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The 71st "British and French Condominium: Dynamic of the Anglophone Crisis in the History of Cameroon"

Monday, November 28, 2022 5:40 - 7:10 pm (JST)

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We will invite Dr. Adama Ousmanou, one of our visiting professors who will stay in Japan until early February 2023, as a speaker at the 71st ASC Seminar.

The 1916 condominium as joined British and French colonial administrations of Cameroon became the genesis of the Anglophone Crisis that started in 2016-2017 and is still going on. Dr. Ousmanou will analyze the political dynamics of the Crisis by comparing the policies in the colonial days and the post-colonial days.

◆Speaker: Dr. Adama Ousmanou (Visiting Associate Professor, African Studies Center - TUFS / Associate Professor; Head of Center for Research on Political, Social and Environmental Changes in the Sahel, Maroua University)

◆Title: British and French Condominium: Dynamic of the Anglophone Crisis in the History of Cameroon

◆Abstract:

The joined British and French colonial administration on Cameroonian territory in 1916, led to postcolonial unachieved source of marginalization, political claims, integration and unpredicted ethno-regional, linguistic and religious struggle for emergence and social promotion in Cameroon. The condominium as a shared administration in an ethnically, religiously and regionally diverse nation l