Getting Africa Out of the Dungeon

Using one of the continent’s supposed pathfinders, Cameroon as
case-study, this book interrogates judiciary in Africa in three domains.
First, as the third branch of government, second, as the acknowledged
umpire of federalism, and, finally, as a means of reversing the
institutionalization of in-human rights and injustice administration in
Africa. While examining the roots and causes of the persisting human
rights and justice administration problems in Cameroon particularly, and
Africa in general, the book through the tumbu-tumbu Long-Distance
Government Theory (LDGT), argues for a rethinking and freeing of
strategies currently used from close to a century of colonial and
neo-colonial bondage, under the confusing covers of ‘independence’ and
of ‘advanced democracy’. The book challenges Africa to consider a
mentality change, for a ‘real’ judiciary transformative change. The book
will interest legal practitioners, social anthropologists, development
studies and political science practitioners, among other such
practitioners in the social sciences and humanities.