Cyber‐nationalism: the imagined Anglophone Cameroon community in cyberspace

Abstract

Today, with the help of technology, new economies, dominated by information and communication technology have created opportunities for previously suppressed voices to emerge. These technologies of persuasion and dissemination in the public sphere have helped Anglophone Cameroonians to popularize their claims on the Internet. This article argues that though silenced within Cameroon, Anglophone voices critical of the government can still be heard virtually on the Internet. An in‐depth discussion of the various virtual communities of Anglophone Cameroon found in cyberspace will be made and an explanation provided as to why Anglophones had to resort to this new technology of persuasion as an instrumental tool to articulate their nationalism as opposed to the older form of nationalism that requires proximity. As a result, the government of Cameroon finds itself challenged by sub‐nationalism in Anglophone Cameroon.