Political dissent is nothing new here — the history of how the Anglophone provinces, once known as British Southern Cameroons, came to be absorbed within the majority French-speaking territory is full of tales of intrigue and betrayal.
Assurances of a bilingual regime respectful of the peoples’ identities are increasingly perceived as hollow, with French-speaking magistrates sent to adjudicate common-law disputes, civil society leaders arrested and students tortured.
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