Southern Cameroons/Ambazonia Conflict: A Political Economy

This article examines the forced internal colonialism and institutional assimilation struggle between the Francophone majority and Anglophone minority, culminating in the latter seceding, thus precipitating intractable violent conflicts of monumental proportion. The geo-strategic location of the disputed Anglophones region, and human and material endowment of Ambazonia, premise this conflict on resource and power politics. Dialectical investigation into historical antecedents, objective interrogation of political and economic processes of marginalization and the inherent contradictions of power relations in Cameroon is critiqued. Inclusive national dialogue and reforms, suitable power-sharing formulas and international recognition of the contentious Federal Republic of Ambazonia holds the answers to the Southern Cameroonian question even as the international community is largely mute.