Post-Colonial Cameroon

Politics, Economy, and Society

By: Peter Ngwafu, Honoré Mimche, Carlson Anyangwe, Lotsmart Fonjong, Joseph Takougang (Editor)

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eText | 13 June 2018 | Edition Number 1

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In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people in post-colonial Africa through five lenses: politics, society and culture, economy, international relations, and migration. It places the nation's contemporary challenges within a broader political, economic, and socio-cultural context, and uses that to make recommendations for future directions. The book also celebrates areas in which the country has done well and calls on its citizens to build on those achievements. This volume is forward-looking and as such raises important questions about issues of development, ethnicity, wealth, poverty, and class.

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Amin and Takougang have put together an impressive roster of experts on Cameroon whose collective work is a first-rate, comprehensive, and critical assessment of Cameroon’s timid attempt to forge a nation out of diverse and competing linguistic, ethnic, and political institutions. The contributors provide varied perspectives that capture a perpetually restless country, but one teeming with enviable human and natural resources which its leadership has failed to summon. Indeed, the editors underscore the brief optimism that welcomed President Paul Biya following the resignation of his predecessor. The work concludes that the brutal repression of peaceful demonstrators and the rise of secessionists movement are direct consequences of the Biya decades and could be the defining event in the history of the country.