Milton Krieger, Emeritus Professor of Liberal Studies, Western Washington University, USA

“Manu Dibango’s 1983 Makossa Man album is a prize item in my vinyl LP collection. I heard his music during the 1990s in both the boîte de nuit circuit downhill from Yaounde’s Le Capitol and a more urgent setting, alongside Petit-Pays’ and Lapiro’s, from insurrectionary Bamenda’s boom boxes. I’m now thrilled to read this posthumous tribute to (as the book puts it) a major “Afropolitan…musician-philosopher,” and grateful to this circle of University of Buea-inspired tribunes for a ground-breaking volume about Cameroon’s and Africa’s protest culture and politics writ large.”