Petitio for our Rights, Fighting for our

Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalists, petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decoloni...