Porcupine in a Python’s Throat

Fonkem Achankeng is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh

Porcupine in a Python's Throat is a collection of essays that diagnoses and prescribes an urgent but complex surgical operation in British Southern Cameroons aka Ambazonia, a self-governing territory with recognized international boundaries in former British West Africa, that Great Britain and the United Nations considered 'expendable' at independence in 1961. This volume of very well-written essays tells the cruel experiences of the betrayal and colonial subjugation of the people of the region for decades, with a global conspiracy of silence. In an era of renewed rhetoric on freedoms, independence and democratization, the book echoes the clarion call of Frantz Fanon while being very immediate and pertinent to those non-nation-states which currently struggle for freedom and recognition. It is a great resource for those interested in postcolonial independence movements and highly recommended for scholars and practitioners in the fields of international relations, political science, peace and conflict studies, history, international law, sociology, human services, and security studies.Goodnews OsahBabcock University, Nigeria

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One: Change and History in the Destiny of the British Southern CameroonsNfor Ngala NforChapter Two: Decoding UNGA Res 1608 of April 21, 1961Carlson AnyangweChapter Three: Cameroun’s Presence in Ambazonia Has No Proper Basis in History, Politics, Law or in Any Other RespectCarlson AnyangweChapter Four: From Words to War: Representation, Discourse and Conflict in the CameroonsThomas Ayeh JingChapter Five: The Anglophone Problem in the Cameroons: The Real and Disturbing DimensionsStanley NzefehChapter Six Persistent Regression in the Right to Development: Latent Trigger to the Southern Cameroons Pursuit of Sovereign StatehoodCarol Chi NgangChapter Seven: Porcupine in a Python’s ThroatFonkem AchankengChapter Eight: Breaking the Silence: Before My Dead Body is Found Under the River Sanaga Rev Fr. Gerald N. NjumbamChapter Nine: Blood, Tears, and the Keyboard: Women’s Participation in the Southern Cameroons’ ConflictLilian Lem Atanga