This is an extract from The Cameroon War: A History of French Neocolonialism in Africa, now available from Verso Books. During the 1950s and ’60s, France waged a brutal colonial war in Cameroon while ...

BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: ...