audacity of Obama
- pp. 313-316
- 77. 26 Years of Agony
- pp. 317-320
- 78. Memories of Miriam
- pp. 321-324
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956791804
Related ISBN(s)
9789956791774
MARC Record
OCLC
881137465
Pages
370
Launched on MUSE
2014-06-06
Language
English
Open Access
No