In this unique volume, leading scholars examine how Cameroonians organize and experience their lives under Cameroonian leadership and local responses to that leadership. The volume offers essential case studies that allow us to examine the lives of ordinary people in post-colonial Africa through five lenses: politics, society and culture, economy, international relations, and migration. It places the nation’s contemporary challenges within a broader political, economic, and socio-cultural context, and uses that to make recommendations for future directions. The book also celebrates areas in which the country has done well and calls on its citizens to build on those achievements. This volume is forward-looking and as such raises important questions about issues of development, ethnicity, wealth, poverty, and class.

Contributions by: Fonkem Achankeng, Peter Ngwafu, Walter Gam Nkwi, Roland N. Ndille, Honoré Mimche, Christian Bios Nelem, Achille Pinghane Yonta, Nobert Lengha Tohnain, Carlson Anyangwe, Moses K. Tesi, Lotsmart Fonjong, Kengo Emmanuel, Zacharia N. Nchinda, Jeannette Wogaing, Mireille Nnanga, Rose Angeline Abissi, Joseph Takougang, Julius A. Amin, Augustine E. Ayuk, Emmanuel E. Kengo, Rose Mireille Nnanga
Foreword by: John M. Mbaku