Exploring the politics of identity and ethnicity in state reconstruction in Cameroon

Social Identities

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 363-380

  Fonchingong, Charles C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNOPOLITICS; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; POLITICAL PROCESS; STATE BUILDING;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 29244435771     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630500356355     Document Type: Article

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