Ntone Edjabe, Founder and Editor, Chimurenga

“Le Cameroun c’est le Cameroun” is a famous formula invented by President Paul Biya to articulate a presumed pathological matrix in which the country has been caught throughout the postcolonial era. is proverb falsely suggests that Cameroon
is only speakable through Cameroon – an exceptionalist discourse frequently used by dictatorial regimes across the world. rough this careful and timely study, Annette Schemmel reconnects the country’s own visual arts history to trends, discourses and inherent blind spots in the global art system from the second half of the 20th century onward. On her way, the author also slays the myth-monument of the “Autodidact African Artist”