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The Cameroon war

The Cameroon war
a history of French neocolonialism in Africa

  • ISBN: 9781788733762
  • Editorial: Verso Books
  • Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
  • Colección: Southern Questions
  • Encuadernación: Rústica
  • Medidas: 23 cm
  • Nº Pág.: 192
  • Idiomas: Inglés

Papel: Rústica
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Resumen

Legend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. Its theater was Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s, where a mass movement for self-determination emerged under the leadership of a pro-independence party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC). In response, the colonial power opted for brutal repression. Employing the same methods as in Algeria, French forces waged a counterinsurgency campaign of extraordinary violence, eventually eradicating the opposition and installing a client dictatorship in Yaound�. At the height of the Cold War, with attention focused on the Algerian bloodbath, the conflict in Cameroon received little attention at the time. Subsequently, its devastating consequences - and tens of thousands of victims - would be intentionally obscured by French authorities and their local collaborators. The Cameroon War uncovers this hidden history for the first time. It illuminates a forgotten struggle for decolonization at the origin of neocolonial rule in Francophone Africa that persists to this day.

Preludes : the unsolvable colonial equation
The confrontation takes shape (1948-54)
'A smaller version of Algeria' (1955-58)
Stolen independence (1959-60)
Total war (1960-61)
Administering terror
Epilogue : a stubborn past, an impatient future

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