{"product_id":"2940149221738","title":"Notes on Cameroons Social Democratic Front (SDF)","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.","brand":"TISI BOOKS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084657639664,"sku":"2940149221738","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149221738_p0.jpg?v=1763713822","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149221738","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}