The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa

by Thomas Deltombe, Manuel Domergue, Jacob Tatsitsa

The shocking history of France's secret war in Cameroon and its neocolonial afterlives

Legend 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.

Its 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1788733762
• ISBN13: 9781788733762
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.