Southern Cameroons Archives

Addressing the armed conflict in Cameroon, constitutionally speaking

Current Issues, Writing7 March 2024

In the face of calls for the root causes of the Anglophone problem, cognisant of the fact that relative calm is being noticed in some areas in the Anglophone regions, considering the fact that a constitution should be a practicable document which seeks to find solutions to past problems, as well as attempts to forestall…

Renewing the Promise

Book Release, New Release26 June 2022

In this very riveting and well-researched essay, Julius Fondong ruminates on the continued relevance of the promises and principles that underpinned the creation of the post-colonial Cameroon nation-state, sixty years after unification in 1961.

Bearing Witness: A Protest in Poetry

Activism, Book Reviews, Community, Poetry, Writing5 August 2021

This compendium pulsates with rage. A rage that had been smouldering with the intensity of a welder’s blowtorch for decades, before erupting into a full-flared conflagration. It is a literary buffet of Cameroonian poets, driven by the galvanizing idea to comment on the cataclysmic events that saw a seismic change in the socio-political landscape of…

My Night in Captivity

Book Release, New Release11 January 2021

In this gripping, lucid and succinct account, Cardinal Tumi, the retired Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Douala, Cameroon, invites readers into the dreary night of his captivity by “Amba Boys” – so-called liberation fighters seeking the restoration of the erstwhile British Southern Cameroons.

Silence Warns: A Poem

Events, Poetry, Writing27 November 2020

Five published poets by Spears Books pulled together to compose “Silence Warns” in the wake of the brutal killing of 7 children in Kumba, South West Region, Cameroon.

Ceded at Dawn Book Launch Promo

Book Release, Books, Community, Events, Videos15 July 2020

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