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      Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

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      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN AND ALLEN ISAACMAN

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      Meredith Terretta, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon

      Nation of Outlaws,

      State of Violence

       Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition, and State Building in Cameroon

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      Meredith Terretta

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       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Terretta, Meredith, author.

      Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon / Meredith Terretta.

      pages cm — (New African histories)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8214-2069-0 (pb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8214-4472-6 (electronic)

      1. Cameroon—History—Autonomy and independence movements. 2. Cameroon—History—To 1960. 3. Cameroon—History—1960–1982. 4. Union des populations du Cameroun—History. 5. Bamileke (African people)—History—20th century. 6. Nationalism—Cameroon—History—20th century. I. Title. II. Series: New African histories.

      DT574.T47 2013

      967.1103—dc23

      2013030968

      TO ELI AND ALI-YOUN

      Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Abbreviations

       Introduction Layering Nationalism from Local to Global

       PART ONE GRASSFIELDS POLITICAL TRADITION AND BAMILEKE IDENTITY

       Chapter 1 God, Land, Justice, and Political Sovereignty in Grassfields Governance

       Chapter 2 “Bamileke Strangers” Make the Mungo River Valley Their Home

       PART TWO BAMILEKE NATIONALISTS CLAIM INDEPENDENCE (LEPUE) FOR THE NATION (GUNG)

       Chapter 3 Troublesome, Rebellious, Outlawed

       International Politics and UPC Nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo Regions

       Chapter 4 Nationalists or Traitors?

       Bamileke Chiefs and Electoral Politics in the Year of Loi-Cadre

       PART THREE UPC NATIONALISTS GO GLOBAL

       Chapter