" ‘Silence must reign’, ordered the head of the colonial administration in #Cameroon in 1958. The demand was all the more pressing because #France was simultaneously fighting the war in Algeria, provoking outcry at home and international censure of the self-styled ‘homeland of human rights’."

NLR speaks w/ #ThomasDeltombe, author of #TheCameroonWar: A History of French #Neocolonialism in #Africa

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-secret-war

#Cameroun #Françafrique #violencesColoniales #livres #books @bookstodon