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.
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