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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-229).

Preface -- part I. Sign posts -- When the gods spoke -- Conquering the fear syndrome -- part II. Consequences of annexation and colonial occupation -- The development Of underdevelopment -- Constitutionalisation of annexation and alien rule -- The Two Cameroons and the Bakassi Peninsula conflict : what is at stake? -- part III. In defence of identity -- Recurrent fractured foundation -- For national renascence -- The winning spirit -- Annextures -- Annex (I). Boundary treaty between the British Southern Cameroons and French Cameroun -- Annex (II). U.N. General Assembly 4th Committee vote on independence Of Southern Cameroons -- Annex (III). U.N. General Assembly vote on Resolution 1608 Of April 21, 1961.

Urgency of a New Dawn is the cry of most Southern Cameroonians against those who they experience to be an oppressive, Machiavellian, hostile, parasitising, captor-like, secessionist, assimilationist, discriminatory, and dehumanising la Republique du Cameroun, to which they were annexed through misleading UN and UK politics and Politics as a condition toward their independence from the UK in 1961. Extrapolating only on these two territories, Urgency of a New Dawn is no less the sweeping story of one too many other peoples across Africa, tormented by the heedless partitioning of the continent by colonisers and the consequential neo-patrimonial and ethnic African Politics and politics of belonging. Forced either into spaces that were never theirs, or pushed out of spaces that they struggle to claim and/or prove theirs, many African peoples today find themselves engaging in endless battles, not against colonisers but against fellow black Africans, for the survival of their essence, their culture, languages, traditions, dignity, modes of being and identification, right to equality, and freedom.

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