Searching for the Past in Cameroon, Only to Find It Is Still Very Present Patrice Nganang’s trilogy of historical novels explores his country’s national identity, rife with great promise and pain.

To create such a map, I devised a simple method of determining state power, defined as a minimum level of order and security and a state’s actual exercise of its authority, which involved analyzing ...

Map of Cameroon with Anglophone region highlighted. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.) The past couple of weeks have witnessed separatists battling the military in bloody conflicts in Mamfe.