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Dr Amber Murrey
@ambermurrey.bsky.social
Intellectual working on dissent & protest, Thomas Sankara, extraction, geopolitics of knowledge; Associate Prof @ Oxford Geography, Fulbright Scholar in Cameroon, author @ Pluto Press, editor @ African Geographical Review, advisory member @ Pambazuka News
Ahead of Cameroon’s Presidential Elections this Sunday, I’ve published a new piece in Dialogues on Digital Society examining how lawfare is weaponised to silence online dissent & criticism.

🇨🇲 Digital Authoritarianism and Elite Impunity in Cameroon
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Weaponizing cyber defamation: Digital authoritarianism and elite impunity in Cameroon - Amber Murrey, 2025
This commentary critiques a weaponisation of cyber defamation laws in Cameroon as an instrument of digital authoritarianism and political oppression, highlighti...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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NEW EP mikaela nhondo erskog joins us to discuss the terrific Tricontinental dossier on hyperimperialism and how burkina faso, mali, and niger are navigating this new decadent stage of monopoly capitalism in their fight for sovereignty
NEXT WEEK'S PATREON
alliance of sahel states pt. 3: hyperimperialism and the fight for sovereignty w/ mikaela nhondo erskog
September 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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🎥 Le chercheur Patrick Belinga Ondoua a regardé #Indomptables, le dernier film de Thomas #Ngijol... Pour lui, "les espaces [du film] ne sont pas des décors : ils sont les cadres actifs d’une réalité sociale camerounaise"⤵️
Indomptables. Les fractures de la société camerounaise au scalpel
Au-delà du policier salué par la critique en France, Indomptables, le long-métrage de Thomas Ngijol, en salle depuis juin, offre un regard subtil sur les fractures et les instabilités du Cameroun, (…)
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September 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The calculated exclusion of opposition leaders from #Cameroon’s upcoming presidential election is a consequence of more than four decades of deliberate authoritarian political architecture: www.pambazuka.org/Political-Re... @pambazukanews.bsky.social
Political Repression in the Lead Up to Cameroon’s October 2025 Presidential Election | Pambazuka News
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September 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🔥Read #Issue903 for instructive contents on imperial restructuring, #Turkey's turn to Africa, the demise of #USAID, #NATO, #DRC-#Barca FC sponsorship deal, and demands for transformation in #Africa.
🖱️Access the contents at: pambazuka.org
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August 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The RACE working group of the Royal Geographical Society (@rgsibg.bsky.social) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Register for The Azeezat Johnson Memorial RACE Pre-Conference Event 2025: tinyurl.com/nhfmv3hp
Register for The Azeezat Johnson Memorial RACE Pre-Conference Event 2025
Please use the below form to register for this event, and direct any questions to Charden Pouo Moutsouka at charden.pouomoutsouka@sjc.ox.ac.uk. Date/Time: Tuesday 26 August, 10:00–12:30, followed by l...
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August 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
An excellent discussion of Musab Younis’ book, “On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought” - online at Antipode antipodeonline.org/2025/03/18/o...
Book Review Forum — Musab Younis’ “On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought” - Antipode Online
Joseph Ward (University of Oxford) and Alexandra Reza (University of Bristol) on Musab Younis’ On the Scale of the World: The Formation of Black Anticolonial Thought—with a response from the author Re...
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March 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My work with Prof Sharlene Mollett, "Extraction is not a metaphor: Decolonial and Black Geographies against the gendered and embodied violence of extractive logics" is one of the #TopCitedPapers in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers @wiley.com - read it shorturl.at/jg6oI #geography
March 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Pambazuka imerudi!
great relaunch of a beloved platform.
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Welcome Back to Pambazuka News | Pambazuka News
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March 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM