Review

Among English-speaking historians, the insurgency promoted by the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) since the late 1950s has not received the same degree of sustained scholarly attention as other coeval African armed liberation movements. But Meredith Terretta's brilliant monograph does more than fill a gap in the literature. Students of the decolonization era have long pondered the relationship between local and national dynamics in shaping African political commitments. Few, however, have so far proved able to supplement these traditional foci of reflection with a further layer of historical analysis. Terretta's greatest merit—and this book's most significant contribution to the field—lies precisely in teasing out the international dimension of the UPC nationalism and its entanglements with more commonly explored arenas of political action.