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- The Cameroon Condition
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: LANGAA RPCIG
summary
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. �The Mungo Bridge,� is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons � a marriage gone sour right from the honeymoon. It raises hard questions on the failed union, and is uncompromisingly courageous in the solutions it proposes. This popular essay was first published at a time when it was risky to be open and critical, especially on what has come to be known as The Anglophone Problem. �The Anglophone File� discusses the narrow and barren politics of belonging that have exacerbated divisions and controversies among Anglophone elites, turning them into political fodder for the Francophone dominated state. The essay suggests ways out of the divisions and intrigue that have kept Anglophones permanently at daggers drawn against each other, and facilitated their exploitation, humiliation and marginalization. The third essay, �Fragments of Unity,� concerns the South West Region, whose leaders Ngwane criticizes of political opportunism and of a chronic lack of vision and fortitude with regard to the socio-economic development of the region. It calls for a leadership free of the docility, mediocrity and praisesingerliness. These are powerful essays that have attracted praise and criticism alike. They are essays to leave few indifferent. Their continued relevance to current debates makes of them a most read.
Table of Contents
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- The Mungo Bridge
- Introduction
- pp. 3-4
- Chapter Two. National Unity
- pp. 23-31
- The Anglophone File
- Fragments of Unity
- Chapter Nine. Our Geography
- pp. 115-120
- Chapter Eleven. Our Task Today
- pp. 137-169
- Chapter Twelve. Our Common Future
- pp. 171-178
Additional Information
ISBN
9789956727100
Related ISBN(s)
9789956727285
MARC Record
OCLC
807979925
Pages
188
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No