After violent clashes with protesters and growing international pressure, the President, Paul Biya, was forced to legalise
multiparty politics later that year.
Multiparty politics cam alive in 2014 and there are no signs of it going away in the year to come.
It took the UKIP uprising at the local, European elections and by - elections of 2014 for the political establishment to finally wake up to the messy and unpredictable reality of
multiparty politics.
The problem is that the narrative of the 2015 election is about the explosion of
multiparty politics and the uncertainty it brings.
The first is that it places the return to
multiparty politics in Africa of the 1990s in historical perspective.
It effectively introduces a framework for understanding how leaders choose to respond to the pressure to liberalize their political systems, covering the recent history of African politics and providing great detail on the return of
multiparty politics in Africa since the early 1990s.
Some excellent books have been published on the transition to
multiparty politics, but many are now dated.