The SDF-ization of Cameroon's opposition

The author recounts the promising early years of the SDF, once Cameroon's leading opposition party, before describing John Fru Ndi's decision not to defend the people's claimed electoral victory in 1992. At a rally in Mbouda after his period under house arrest, Fru Ndi reportedly said he would not “walk over the blood of Cameroonians to go to Etoudi.” Titus Edzoa, then secretary-general of the presidency, later wrote in his memoirs that he had visited the elected president at Ntarikon Palace while he was detained. The excerpt ends before the analysis continues.