Literature list on the Anglophone crisis and Internet shutdown in Cameroon
Hashtag used on social media to get the
Internet back in Anglophone Cameroon.
The Anglophone regions in Cameroon, the North West and South West, have experienced violent clashes in recent months following plans of the government to impose the use of French language in schools and courts. Protests have led to a shutdown of the Internet in these regions, including Bamenda, the country’s largest anglophone city, causing economic losses to small businesses and entrepreneurs, as well as highly limited access to information.
ASCL Community fellow Francis Nyamnjoh, who is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town and a member of the editorial board of the Langaa Research and Publishing Group, compiled a list of relevant books providing background to the crisis. These publications are available in the ASCL Library:
Cameroon's predicaments / Peter Tse Angwafo
The Cameroon condition / George Ngwane
Cameroon political story : memories of an authentic eye witness / N.N. Mbile
Southern West Cameroon revisited / Anthony Ndi
The task of today and other seminal essays / Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
The 1961 Cameroon plebiscite : choice or betrayal / John Percival; Lalage Neal
Urgency of a new dawn : prison thoughts and reflections / Nfor N. Nfor
Cameroon's contemporary culture and politics : prospects and problems / Milton Krieger
The Cameroonian novel of English expression: an introduction / Shadrach A. Ambanasom
The Anglophone Cameroon predicament / Mufor Atanga
God the politician / Peterkins Manyong
In chains for my country : crusading for the British Southern Cameroons / Nfor N. Nfor
The Obasinjom warrior : the life and works of Bate Besong / Emmanuel Fru Doh
State of a Union : the half century of Cameroon's bicultural experience / Emmanuel Yenshu Vubo
Stifled justice in Cameroon : detained for six years without judgement / Rose Chia Fonchingong
Straddling the mungo : a book of poems in English & French / Peter Wuteh Vakunta
Under the broken scale of justice : the law and my times / Nyo' Wakai
The following books are not in our Library collection but can be ordered with African Books Collective:
Not Yet Damascus / Emmanuel Fru Doh
Perspectives on Written Cameroon Literature in English / Shadrach Ambanasom