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36 years under the quasi-dictatorial regime of president Paul Biya, a con- tinuous economic crisis since 1987, dramatic youth unemployment and a civil war raging for three years in the two Anglophone [...] official self-representation of the society. The propa- ganda of the Biya government with its surreal promises of a better future for all can no longer bind the majority of a population starved of political