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Cameroonian political activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fongum Gorji Dinka is a Cameroonian attorney, political activist, and Fon of the Widikum in northwestern Cameroon.[2][3]
Gorji Dinka was active in the Anglophone Crisis and advocated for more rights for Anglophone Cameroonians, against the Francophone government.[4][5][6] He was the first president of the Cameroon Bar Association,[4] and is also the named party of the Fongum Gorji Dinka v. Cameroon which was tried at the High Court of Justice and United Nations Human Rights Committee.[7] Gorji Dinka also coined the place name Ambazonia, which he first used in 1984.[8][9]
Along with Bernard Fonlon and Carlson Anyangwe he authored The New Social Order, which claimed that the English-Speaking regions of Cameroons had the right to secede from Cameroon.[10][11]
He was arrested in May 1985 for his protests against the government and was detained until February 1986.[12][13] After his release, he escaped to Nigeria.[14]
In a 2005 judgment of the United Nations Human Rights ICCPR, the tribunal ruled in favor of compensation for Fon Gorji-Dinka for human rights abuses to his person and for assurances of the enjoyment of his civil and political rights.[15]
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