Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front

The Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front (SCACUF) was a nonviolent movement seeking the independence of the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. It was an umbrella organization, consisting of several indigenous and English-speaking nationalist movements.[1]

Southern Cameroons Ambazonia Consortium United Front
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ChairpersonSisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe
Merged intoInterim Government of Ambazonia

On October 1, 2017, it declared the restoration of the independence of Ambazonia from a failed federation with French-speaking Cameroun, with Chairperson Sisiku Julius Ayuk Tabe as president,[2] and later transformed itself into the Interim Government of Ambazonia.[3]

The cause of the fracture is rooted in (a) systematic underhand efforts by the 80% majority French-speaking Cameroun political leadership to annihilate[4] the Anglo-Saxon cultural heritage of the former British Southern Cameroons, (b) covert policies to convert the indigenous people into French speakers in an expanded Francafrique, impose civil law practices in common law courts and undermine the Anglo-Saxon educational system, and as well as to (c) grant to imperial France unfettered access to natural resources and the sovereign right to determine the cultural, political and economic choices in Ambazonia as in the Cameroon Republic; all absent the consent of the indigenous people of the former British Southern Cameroons. These grievances ignited the Southern Cameroons (Ambazonia) crisis leading to the proclamation of independence restoration in 2017. The territory gained independence 1 October 1961 from the United Kingdom.

References
  1. Southern Cameroons crisis has marginalized Anglophones seeking independent republic, Nationalia, Dec 28, 2017. Accessed Mar 24, 2019.
  2. "Cameroon's English-speakers call for independence". www.aljazeera.com.
  3. Okereke, C. Nna-Emeka. "Analysing Cameroon’s Anglophone Crisis." Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses 10.3 (2018): 8-12.
  4. The Cameroonian state is the only grave digger in our Constitution, LeMonde online, Paris, 24 January 2017. Accessed March 15, 2020.

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