Victor Le Vine's Shorter Cameroon Writings, 1961-2007

From his first research there in 1959 until shortly before his death in 2010, Victor Le Vine was a major Cameroon scholar. What he wrote during Cameroon's first half-century of independence carries implications for the years ahead. This volume introduces and presents eight of his short writings, 1961-2007, five never previously published. They demonstrate his mastery of the intricacies and the sweep of thecountry's governance history, and both his own and Cameroon'simportance for African Studies at large.