John Fru Ndi of Cameroon's Social Democratic Front: The Transformation of a Great Political Movement into a Political Business, and then into a Political Racket

In this account of the rise and fall of a once historic political movement that was at the forefront of sub-Saharan Africa's democratization forces against the continent's autocratic regimes in the 1990s, we see how John Fru Ndi who by default in 1990 became the leader of the Social Democratic Front (SDF), led the party to commit political suicide in a process that transformed the SDF from a political movement into a political business, and then into a political racket, during his two-and-a...