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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ISBN
9781957296524
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
African Books Collective
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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