THE CAMEROON WAR, a history of French neocolonialism in Africa

184pp., maps, paperback, First English Language Edition, Verso, London & New York, 2025

ISBN: 9781788733762

First published in 2016 in French as La Guerre de Cameroun. L'invention de la Françafrique 1948-1971.

The Cameroon War uncovers the history of Cameroon's struggle for decolonisation in the 1950s and 1960s, when a mass movement for self-determination under the leadership of the pro-independence party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon, was brutally repressed by French authorities and a client dictatorship installed in the capital, Yaoundé.

"A vital corrective to historical amnesia, The Cameroon War is replete with lessons for the present" Musab Younis, author of On the Scale of the World

"The Cameroon War throws a spotlight on an episode of Franco-Cameroonian history that is still passed over in silence" Julien Le Gros, Le Point

Thomas Deltombe is an editor and journalist who writes widely for the French press.

Manuel Domergue is Research Director at the Fondation Abbé Pierre and a regular contributor to Alternatives Economiques.

Jacob Tatsitsa is a Cameroonian historian who has taught at the University of Yaoundé.