Considering the ensuing conflicts, violence, and wars in Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), the question staring us in the face is whether the world community has the will to change the current view of the untouchability of Westphalian sovereign states.

Through narrating the politics and everyday life in ex-British Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia), Porcupine in a Python’s Throatmakes an invaluable contribution to understanding the choices and constraints facing both Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) people, and the people of Republique du Cameroun. The volume illustrates how the people of ex-British Southern Cameroons’ (Ambazonia) seek alternatives to the cycles of repression and state terrorism turned into reprisal, retaliation and a genocidal war from 2016. This volume challenges the authorities over delimited territories and their inhabitants in states arbitrarily put together and held together by external power and control. The editor and contributors argue that the Westphalian sovereignty of authority as indivisible in postcolonial and other settings is unworkable, and does not last very long in plural societies put together and sustained with the use of force.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One: Change and History in the Destiny of the British Southern Cameroons

Nfor Ngala Nfor

Chapter Two: Decoding UNGA Res 1608 of April 21, 1961

Carlson Anyangwe

Chapter Three: Cameroun’s Presence in Ambazonia Has No Proper Basis in History, Politics, Law or in Any Other Respect

Carlson Anyangwe

Chapter Four: From Words to War: Representation, Discourse and Conflict in the Cameroons

Thomas Ayeh Jing

Chapter Five: The Anglophone Problem in the Cameroons: The Real and Disturbing Dimensions

Stanley Nzefeh

Chapter Six Persistent Regression in the Right to Development: Latent Trigger to the Southern Cameroons Pursuit of Sovereign Statehood

Carol Chi Ngang

Chapter Seven: Porcupine in a Python’s Throat

Fonkem Achankeng

Chapter Eight: Breaking the Silence: Before My Dead Body is Found Under the River Sanaga

Rev Fr. Gerald N. Njumbam

Chapter Nine: Blood, Tears, and the Keyboard: Women’s Participation in the Southern Cameroons’ Conflict

Lilian Lem Atanga

Chapter Ten: The 2019 Major National Dialogue and Decentralization Utopia as a Panacea to the Southern Cameroons’ conflict: Critical perspectives

Jean-Claude Ashukem

Chapter Eleven: Damning Role of Western Powers in the Ambazonian Conflict

Denis Atemnkeng

Chapter Twelve: Foreign Actors and Foreign Reactions to the Liberation Struggle in Southern Cameroons

John Fobanjong

Chapter Thirteen: From the Anger of Despair to Resistance and Self-Defense: The Trajectory of 21^st Century Genocide in the Cameroons

Tatah Mentan

Chapter Fourteen: Cameroon’s Anti-Terrorism Law and the Trials of Ex-British Southern Cameroons’ Activists in a Military Tribunal

Patrick Agejoh

Chapter Fifteen: Invincible People of Ambazonia

Carlson Anyangwe

Appendix A: Important Dates in the Historical Development of the British Southern Cameroons Nation

Nfor Ngala Nfor