Author: Chris Anu

Paris – Cameroon: There is a particular kind of political earthquake that does not announce itself with noise. It arrives quietly, a filing here, a court clerk’s stamp there,  and only later, when the dust begins to settle, do people realize that the ground beneath an entire system has shifted. What Issa Tchiroma did in a Paris courtroom recently is exactly that kind of earthquake. And Cameroon’s political establishment, drunk on decades of impunity, does not yet fully understand what has just happened to it. Let us be precise about the legal architecture first, because it matters enormously. The Paris…

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