Ernest Forbin is a a Ph.D. student researcher in Political Science in the University of Douala, Cameroon under the supervision of Prof. Medou Ngoa. Moreover, I am invited by Prof. Dr. Michaela Pelican for a 6 month research visit to Cologne to participate in the International research Cluster 2023/24 on the project entitled “ Conflict-Induced Displacement and Socio-Economic Resilience: Learning From Neglected Conflicts in Cameroon and Myanmar.
He obtained a B.Sc. in Political Science from the University Of Yaoundé 2, Soa in 2014 and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the same university in 2018. He started a Ph.D. at the University of Douala in 2022 in the Department of Political sciences.
Enrest's main research interests concern African postcolonial State formation and conflicts, political violence and dissent management with a special focus on colonial carryovers to contemporary conflicts. His dissertation project will address the influence of French colonial legacy on the Cameroonian postcolonial State in their handling contestation in general and Anglophone mobilization groups’ quest for autonomy in particular. He goes further to give insight into the context of illegitimacy and violence that characterized the formation of the Cameroonian postcolonial State and its input in shaping the State actors perception of contestation. Moreover, he equally builds on the role of African precolonial institutions in the reproduction of a highly centralized and autocratic postcolonial State.
