The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon (Broché)

On the eve of the lifting of the trusteeship of the United Nations, Cameroon is a country, two territories, and two legacies from the French and British administrations since 1916. More than forty years of administration necessarily leaves an imprint of the language and specific socio-political mores on populations established in two distinct territories that the author identifies as Francophone Cameroon and Anglophone Cameroon.
The anglophone crisis is the political crisis in Anglophone Cameroon, which represents the fifth of the territory and population of the state of Cameroon. After establishing this reality, the book addresses the subject of the institutionalization of these two historical legacies. This state issue is at the heart of the political crisis that has repeatedly affected Anglophone Cameroon for decades, and has degenerated into an armed conflict since the end of 2017.
The author shows with great clarity how the transition from the federal form of the state to its unitary form was accompanied by a progressive deinstitutionalization of the Anglophone socio-political heritage with the loss of important prerogatives devolved historically to Anglophone Cameroon. The profound origin of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon would thus be in the opportunistic refusal of the institutional expurgation of this historical legacy.
This reading helps to understand the requirements to return to federalism, which is expressed now in both Anglophone and Francophone Cameroon. The book also clearly shows the progress of the current phase of the crisis since its beginning in October 2016. Whether in the form or the substance of the claims originally expressed by lawyers and Teachers of Anglophone Cameroon, or the alternation of cooperative and repressive strategies of the Cameroonian leadership, the reading of this book is particularly instructive.