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Book SynopsisThrough narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python’s Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the people of ex-British Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) seek alternatives to the cycles of repression and state terrorism turned into reprisal, retaliation and a genocidal war from 2016. This volume challenges the authorities over delimited territories and their inhabitants in states arbitrarily put together and held together by external power and control. The editor and contributors argue that the Westphalian sovereignty of authority as indivisible in postcolonial and other settings is unworkable, and does not last very long in plural societies put together and sustained with the use of force.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Change and History in the Destiny of the British Southern Cameroons
Nfor Ngala Nfor
Chapter Two: Decoding UNGA Res 1608 of April 21, 1961
Carlson Anyangwe
Chapter Three: Cameroun’s Presence in Ambazonia Has No Proper Basis in History, Politics, Law or in Any Other Respect
Carlson Anyangwe
Chapter Four: From Words to War: Representation, Discourse and Conflict in the Cameroons
Thomas Ayeh Jing
Chapter Five: The Anglophone Problem in the Cameroons: The Real and Disturbing Dimensions
Stanley Nzefeh
Chapter Six Persistent Regression in the Right to Development: Latent Trigger to the Southern Cameroons Pursuit of Sovereign Statehood
Carol Chi Ngang
Chapter Seven: Porcupine in a Python’s Throat
Fonkem Achankeng
Chapter Eight: Breaking the Silence: Before My Dead Body is Found Under the River Sanaga
Rev Fr. Gerald N. Njumbam
Chapter Nine: Blood, Tears, and the Keyboard: Women’s Participation in the Southern Cameroons’ Conflict
Lilian Lem Atanga
Chapter Ten: The 2019 Major National Dialogue and Decentralization Utopia as a Panacea to the Southern Cameroons’ conflict: Critical perspectives
Jean-Claude Ashukem
Chapter Eleven: Damning Role of Western Powers in the Ambazonian Conflict
Denis Atemnkeng
Chapter Twelve: Foreign Actors and Foreign Reactions to the Liberation Struggle in Southern Cameroons
John Fobanjong
Chapter Thirteen: From the Anger of Despair to Resistance and Self-Defense: The Trajectory of 21st Century Genocide in the Cameroons
Tatah Mentan
Chapter Fourteen: Cameroon’s Anti-Terrorism Law and the Trials of Ex-British Southern Cameroons’ Activists in a Military Tribunal
Patrick Agejoh
Chapter Fifteen: Invincible People of Ambazonia
Carlson Anyangwe
Appendix A: Important Dates in the Historical Development of the British Southern Cameroons Nation
Nfor Ngala Nfor
