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EAN : 9782707192141
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 200
Size : 125 x 190 mm
THE CAMEROON WAR

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Achille Mbembe (préface de)
Collection : Cahiers libres
Release date : 13/10/2016
Legend has it that France, “the country of human rights,” generously led its old black African colonies to independence in 1960. A peaceful decolonisation which one is led to believe was done with mutual understanding and in the shared interests of France and Africa. This book tells quite a different... Legend has it that France, “the country of human rights,” generously led its old black African colonies to independence in 1960. A peaceful decolonisation which one is led to believe was done with mutual understanding and in the shared interests of France and Africa. This book tells quite a different story: that of a brutal, violent and murderous war which allowed Paris to invent a new system of domination: Françafrique.
 This secret war was waged in Cameroon during the 1950s and 1960s.
 
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EAN : 9782707192141
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 200
Size : 125 x 190 mm
La Découverte