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Recommended memoir books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into memoir here are some memoir books from Cameroon for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.


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Prisoner Without a Crime: Disciplining Dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon by Albert Mukong EN

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Country: Africa / Cameroon flag Cameroon
Description:
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 nat... continue