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Autor/inn/en | Fru, Raymond Nkwenti; Wassermann, Johan |
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Titel | Constructions of Identity in Cameroonian History Textbooks in Relation to the Reunification of Cameroon |
Quelle | In: Journal of Educational Media, Memory and Society, 12 (2020) 2, S.57-76 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2041-6938 |
Schlagwörter | Self Concept; History Instruction; Textbooks; Content Analysis; Foreign Countries; French; English; Foreign Policy; Conflict; Cultural Differences; Acculturation; Cameroon; France; United Kingdom (England) |
Abstract | This article explores the representation of identity in selected Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonian history textbooks via their coverage of the reunification of Cameroon. A far-reaching effect of the 1916 Anglo-French partition of German Cameroon and of the reunification of the territory in 1961 is that, in spite of the plurality of precolonial identities, it is the legacies of Anglo-French colonial heritage that seem to be the overwhelming identity indicators in contemporary Cameroon. This content analysis found that the Anglophone history textbook presented a clear Anglophone identity which stood in conflict with the identity promoted by the Francophone textbook, which was characterized by national and colonial Francophone assimilationism. Such representations suggest that the Cameroonian nation state as a colonial geopolitical construct is more imagined than real. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |