Incisive Journalism in Cameroon: The Best of ��Cameroon Report�� (1978 � 1986)

Contents

v Table of Contents 1. The C.N.U: Twelve Years After..........................................1 2. Cameroon Report 18/1/81: Wum Farmer-Grazier Problem.......................................................................................3 3. A chaotic Highway Transporters Union............................7 4. Inhuman prison conditions..................................................11 5. Lay Private Education...........................................................15 6. Health for all by year 2000...................................................19 7. Catering for disabled persons..............................................23 8. Cameroon Nigeria Reconciliation.......................................27 9. The Role of our Parliamentarians.......................................29 10. Wastage and Mismanagement in Public Health Services........................................................................................33 11. Crackdown on Customs Fraud......................................... 37 12. FONADER: Not yet the Farmer’s Bank........................ 41 13. Mount Cameroon Erupts...................................................45 14. President Ahmadou Ahidjo’s Dramatic Resignation.....49 15. The Task Ahead for President Paul Biya.........................53 16. Biya and the Housing Crisis...............................................57 17. Our Ailing Parastatal Corporations..................................61 18. The University as Brain Trust........................................... 65 19. Biya on Housing and Road Construction........................69 20. April 6 Coup Attempt: An Appraisal...............................73 21. In the Dawn of the Abortive Coup..................................77 22. Reflection on May 20..........................................................79 23. Parastatal Corporations Revisited.....................................81 24. Chasing Files: A Product of Centralisation.....................85 25. The Plight of our Farmers................................................. 89 26. The One-shift and Two-shift Working systems.............93 27. Decentralisation versus Decongestion.............................97 vi 28. 13th Anniversary of the Unitary State............................... 99 29. The Role of Development Committees...........................103 30. 1985 Budgetary Session......................................................107 31. MUNA on Bilingualism......................................................109 32. The Concept of Development Journalism......................113 33. The Question of Certificate Equivalence........................ 115 34. Harmonising Our Two Legal Systems.............................119 35. The First October Story.....................................................123 36. May 20th : Our Dream of a New and Great Cameroon..127 37. The CPDM and Civil Liberties......................................... 133 38. Enemies of Democracy......................................................137 39. Towards a New World Information Order.....................145 40. Africa’s Five Million Refugees...........................................149 41. Boycotting sporting links with Racist South African.....153 42. The Proposed Senegambian confederation.....................157 43. The I.M.F. Tightens policy towards Third World..........161 44. The Assassination of SADAT: Consequences on Egyptian Politics......................................................................................... 165 45. The North-South Dialogue................................................169 46. Ciskei Homeland: Another stride for Apartheid............173 47. Palestinian Autonomy.........................................................177 48. Cameroon’s Position on SADR’S Admission into the O.A.U....................................................................................181 49. The 9th Franco-African Summit........................................185 50. OAU Deadlock over Western Sahara..............................189 51. Foiled OAU Summit Reconvened....................................193 52. Checking the African Dependency Syndrome................197 53. The O.A.U. Drought Fund................................................203 54. The Western Sahara Ten Years After...............................207 55. South Africa: Botha’s Lame Reforms...............................211 56. African Leaders in Europe.................................................215 57. South Africa’s puppet Government in Namibia............ 219 vii 58. Africa’s Troubled Politics...................................................223 59. Pope John Paul II in Africa............................................... 227 60. Leadership Succession in Africa........................................231 61. Reagan-Gorbachev Summit...............................................235 62. Africa and its Elections.......................................................239 viii ...