Education and Federalism in History of Ambazonian Resistance: The Gymnastics and Folly of Assimilation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781779285331)

This book focuses on educational dualism and federalism to follify assimilation. It holds out the sphere of education as the stronghold of the Ambazonian resistance to outright assimilation. Di erences and diversity, if properly canalized, are supposed to be Africa's strength. The channel for properly managing them is federalism.

But instead of giving the di erences and diversity their proper channel that is called federalism, the Cameroon administration, for instance, did only impose the unitary hyper centralized state and then continually promoted what some experts described in 1981 as the official fanning of the "internal friction within the... bench and tensions between East Cameroon and West Cameroon judges due to different patterns and levels of education and qualifications." The administration's confusing policy was that of fanning the differences (for divide and rule purposes) but at the same time refusing that the two educational "sub-systems" responsible for these di erences were different. The book thus neatly argues in regard of education (and language & legal systems) that Cameroon's over-sung cultural or educational dualism was a charade - a sham epitomized by its assimilationist 1998 Education Law (known as Law No 98/004 of 14 April 1998 to Lay Down Guidelines for Education in Cameroon). It is here sophisticately demonstrated how this piece of legislation, rather than reaffirming Cameroon's biculturalism as it avowed, was hell bent on e acing any semblance of cultural or educational dualism still resisting assimilation.