BOOKS FROM CAMEROONPrisoner Without a Crime: Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon
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Set in Cameroon
Male author
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Doughty human rights crusader, Albert Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon's worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This book details his personal account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically dished out to dissidents who have dared to stand their ground. Until his death in 2004, Albert Mukong was without doubt, Anglophone Cameroon's most conspicuous political prisoner, spokesperson and champion human rights advocate. The particular detention he recounts in this book is evidence of how nationalists such as Ruben Um Nyobe, Ernest Ouandie, Bishop Ndongmo and others, have in their struggles sacrificed enormously so that freedom and democracy might see the light of day in their reluctant Cameroon.
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(4 months ago) |
04 Jun, 2025
An autobiographical account of the author's life in imprisonment in Cameroon in the 70s. Interesting account but not very well written.
The author was imprisoned for 6 years in the worst detention centres under the despotic regime of President Ahijo.
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