Entertaining repression: Music and politics in postcolonial Cameroon

African Affairs

Volumn 104, Issue 415, 2005, Pages 251-274

  Nyamnjoh, Francis B ^a   Fokwang, Jude ^b  

^a Information and Communication Centre Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa   (Senegal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; MUSIC; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; POLITICAL POWER;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 17844379491     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adi007     Document Type: Article

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