Cameroon: Student activism, violence and the politics of higher education in Cameroon: a case study of the university of Buea (1993-2003)

Youth and Higher Education in Africa: The Cases of Cameroon, South Africa, Eritrea and Zimbabwe

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 9-33

  Fokwang, Jude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

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