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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791403603321

Autore

Mukong A. W (Albert W.)

Titolo

Prisoner without a crime [[electronic resource] ] : discplining dissent in Ahidjo's Cameroon / / Albert Mukong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa RPCIG, 2009

ISBN

1-283-19814-2

9786613198143

9956-716-04-9

9956-716-16-2

9956-615-33-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Disciplina

323.096711

Soggetti

Political prisoners - Cameroon

Cameroon Politics and government 1960-1982

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Doughty human rights crusader, Albert Mukong was incarcerated for six years in some of Cameroon's worst detention centres under the despotic regime of late President Amadou Ahidjo. This book details his personal account of the discipline and punishment that the Cameroonian state has systematically dished out to dissidents who have dared to stand their ground. Until his death in 2004, Albert Mukong was without doubt, Anglophone Cameroon's most conspicuous political prisoner, spokesperson and champion human rights advocate. The particular detention he recounts in this book is evidence of how nat