Africa’s Second Independence

Issue Date Summer 1991
Volume 2
Issue 3
Page Numbers 60-63
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About the Author

Bernard Muna is president of the Cameroon Bar Association. In 1987 he was elected president of the Central African Union of Lawyers, made up of lawyers from ten countries. He is active internationally in the field of human rights, and was-instrumental in the development of a model human rights charter for developing nations.

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