The Crisis Sour Fruit
A poet-activist grieves the deaths of Anglophone Cameroonians in military operations—including named individuals—and indicts state violence as incompatible with the national motto of Peace, Work, Fatherland. The piece moves from specific losses to systemic critique: police brutality, economic extraction, suspended freedoms, and a government that has surrendered legitimacy through indifference to its own people's suffering.
Staff · 17 January 2019
