Overview

This study about political opposition in Cameroon is of contemporary relevance on a continent where dictatorship has been able to develop multiple means of co-opting, neutralising and frustrating forms of political opposition in order to institutionalise apathy and impunity in the face of public expectation. Although the Cameroonian opposition parties have manifestly failed to construct the necessary unity and solidarity to confront the sterile rhetoric of the RDPC party in power, this book posits the argument that post-colonial governments have not demonstrated any real will to construct a level playing field - even though they go on congratulating themselves for having delivered 'advanced democracy'. At a time when Africans are becoming more and more disillusioned with the promises of a 'second liberation', the contributors of this book address the difficulties confronting multiparty democracy in Cameroon; and thus draw the lessons that must be learned in order to reinstate hope in the political process amongst ordinary Africans. (In French)