Cameroonian Youths and the Protest of February 2008

Amin, Julius A.

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“…7 United by 'the deep perception that they have been purposely marginalized over the years' 8 (Pommerolle & Heungoup, 2017, p. 528), they were soon joined en masse by students, Bendskiners (motorbike taxi drivers), transport workers, and others in a long-established form of Cameroonian protest: massive boycotts that effectively turn entire cities into ghost towns, or les villes mortes. This style of protestghosttowninghas been prevalent in Cameroon since the early 1990s (Amin, 2013). When the ruling party, Paul Biya's RDPC/CPDM (Cameroon People's Democratic Movement), announced it would hold a 'peace parade' in Bamenda on 8 December 2016a blatant attempt to stifle and appropriate the months-long series of protestspeople responded by blocking roadways and heckling RDPC supporters.…”

Section: The Anglophone Resistance Struggle Cameroon 2016-2019mentioning

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Murrey

2022

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In the decisive responses to protest movements in Ethiopia and Cameroon between 2015 and 2018, state control and repression were facilitated by colonial-corporate digital infrastructures and neo-imperial techno-political configurations. In both cases, resistance was met with pervasive stateinitiated and corporate-sanctioned internet shutdowns and disruptions. I situate these techno-political practices within the longue durée of coloniality to argue that the state suspension of internet connectivity is a form of infrastructural harm; an intentional violence made socially and structurally possible by the colonial configurations of infrastructure. My analysis draws from five years of digital ethnography and ethnographic fieldwork, including 13 months in Jimma, Ethiopia and nine months in Yaoundé, Cameroon. I mobilize a decolonial praxis that unmasks practices of authoritarian control within global racial coloniality, and seeks to foster cross-fertilizations of struggle and resistance praxis.

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Section: The Anglophone Resistance Struggle Cameroon 2016-2019mentioning

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Murrey

2022

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“…Ambassador Janet Garvey and representatives of the European Union asked the Biya regime not to remove presidential term limits from the nation’s constitution and also to stop the attacks against youth, but China did and said nothing in public. Even when young people were brutalized a few kilometers away from the Chinese embassy in Yaoundé, China said nothing (Amin 2013).…”

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Sino-Cameroon Relations: A Foreign Policy of Pragmatism

Amin¹

2015

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Based on primary sources, including documents obtained from Cameroon's Ministry of External Relations, oral interviews conducted in Cameroon, and local newspapers, and a variety of secondary sources, this article examines Cameroon's foreign policy and economic relations with China. It argues that Cameroon's engagement with China has resulted in short-term benefits for consumers but undermined long-term, sustainable economic development. The article concludes that unless China genuinely pursues its promised policies of "mutual respect" and "win-win gain," voices of protest will only grow louder in Cameroon and other African nations.Résumé: Cet article qui examine la politique étrangère du Cameroun et ses relations économiques avec la Chine se base sur des sources primaires, y compris des documents provenant du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères du Cameroun, des entrevues orales menées au Cameroun, des journaux locaux, et une variété de sources secondaires. Il fait valoir que l'engagement du Cameroun avec la Chine a entraîné des avantages à court terme pour les consommateurs, mais a miné à long terme le développement économique durable. L'article conclut que à moins que la Chine ne poursuive véritablement ses politiques promises de "respect mutuel" et de "gain gagnant-gagnant," des voix de protestation ne feront que s'accroître au Cameroun et dans d'autres pays africains.

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Cameroonian Youths and the Protest of February 2008

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A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

A decolonial political geography of resistance and digital infrastructural harm in Cameroon and Ethiopia

Sino-Cameroon Relations: A Foreign Policy of Pragmatism

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