Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974
This paper studies how the Tokombéré Youth Centre, a secular place attached to the Roman Catholic Church, has led to the political formation of young people in Tokombéré, northern Cameroon. This is a place of socialisation that grew from the missionaries’ work, and which has politically guided youth...
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| description | This paper studies how the Tokombéré Youth Centre, a secular place attached to the Roman Catholic Church, has led to the political formation of young people in Tokombéré, northern Cameroon. This is a place of socialisation that grew from the missionaries’ work, and which has politically guided youth since 1974 through an awakening based on empowerment and self-reliance. The Centre, with its members structured within a “government,” has helped foster the values of citizenship through activities like Youth Weeks, Kirditude days, amateur journalistic writing in the newspaper Kudumbar , and film screenings. This substitution for the state has sometimes been a source of conflict, sometimes of co-existence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5023a1eb860d400d9b805482a32d97f92022-12-22T03:45:11ZengSAGE PublishingAfrica Spectrum0002-03971868-68692022-12-015710.1177/00020397221112437Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974Baskouda S.K. ShelleyThis paper studies how the Tokombéré Youth Centre, a secular place attached to the Roman Catholic Church, has led to the political formation of young people in Tokombéré, northern Cameroon. This is a place of socialisation that grew from the missionaries’ work, and which has politically guided youth since 1974 through an awakening based on empowerment and self-reliance. The Centre, with its members structured within a “government,” has helped foster the values of citizenship through activities like Youth Weeks, Kirditude days, amateur journalistic writing in the newspaper Kudumbar , and film screenings. This substitution for the state has sometimes been a source of conflict, sometimes of co-existence.https://doi.org/10.1177/00020397221112437 |
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| title_short | Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974 |
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