Ambazonia | The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon

Since 2017, Cameroon has seen growing violence in what is generally known as the Anglophone Crisis. But what started as a conflict over decentralisation has now become a full scale effort to secure independence for the self-declared Federal Republic of Ambazonia. So, what is the conflict about? And is there any hope for an end to fighting?

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The conflict in Cameroon mirrors so many similar conflicts in Africa. The product of colonial borders, and fateful decisions taken at the time of decolonisation, it saw a major part of the British Cameroons integrated into the formally French-held Republic of Cameroon as part of a newly established Federal Republic of Cameroon. However, as is so often the case, the arrangement soon broke down as the Francophone elite, representing 80% of the population, rolled back the autonomy of the English-speaking areas. After decades of repression this spilled over into armed conflict in 2017, at the same time as the Anglophone areas declared independence, as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia - named after the Ambas Bay. The question now is whether the conflict can be resolved.

CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction and Titles
0:41 Cameroon and the legacy of Colonialism
1:32 Geography and Demographics of Cameroon
2:11 The History of the Cameroons
4:53 Anglophone Cameroon after Unification
5:58 Growing Anglophone Dissent
7:06 Ambazonia and the Declaration of Independence
10:50 The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon

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UN Trusteeship Report (1959) https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1311134?ln=en
Cameroon vs UK (ICJ 1963) https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/48/judgments
Cameroon (International Crisis Group) https://www.crisisgroup.org/africa/central-africa/cameroon
Cameroon (US State Department) https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/cameroon/

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