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42 Suffolk Transnat'l L. Rev. 1 (2019)
International Law and the Anglophone Problem in Cameroon: Federalism, Secession or the Status Quo?

handle is hein.journals/sujtnlr42 and id is 9 raw text is: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE ANGLOPHONE PROBLEM IN CAMEROON: FEDERALISM, SECESSION OR THE STATUS QUO? John Mukum Mbaku* I. INTRODUCTION On October 11, 2016, lawyers in the Anglophone Regions' of the Republic of Cameroon went on a peaceful sit-down strike to protest the government's refusal to address their grievances.2 Earlier, these lawyers had petitioned the central government in Yaound6 to address various issues that were affecting the prac- tice of law and the legal profession in the Anglophone Regions * John Mukum Mbaku is an Attorney and Counselor at Law (licensed in the State of Utah) and Brady Presidential Distinguished Professor of Economics & John S. Hinckley Research Fellow at Weber State University (Ogden, Utah, USA). He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. He received the J.D. degree and Graduate Certificate in Environmental and Natural Re- sources Law from the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he was Managing Editor of the Utah Environmental Law Review, and the Ph.D. (economics) from the University of Georgia. This article reflects only the present considerations and views of the author, which should not be attributed to either Weber State Univer- sity or the Brookings Institution. 1. The Republic of Cameroon was established as a bilingual federation in 1961, with English and French as its official languages and two legal systems-the common law of England and Wales and the French Civil law. See Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cameroon, September 1, 1961. See also Charles Manga Fombad, Manag- ing Legal Diversity: Cameroonian Bijuralism at a Critical Crossroads, in MIXED LE- GAL SYSTEMS, EAST AND WEST 101, 101 (Vernon Valentine Palmer, Mohamed Y. Mattar & Anna Koppel eds., 2015). 2. See, e.g., Moki Edwin Kindzeka, Lawyers, Teachers in Cameroon Strike for More English in Anglophone Regions, VOA NEWS (Nov. 29, 2016, 1: 51 PM), https:// www.voanews.com/a/lawyers-teachers-strike-cameroon-more-english-anglophone-re- gions/3616197.html (stating, inter alia, that strikes organized and carried out by teach- ers and lawyers to increase use of English language in schools in country's Anglophone Regions have spread to schools and universities); Josiane Kouagheu, Cameroon Anglophones strike, boycott school in protest over rights, REUTERS (Sept. 4, 2017, 2:16 PM), https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cameroon-politics/cameroon-an- glophones-strike-boycott-school-in-protest-over-rights-idUSKCN1BF27S (stating, in- ter alia, that the central government sent security forces to patrol mostly deserted streets in Anglophone Regions of Cameroon as citizens boycott markets and schools in protests over their rights).

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