Given the crisis today over the proper power of the State in modern Cameroon (as elsewhere in Africa), chiefs are sometimes considered as a possible alternative focus of authority. Yet chieftaincy is ...

In Cameroon, there has been a surge in protests by the English speaking minority against the dominance of the francophone majority. Understanding the country's colonial past helps explain the depth of ...

As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native ...

A traditional leader in Cameroon is seen in an undated file photo. (Credit: Unsplash.) Listen YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – A leading Catholic priest in Cameroon has called for the restoration of the ‘power and ...