Author: Chris Anu

South Africa’s governing coalition is facing one of its biggest tests yet after the Democratic Alliance (DA), the second-largest party in the Government of National Unity (GNU), asked the High Court to strike down the country’s controversial Expropriation Act, the same legislation that fuelled a diplomatic dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump and intensified concerns…

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There is perhaps no political phrase more symbolic of Paul Biya’s four decades in power than the famous expression attributed to him: “Na Caterpillar go move me for ya.” In plain English, the message was unmistakable: only a bulldozer could remove him from office. For years, that statement became more than a joke. It became the governing philosophy of a political system where retirement seemed optional, succession was taboo, and public office was treated less as a constitutional responsibility than a lifetime possession. Today, Cameroon finds itself confronting the irony of that statement. President Biya has now spent weeks away…

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There are moments in the life of a people when history draws a clear line. Once that line is crossed, there is no honest way of pretending that the line didn’t exist. The Southern Cameroons crossed such a line on October 1, 2017. Whether one supports the declaration of independence or opposes it, whether one identifies as an independentist, a federalist, or a unionist, no serious observer can deny that 2017 fundamentally altered the political trajectory of the Southern Cameroons. It marked the culmination of a political process that had begun decades earlier. That is precisely why the recent calls…

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