The Past As Prologue Essays On Cameroon (1980-1995)
The Past as Prologue brings together under one collection a number of polemical essays written between 1980 and 1995. These essays were published in various newspapers and news magazines (local as well as foreign). In these essays, the author stakes out his position on some of the burning issues of the day, at a time when freedom of speech, amongst other fundamental freedoms, were in short supply in Cameroon and those who dared to openly criticize either the Ahidjo’s regime or the successor, Biya’s administration, were labeled “subversives” and condemned as “unpatriotic”, earning them a stay in one of the country’s notorious detention centers or worse.
Until he was conferred professor emeritus status following his retirement in 2017, Ndiva Kofele Kale was the University Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University (SMU) Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas, where for almost three decades, he taught courses on Corporate Law, International Law, International Human Rights, and International Litigation and Arbitration. Prior to coming to SMU, Professor Kofele Kale was for three years on the faculty of the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee and before that, taught Political Science for ten years at Governors State University in Illinois.
A product of Kings College, Lagos, Professor Ndiva Kofele Kale attended Beloit College, Wisconsin, as an ASPAU (African Scholarship Program for American Universities) scholar, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts with honors in International Relations. He earned a postgraduate certificate in African Studies, a Masters (1971) and Doctorate (1974) in Comparative/International Politics from Northwestern University Graduate School where he was a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow. He obtained a doctorate in Jurisprudence from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1984, graduating with the Lowden -Wigmore First Prize in International Law.
He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeal for the 7th Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and is a member of the Illinois and Cameroon bars.
Ndiva Kofele Kale practiced Corporate and Securities Law in Chicago at Lord, Bissell and Brook (now Locke Lord LLP). He has litigated a number of human rights cases around the world and served for six years as the Associate Editor of The International Lawyer (the flagship journal of the International Law section of the American Bar Association). An expert on grand corruption (patrimonicide) as a crime under international law, Professor Kofele Kale has written extensively on this subject and is the author of eight books and over forty refereed articles in academic/professional journals, some of which address the socio-political and economic situation in Cameroon.
Pages: 117
Year: 2022
ISBN: ISBN: 978-9956 -454-91-4
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