A Preliminary Bibliography of the Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict in Cameroon

By Dibussi Tande

Since 2016, there has been a deluge of textual and audio-visual material – most of it available in real or near real time – on the “Anglophone Crisis” in Cameroon that morphed into a full scale conflict in 2017 and has thus far claimed (by the most conservative estimates) at least 3,500 or 4,000 lives, and forced close to 800,000 people from their homes.
Paradoxically, this easy access to information on the conflict has generated much more heat than light because most of this information generally lacks the distance and context to provide a holistic understanding and appraisal of the conflict - for example, its origins and manifestations; the key players and stakeholders and their motives, ideologies and modus operandi; similarities with other conflicts around the world; potential outcomes and obstacles to a resolution, etc.

Click here to download the 35-page bibliography on the Anglophone Crisis/Ambazonian Conflict.

It is in an attempt to address this shortcoming that I have put together this preliminary biography of about 400 mostly open access references (books, book chapters, journal articles, reports from NGOs and governments, theses and dissertations, etc.).

The references in the bibliography (re)present a myriad of perspectives and schools of thought on all facets of the crisis and are well-sourced for those interested in further researched. However, the bibliography is not only for the academics and researchers; it is primarily for the general public, which in the last five years, has been bombarded with tons of revisionist, overtly partisan, ideologically-driven and factually incorrect information about the original "Anglophone Problem" and its subsequent manifestation as the Ambazonian conflict. 

The bulk of the references focus primarily on the last five years; however, the bibliography also includes substantial pre-2016 publications that shed light on the background and origins of the conflict.

I plan to update this bibliography on the “forgotten war” at least once a year.  If you have published or know of any published research article, report or book not listed, please add it to the comments section and I will include it in the subsequent updates.

Bonus

Click here to download an older and more extensive Southern Cameroons bibliography (covering the early 19^th century to the end of the 20^th century), which I put together in 2000. This bibliography appears (uncredited) in Ayim, Martin Ayong (ed). 2010. Former British Southern Cameroons journey towards complete decolonization independence, and sovereignty: a comprehensive compilation of efforts. Volume Two. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, pp. 223-241. [Available on Amazon]

Comments

[Maurice]

Dear Prof, This is very useful – many thanks. Pleas note this recent report!

https://www.coventry.ac.uk/globalassets/media/global/08-new-research-section/ctpsr/civic_space_cameroon-web-report-jan-2021.pdf

Kind regards, Maurice

[Dibussi]

Thanks Maurice for this important study. I will definitely include it in the next update.

[Dr. Peter Vakunta]

Mola,
Please add:
https://www.amazon.com/Ntarikon-Downtrodden-Peter-W-Vakunta/dp/1434357678/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=vakunta&qid=1622814014&s=books&sr=1-5&asin=1434357678&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

[Dr. Vakunta]

Mola,
Some more:
https://www.amazon.com/Martyrdom-Other-Freedom-Poems-Vakunta/dp/1450251412/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=vakunta&qid=1622814132&s=books&sr=1-6

https://www.amazon.com/Magnum-Opus-Ntarikon-Peter-Vakunta/dp/9956764043/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=vakunta&qid=1622814217&s=books&sr=1-10

https://www.amazon.com/Nation-At-Risk-Narrative-Cameroonian/dp/146979974X/ref=sr_1_18?dchild=1&keywords=vakunta&qid=1622814260&s=books&sr=1

https://www.amazon.com/Straddling-Mungo-Poems-English-French/dp/9956558893/ref=sr_1_52?dchild=1&keywords=vakunta&qid=1622814311&s=books&sr=1-52

[Dibussi]

Thanks Dr. Vakunta for the links!