Catholic Missionary Work and “Political” Support: The Tokombéré Youth Centre Since 1974

IF 1.9 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Africa Spectrum Pub Date : 2022-07-18 DOI:10.1177/00020397221112437

Baskouda S. K. Shelley

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Abstract

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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天主教传教工作和“政治”支持：托孔贝青年中心自1974年以来

这篇论文研究了tokomb 青年中心(一个附属于罗马天主教会的世俗场所)是如何导致喀麦隆北部tokomb 青年的政治形成的。这是一个从传教士的工作中成长起来的社会化的地方，自1974年以来，它在政治上引导年轻人通过基于赋权和自力更生的觉醒。该中心的成员由“政府”组成，通过青年周、Kirditude日、《Kudumbar》报纸的业余新闻写作和电影放映等活动，帮助培养公民价值观。这种对国家的替代有时是冲突的根源，有时是共存的根源。

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Africa Spectrum AREA STUDIES-

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4.50

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10.00%

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6 weeks

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