Collection tudes africaines
dirige par Denis Pryen et son quipe
Forte de plus de mille titres publis ce jour, la collection tudes africaines fait peau neuve. Elle prsentera toujours les essais gnraux qui ont fait son succs, mais se dclinera dsormais galement par sries thmatiques : droit, conomie, politique, sociologie, etc.
Dernires parutions
Jacques KABEYA I. TENDA, Entreprises publiques, en Rpublique Dmocratique du Congo, La ncessit dun cadre de bonne gouvernance axe sur la responsabilisation et la performance, 2018.
Diensia Oris-Armel BONHOULOU, Le terrorisme international existe-t-il en Afrique noire ? , Essai, 2018.
Augustin RAMAZANI BISHWENDE, Di-Kuruba Dieudonn MUHINDUKA (dir.), Les Bavira entre tradition et modernit , 2018.
Claude KAYEMBE-MBAYI, Verrous et contrles constitutionnels en Afrique. Pour des mcanismes efficients , 2018.
Marie Romuald POUKA POUKA, Politiques publiques et PME au Cameroun. Les impacts de la Bourse de sous-traitance et de partenariat sur la performance des PME dans le secteur industriel , 2018.
Issofou NJIFEN, Allocation des ressources humaines et stratgies des acteurs sur le march du travail, Concept de surqualification et vidence empirique au Cameroun , 2018.
Marie Dsire, SOL AMOUGOU, Minoration linguistique, Causes, consquences et thrapie , 2018.
Michel MOUKOUYOU KIMBOUALA, Le rle des classes nominales dans le fonctionnement des langues bantoues. Le cas du kibeembe, une variante du kikongo , 2018.
Saikou Oumar BALDE, lections et dmocratie locale en Guine , 2018.
Caroline PACHECUS, Mdias, mondialisation et diversit culturelle. Le cas de lAfrique subsaharienne , 2018.
Anicet Cyrille NGOULOUBI et Jules LUBOYA KATABA, Management des salaires. Thories et applications , 2018.
Sylvain Sorel KUATE TAMEGHE, La justice, ses mtiers, ses procdures, OHADA, 2 e dition , 2018.
Title
BOUOPDA Pierre KAM
The anglophone crisis in Cameroon
Translated from French by Florence Muluh Tezeh
Preface by Barrister Akere Tabeng Muna
Copyright
Of the same author
La qute de libration politique au Cameroun , LHarmattan, 2006
Les crises majeures de la prsidence Paul Biya , LHarmattan, 2007
De la rbellion dans le Bamilk , LHarmattan, 2008
Cameroun, Du protectorat vers la dmocratie, 1884-1992 , LHarmattan, 2008
Les meutes du Renouveau , LHarmattan, 2009
Les handicaps coloniaux de lAfrique noire , LHarmattan, 2010
Kam Samuel Aux fondements du rgime politique camerounais , LHarmattan, 2013
Lindpendance du Cameroun, Gloire et naufrage politique de lUPC , LHarmattan, 2015
Lhistoire politique du Cameroun au XX e sicle , LHarmattan, 2016
LHarmattan, 2018
5-7, rue de lEcole-Polytechnique, 75005 Paris
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr
EAN Epub : 978-2-336-84424-4
Dedication
To my Compatriots
from Anglophone Cameroon
FOREWORD
On Friday September 22, 2017, the anglophone crisis reached a paroxysm in the violent confrontation between protesters and police in the Northwest and Southwest regions. The day after this deadly event, I reacted by a Post in our WhatsApp group Cannibale that brings together the members and friends of this Caf littraire . This post, entitled Pril en la demeure :
Pril en la demeure (Danger in the house)
What is happening right now in the Northwest and in the Southwest is sad and revolting.
In our frequent conversations on History, my father often liked to remind me that in his book devoted to the History of Charles IX of Sweden, Voltaire observes that the greatest calamities of History were nothing but the work of famous ignorant men.
Thats what actually inspires me with regards to what is going on in our Anglophone regions.
When postures and emotion determine political action in a crisis situation, there is a danger in the house.
Yesterdays events in the Northwestern and Southwestern regions clearly reveal the existence and rooting of an anglophone political consciousness in search of institutional consecration.
Faced with this obvious fact, opting in advance for the institutional status quo, is to choose repression, that is to say, the militarization of anglophone regions.
This is done, in most cases, with armed units commanded by francophone officers and NCOs.
This is the Colonial trap in which we are.
Public order may reign if militarization is generalized.
But anglophone political consciousness will become more rooted with a lasting alteration of national sentiment.
The alternative is the initiative of a political dialogue in perspective of a democratic rebuilding of our institutional pact.
Is this prospect so formidable as for preference to be given to the political, economic, social and human tragedies of the current crisis ?
We must be able to serenely dialogue among ourselves to get out of this crisis and this atmosphere of political and social oppression already reinstated in our country at the expense of the distinctive achievements of the Renouveau (The New Deal) .
If the initiative for this political dialogue is not quickly taken, there is a risk of an internationalization of the solution to this crisis in accordance with the wishes of the separatists.
There is a danger in the house.
The temptation of the status quo ante will certainly strengthen following the dramatic events of Yesterday.
Ignorance, arrogance, deafness and Self-sufficiency are indeed the dominant postures and traits of those who have been in charge of the operational management of this Anglophone crisis since its inception.
It was after these events and this Post that I decided to write the book you have in your hands.
Bouopda Pierre Kam
PREFACE
The singularity of this precious book entitled The Anglophone crisis in Cameroon lies in its concern for accuracy based on proven historical facts and collected from the proximity of the events that marked the contemporary history of Cameroon.
Such an approach is important in the current context where all kinds of amateurs try to rewrite history, driven by openly expressed sentiments and badly veiled agendas. The book authored by Bouopda Pierre Kam is of invaluable chronological and historical value, and also because of the links he establishes with the sad events that are happening in Cameroon today. The author accurately demonstrates that a simple knowledge and understanding of the history of our country is essential in any effort to find a solution to what has been for decades a latent Anglophone problem which subsequently turned into an Anglophone crisis to the point where the possibility of a civil war can no longer be seen as a distant reality.
This book, which is easy to read, has as its basis two territories that constitute what is today Cameroon. He paints in broad terms the notable differences in their colonial cultural heritages, as reflected in their respective institutions. It then describes the erosion of anglophone culture and the resistance organized by Anglophones, before examining the consequences of the different mutations.
