Freedomland Contra Katongole: Youth Secessionist Politics in Cameroon and the Hauerwasian Trend in African Theology

Theological studies of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon have centred upon the question of secession. Those opposed to the creation of an independent (freedomland) Anglophone state (Ambazonia) draw extensively on the work of Emmanuel Katongole and Stanley Hauerwas, whose outright opposition to the nation state has shaped a number of African theologians. This essay engages the voices of Anglophone young people caught up in the crisis and brings them into dialogue with these professional theologians.