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The Anglophone Question & Postcolonial Hegemony in Cameroon: The Past that Did Not Pass is a comprehensive collection of essays and analyses that explore the historical, colonial, postcolonial, legal, and international relations aspects of the politico-cultural and linguistic crisis between the English-speaking former British Southern Cameroons (now divided into the Northwest and Southwest regions), and the French-speaking majority of the former French Cameroon, la République du Cameroun. This conflict has shaken Cameroon to its core since the 1990s and led to an armed conflict between the government of Cameroon and Anglophone non-state armed groups. The premise of this book is that the Anglophone Question, the problematic situation of the muted English and Pidgin-speaking minority in French Cameroon, is one of the unfinished items of business of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles of 1919, that resolved the conflicts of that great conflict. The Anglophone conflict has been exacerbated by the authoritarian republican chieftaincy that was installed in Cameroon after independence and reunification. This neo-patrimonial, kleptocratic regime of Cameroon, has, with the support of its international partners, emphasized the argument of force rather than the force of argument, thereby creating yet another frozen African conflict.
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“The Anglophone Question & Postcolonial Hegemony in Cameroon cuts to the core of important questions at the intersection of colonial history, the United Nations’ framework for decolonization for former mandate territories, and postcolonial developments in Cameroon. With remarkable clarity and vision, the editor has assembled a wide array of distinctive contributions that are ethnographically dense and critical in situating and contextualizing the sociocultural, legal, and political complexities of nationalisms in the former British Southern Cameroons… A great addition to the growing scholarship on Anglophone Cameroon, this book is also a brilliant contribution to new writing on decolonial thought, new nationalist movements, and the politics of separatist conflicts in Africa in the new century. It is a useful resource for scholars, students, and social justice activists advocating for minority rights and marginalized communities.”
—Rogers Orock, Africana Studies, Lafayette College
Co-editor of Elites and the Politics of Accountability in Africa (2021)
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Preface
LYOMBE EKO
INTRODUCTION
The International Connections and Human Rights Dimensions of the Anglophone
Question & Crisis in Cameroon
LYOMBE EKO
FIFTEEN
The Nigerian Connection in the Anglophone Crisis
The Tension Between Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule
LYOMBE EKO
SIXTEEN
The French Connection in the Anglophone Crisis
Human Rights Rhetoric Versus Postcolonial Realities
LYOMBE EKO
SEVENTEEN
The Israeli Connection in the Anglophone Crisis
LYOMBE EKO
EIGHTEEN
The Resource Curse and the Anglophone Question
British Post-Brexit Partnership in Crimes Against Humanity in Cameroon
LYOMBE EKO
NINETEEN
The Swiss Connection in the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
Human Rights versus Capitalist Rites
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY
The Swiss Dissonance
European Federalists, African Anti-Federalist Bedfellow
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY-ONE
The Force of Argument Versus the Argument of Force
Anglophone Calls for Change and the Biya Regime’s Repression
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY-TWO
Kondengui Chronicles
Voices of Anglophone Political Prisoners in the Penal Den of Indignity
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY-THREE
The Human Victims of the Autocratic Republican Chiefdom
Anglophone Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY-FOUR
The Travails of Humanitarian Relief in the Midst of Crimes Against Humanity
The Case of the Ayah Foundation
AYAH AYAH ABINE & PAUL AYAH ABINE
TWENTY-FIVE
Francophone Voices of Resistance Against War and Human Rights Violations in the Anglophone Regions
LYOMBE EKO
TWENTY-SIX
Asserting Permanent Sovereignty over Ancestral Lands
The Bakweri Land Litigation Against Cameroon
NDIVA KOFELE-KALE
TWENTY-SEVEN
Trial Observation Report-Cameroon
Case of Nkongho Felix Agbor Balla, Fontem Neba and others Hearing 27 April 2017, Military Tribunal Yaoundé
MARINA BRILMAN
TWENTY-EIGHT
The Past That Did Not Pass
The Fallacies of “Living Together” and the English Language Press as Site of Anglophone Collective Memory
LYOMBE EKO
Epilogue: Summary of the Anglophone Problem in Pidgin Sayings and Proverbs
Anglophone Palava for Cameroon: Jam Pas Die Monkey Chop Pepper
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