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Paul Biya
Jaillissant, à la surprise générale, de la succession d'Ahmadou Ahidjo, le président Paul Biya a bravé un parcours de turbulences que peu d'acteurs politiques contemporains peuvent s'autoriser : retournement spectaculaire de la parole de son prédécesseur, deux tentatives de coup d'Etat, une crise économique féroce, la désobéissance civile, la violence de la rue, une opposition insurrectionnelle appelant à la guerre civile armée, les trahisons des fidèles, les annonces de décès, le tir groupé de la presse depuis une quinzaine d'années, les manœuvres des partisans et des adversaires qui parfois deviennent des ennemis. Depuis 1982, Paul Biya a traversé ces épreuves à la su...
A Nation at Risk
A Nation at Risk: A Personal Narrative of the Cameroonian Crisis should be construed as a requiem for what used to be known as the Republic of Cameroon. The overriding objective of this book is to shine the searchlight on the dysfunctional government of Cameroon under President Paul Biya, a minuscule man and matching mind, endowed with a gargantuan ego. Those who wish to comprehend the apocalypse toward which the Cameroonian nation has been propelled by the rogue government of Mr. Biya would do well to study the minds of the men at the helm. Mr. Biya and his henchmen enjoy playing at and for power. The politics of power is for them an act of intellectual masturbation. Even the diabolism inhe...
The Bleeding Continent
This book tells the story of the sorry state of Africa. Although it acknowledges how Europe especially initiated and has surreptitiously maintained the ongoing predation on and the impoverishment of Africa, its major attention is on Africas self-betrayal, how Africas political leaders and elites have contributed in the present predicament of Africa. Beginning from the dishonourably sadistic roles some of the kings, chiefs, and elites of Africa played during the slave trade era to the predatory systems of governance many of their political leaders adopted after decolonisation and have maintained to date, this book x-rays the internal factors that are also responsible for the poverty of Africa. The author argues passionately, consequently, that only Africa can help Africa, not foreign aid or any external intervention. He stresses that unless the cannibalistic system of governance in many African states are reformed and systems that can stimulate and sustain economic growth adopted, the disappearance of Africa is imminent.
The Revolution’s Echoes
Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in particular, is considered to be an effective form of subversion and resistance under oppressive circumstances. But, as Nomi Dave shows us in The Revolution’s Echoes, the opposite is also true: music can often support, rather than challenge, the powers that be. Dave introduces readers to the music supporting the authoritarian regime of former Guinean president Sékou Touré, and the musicians who, even long after his death, have continued to praise dictators and avoid dissent. Dave shows that this isn’t just the result of state manipulation; even in the absence of coercion, musicians and their audiences take real pleasure in musical praise of leaders. Time and again, whether in traditional music or in newer genres such as rap, Guinean musicians have celebrated state power and authority. With The Revolution’s Echoes, Dave insists that we must grapple with the uncomfortable truth that some forms of music choose to support authoritarianism, generating new pleasures and new politics in the process.
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals, substantial forests, and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence, it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history, indicate that ...
Paul Biya -Les secrets du pouvoir
Cet essai s'appuie sur des faits biographiques, historiques et politiques que tout observateur de la scène reconnaît parce qu'il les connaît : l'enfance au village ; le parcours scolaire à Nden, Edéa, Yaoundé et Paris ; la carrière du grand commis de l'Etat au service de l'intérêt général jusqu'à son accession au sommet de la responsabilité républicaine. Tel est le cheminement politique de Paul Biya depuis le 6 novembre 1982.
Paul Biya
Jaillissant, à la surprise générale, de la succession d'Ahmadou Ahidjo, le président Paul Biya a bravé un parcours de turbulences que peu d'acteurs politiques contemporains peuvent s'autoriser : retournement spectaculaire de la parole de son prédécesseur, deux tentatives de coup d'Etat, une crise économique féroce, la désobéissance civile, la violence de la rue, une opposition insurrectionnelle appelant à la guerre civile armée, les trahisons des fidèles, les annonces de décès, le tir groupé de la presse depuis une quinzaine d'années, les manœuvres des partisans et des adversaires qui parfois deviennent des ennemis. Depuis 1982, Paul Biya a traversé ces épreuves à la su...
Ecce homo, Ferdinand Léopold Oyono
Cet ouvrage est un hommage mérité à un classique africain. II laisse notamment observer que, chez Oyono, la diplomatie est nourrie de littérature ; la verve littéraire vient au secours de la diplomatie. Le haut fonctionnaire se profile à travers les dédales d'une vie marquée par l'expérience accumulée à divers postes de responsabilité. Celui qu'on surnomme volontiers le Vieux Nègre n'est pas, à proprement parler, un homme politique au sens couramment donné à ce concept chez nous. Compagnon fidèle du président Biya, il chemine non sans porter des marques particulières à un destin qu'il conduit, du haut de son imposante stature. L'originalité du romancier n'est pas vraimen...
