Notes on Cameroons Social Democratic Front (SDF)

The Social Democratic Front (SDF), Cameroon's most powerful political party in the 1990s which won the 1992 presidential elections that was usurped by the regime of incumbent Paul Biya, is in a terminal decline today following its transformation from what was once a mass movement to found the NEW CAMEROON, into a business in the first decade of 2000s, and as it morphs into a racket that helps to sustain the anachronistic French-imposed system which the vast majority of Cameroonians reject.

Many pundits are in a haze as to why there has been this transformation, with everything taking place under the 24-year leadership of the John Fru Ndi, a former member of the ruling CPDM party, who led in the formation of the SDF, posing as a Cameroonian patriot in the tradition of Kamerunism ( Cameroonian union-nationalism) that hundreds of thousands of Cameroonians fought and died for to realize the country's reunification and independence, an ideal that won the day in the 1961 plebiscite that saw British Southern Cameroons voting to reunite with the former French Cameroun, all territories of the former German colony of Kamerun.

This collection provides some of the answers to the riddle of the SDF's transformation from a mass movement into a business and into a racket.