Raoul Peck’s Assistance Mortelle/Fatal Assistance
In today’s post, Cilas Kemedjio discusses Fatal Assistance, a documentary by Raoul Peck on the humanitarian relief operations after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti to alarm people who want to […]
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Taking Stock of Biafra’s Ghosts in Cameroon’s Current Events
Wrapping up our series on the conflict in Cameroon today, we repost Chimamanda Adichie Ngozie’s recent OpEd in the New York Times with an extended introduction by Dr. Cilas Kemedjio […]
The Anglophone Question in the Media and the Popular Imagination
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” Posts have thus far been published by Father Lado, (available here), and […]
Black Lives Do Not Matter: The Anglophone Question
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” Building on posts published last week by Father Lado, (available here), and […]
Out of the linguistic plantation complex: Africa Betrayed or the Anglophone Question in Cameroon
Since 2016, Cameroon has been in the midst of what has become known as “the Anglophone crisis.” The territory of present-day Cameroon was even more disrupted than many countries colonized […]
Fanon: Freedom for the Wretched or Servitude to Marxist Orthodoxy?
By Cilas Kemedjio
Frantz Fanon attended the All-Africa Conference convened by Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah in 1958. He met with anticolonial leaders, including Congolese Patrice Lumumba and Cameroonian Felix Moumié. During […]
Remembering Biafra’s Complex Motivations
By Cilas Kemedjio
In its coverage of the end of the Biafra war (1967-1970), Time Magazine inserted, “Africa’s Divided House,” a short commentary that focused on ethnic tensions threatening to turn Africa […]
Biafra: humanitarianism in the house of France’s neo-colonial Empire
By Cilas Kemedjio
As part of our on-going series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Biafra/Nigerian War, in a provocative piece by CIHA Blog co-editor, Cilas Kemedjio asks: “What if […]
Decolonizing the Story of Humanitarianism: The Case of the Biafra War
By Cilas Kemedjio
On May 30, 1967, Lieutenant-colonel Chukwumeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the South Eastern Region’s military governor, proclaimed the Republic of Biafra at a champagne party in the city of Ennugu, […]