Taking Stock of Biafra’s Ghosts in Cameroon’s Current Events
Wrapping up our series on the conflict in Cameroon today, we repost Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie’s recent OpEd in the New York Times with an extended introduction by Dr. Cilas Kemedjio […]
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The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon: What Went Wrong?
Gerald Acho revisits the history of the crisis in Cameroon and makes a plea for subsidiarity. Joining Father Lado and Dr. Cilas Kemedjio’s previous posts, Acho discusses the historical […]
The Anglophone Question in the Media and the Popular Imagination
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” Posts have thus far been published by Father Lado, (available here), and […]
Black Lives Do Not Matter: The Anglophone Question
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” Building on posts published last week by Father Lado, (available here), and […]
Out of the linguistic plantation complex: Africa Betrayed or the Anglophone Question in Cameroon
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” The territory of present-day Cameroon was even more disrupted than many countries colonized […]
“Zanele Muholi Brings Her ‘Visual Activism’ Out of Africa, and Into New York”
Zanele Muholi, a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video and installation, will be giving the 9th Annual “Two Icons” lecture at the University of […]
Fanon: Freedom for the Wretched or Servitude to Marxist Orthodoxy?
By Cilas Kemedjio
Frantz Fanon attended the All-Africa Conference convened by Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in 1958. He met with anticolonial leaders, including Congolese Patrice Lumumba and Cameroonian Felix Moumié. During […]
Remembering Biafra’s Complex Motivations
By Cilas Kemedjio
In its coverage of the end of the Biafra war (1967-1970), Time Magazine inserted, “Africa’s Divided House,” a short commentary that focused on ethnic tensions threatening to turn Africa […]
Book Review: NGOs and Social Justice in South Africa and Beyond
By Nozipho Dlodlo, PhD Candidate, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Introduction
The book ‘NGOs and Social Justice in South Africa and Beyond: Thinking Africa Series’ (UKZN Press 2017) edited by Sally Matthews, emerged […]