Carrefour de la joie: Popular deconstruction of the African postcolonial public sphere

Africa

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 265-294

  Ndjio, Basile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL POWER; POST-COLONIALISM; VIOLENCE;

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

EID: 27544453498     PISSN: 00019720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3366/afr.2005.75.3.265     Document Type: Article

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