What is it about?
The ongoing political crisis in Cameroon has moved from a peaceful protest to an arms conflict. How did the vision of a peaceful protest turn into a violent conflict and what could be done to reframe that vision? What role does communication play in imagining new possibilities for the Anglophones in Cameroon?
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Why is it important?
Reexamining the language that revolutionaries use against the actions they take to achieve their goals can help us understand the future they hope to create in the present.
Perspectives
The revolutionary ideology of the Ambazonian movement has shifted from a peaceful approach to one of violence. This shift helps to eclipse the premise of the revolution. As a result the initial goals of the movement cannot be achieved. There's a need for English-speaking Cameroonian activists to match their revolutionary language with their revolutionary action to achieve viable, prefigurative political goals.
Blessed Ngoe
University of Colorado Boulder
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This page is a summary of: Hopes Ablaze: Reimagining the Revolutionary Alternative in the Ambazonian War of Independence, The African Review, July 2023, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/1821889x-bja10068.
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