Village Communities and the State. Changing Relations among the Maka of Southeastern Cameroon since the Colonial Conquest

Abstract

public legitimacy for their action in overthrowing the Government. Furthermore, to suggest that the situation was in any way like that in Uganda, as Roberts does, citing Ali Mazrui, is to do a great disservice to the long history of democratic elections in Sierra Leone, and the care with which those of I 967 were carried out in a context of intense political competition between the A.P.C. and S.L.P.P.