Communal Liberalism, Napoleonic Law, and the Unraveling of Cameroon
This investigation examines how communal liberalism, once sold as a philosophy of harmony, became entangled with France’s Napoleonic legal tradition, producing a centralized state that many citizens now see as alien to their realities. By Ali Dan Ismael, Editor-in-Chief, on special assignment in Maroua, French Cameroun Cameroon’s political evolution has long been guided by a

