{"product_id":"the-cameroon-war-thomas-deltombe-9781788733762","title":"The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe shocking history of France's secret war in Cameroon and its neocolonial afterlives\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLegend has it that the end of France's empire in sub-Saharan Africa was a peaceful affair. This book tells a very different story, exposing the shocking violence of a secret war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIts theater was Cameroon in the 1950s and '60s, where a mass movement for self-determination emerged under the leadership of a pro-independence party, the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC). In response, the colonial power opted for brutal repression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying the same methods as in Algeria, French forces waged a counterinsurgency campaign of extraordinary violence, eventually eradicating the opposition and installing a client dictatorship in Yaound?. At the height of the Cold War, with attention focused on the Algerian bloodbath, the conflict in Cameroon received little attention at the time. Subsequently, its devastating consequences -- and tens of millions of victims -- would be intentionally obscured by French authorities and their local collaborators. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Cameroon War\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers this hidden history for the first time. It illuminates a forgotten struggle for decolonization at the origin of neocolonial rule in Francophone Africa that persists to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Deltombe, Jacob Tatsitsa, Manuel Domergue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788733762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788733762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Thomas Deltombe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46489476628735,"sku":"9781788733762","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1f212e99-1e9f-45f8-97e6-6f068501a906.jpg?v=1736953665","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cameroon-war-thomas-deltombe-9781788733762","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}