God the politician / Peterkins Manyong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manyong, Peterkins.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political corruption--Cameroon.

Political corruption.

Cameroon--Politics and government--1982-.

Cameroon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

God the Politician is a compelling analytical, critical, informed and largely eyewitness account of the major events that have taken place in Cameroon since the return of multiparty politics in the 1990's. The accession of Paul Biya to power under the one-party regime in 1982 and the attempt to overthrow him in a coup d'tat in 1984 are told in flashback, so are the excesses of power without responsibility that have come to be associated with over 25 years of Biya as President. Most of the story is centred on the struggle by the opposition, led by the Social Democratic Front (SDF), to overthrow

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Birth of a Political Messiah; 2. Unwise Men From The East; 3. Murdering The 'Insurgents'; 4. The Ndu Genocide; 5. Electors and Cheaters; 6. Sacrificial Lambs and Wolves; 7. Particulars of a State of Emergency; 8. Patriots and Gangsters; 9. Recollections of a Faked Coup Plot; 10. Constructional Acrobats & the Anglophone Problem; 11. Home-Bred Terrorists; 12. State Persecutors; 13. Released Terror Suspects Narrate Harrowing Tales; 14. Electoral Gymnastics & the Military Option; 15. Tribute To Machiavelli; 16. The Law of Karma

17. The Cardinal, Politicians & State Terror18. Spiritual Democracy; 19. Power and the Man; 20. Bloody Universities; 21. Hunter Hunted; 22. The Phenomenon Called Baba Danpullo; 23. A Magician at the Presidency; 24. The Role of the Church in Cameroon Politics; 25. Postscript; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613197979

9781283197977

1283197979

9789956715664

9956715662

9789956715787

9956715786

9789956615766

9956615765

OCLC:

830165769