History and Nation Building: a Theoretico-Historical Introspection into the Current Socio-Political Crisis in the Northwest and Southwest Regions of Cameroon

Abstract

Since 2016 Cameroon has witnessed some arguably unbelievable and unimaginable socio-political difficulties which have found full blown expression in an open call to question of the idea of a one Cameroon nation. Specifically, there have been violent socio-political upheavals which have curiously but not unexpectedly, been limited particularly to the Northwest and Southwest regions of the country, popularly known and referred to as Anglophone Cameroon. The incongruities have manifested in so many ways and have shown themselves as having the potential of bringing to naught the very foundations on which the country is built. Several militant and disgruntled voices have emerged and gathered steam of non-negligible proportions highlighting frustrations about the way Cameroon is governed and especially the way its historic and component parts are held and live together as integral parts of the same nation. Open and dissenting voices have brought to the fore obstacles which beset and negatively impact the process of structuring, constructing and consolidating the young nation of Cameroon.