Journal of Research and Education(JRE)

Saint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Pedagogy of Destruction: School Boycotts as Societal Warfare and the Manufacture of Human Capital Catastrophe in Cameroon's Ambazonia Conflict
  Author(s): Januarius Asongu*
  
  This article examines the catastrophic consequences of the sustained school boycott strategy in Cameroon's Anglophone conflict. We argue that what separatist leaders termed the "broken pencil" strategy has backfired, engineering a profound case of coerced cognitive depletion. Through the systematic dismantling of education, the conflict has forced the exodus of over two-thirds of the region's professional class while depriving an estimated 850,000 children of years of schooling, creating a permanent "lost generation." This dual assault on present and future human capital has triggered institutional collapse in healthcare and justice, transformed a productive economy into a remittance-dependent periphery, and ironically accelerated the Francophone assimilation it sought to prevent. The article concludes that the weaponization of education has fundamentally u.. Read More»
  

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