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    There Was Another Country: Popular Resistance, Resurrection or Betrayal of a People
    There Was Another Country: Popular Resistance, Resurrection or Betrayal of a People
    There Was Another Country: Popular Resistance, Resurrection or Betrayal of a People
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    There Was Another Country: Popular Resistance, Resurrection or Betrayal of a People

    By W. Forje

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    In this comprehensive, well-reasoned, critical, richly documented and boldly argued account on the Anglophone/Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia crisis, John Forje, a foremost scholar of identity politics in Cameroon, offers insightful explorations and explanations of histories and cultures of telling truth to power that have come to be associated with the people of the English-speaking region of Cameroon. The book offers realistic perspectives for the reinstitution of justice, equality, and democratic governance in a country of plenty but lavishing in endemic underdevelopment. Forje argues, among other things, that the current Anglophone crisis is the exhibition of one reality: that more than half-a-century after independence and unification, most Cameroonians are grossly disillusioned with their leaders. The country has had only two presidents since independence - Ahmadou Ahidjo and Paul Biya, with the latter occupying the presidency for 40 years since 1982 and counting. If something concrete is not undertaken now, the cleavages of division would widen to a dangerous end. Dark clouds hang over the future of the country. Uncertainty about national unity and stability is hardly a solid foundation for a country aspiring to be an emerging polity by 2035. There is an urgent need for a broader dimension of political dispensation in Cameroon. The book calls for proper soul-searching, critical analysis, and a new, comprehensive and visionary mindset to build a new country out of the ashes of the existing crumbling or failed polity. The need to re-rail Cameroon on the democratic train and on the path of sustainable development cannot be overemphasized.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLangaa RPCIG
    Release dateAug 11, 2021
    ISBN9789956552641
    There Was Another Country: Popular Resistance, Resurrection or Betrayal of a People
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    W. Forje

    John W. Forje is an African peace scientist, educator and peacemaker from Bali Nyongo, North West Region, Cameroon. He has a 1986 PhD (Science and Technology Policy) from the University of Salford. Widely published, Forje is the author of In the Heat of Africa's Underdevelopment: Africa at the Crossroads -Time to Deliver (2019) and Unravelling the Mysteries of Africa's Underdevelopment: Changing Africa, One Idea at a Time (2020).

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