Overview

Through 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.

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Author:   Fonkem Achankeng ,  Fonkem Achankeng ,  Carlson Anyangwe ,  Jean-Claude Ashukem
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.603kg
ISBN:  

9781793632289

ISBN 10:   1793632286
Pages:   310
Publication Date:   05 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Preface 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

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Porcupine in a Python's Throat is a collection of essays that diagnoses and prescribes an urgent but complex surgical operation in British Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia, a self-governing territory with recognized international boundaries in former British West Africa, that Great Britain and the United Nations considered 'expendable' at independence in 1961. This volume of very well-written essays tells the cruel experiences of the betrayal and colonial subjugation of the people of the region for decades, with a global conspiracy of silence. In an era of renewed rhetoric on freedoms, independence and democratization, the book echoes the clarion call of Frantz Fanon while being very immediate and pertinent to those non-nation-states which currently struggle for freedom and recognition. It is a great resource for those interested in postcolonial independence movements and highly recommended for scholars and practitioners in the fields of international relations, political science, peace and conflict studies, history, international law, sociology, human services, and security studies. Goodnews Osah Babcock University, Nigeria

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Fonkem Achankeng is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

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