Herrick Mouafo has been involved with the student protests in Cameroon since 2004. He argues that one of the direct objective of this movement was to balance power relationships between the students and the ruling party in order to make students' voices heard, to be equal or even more powerful than the government in order to reach their objectives. For that, the students and their partners had to bypass the government's repression and to use struggle strategies that are more powerful than the government's strategies.In an interview with Charlotte Monetil from the masters program on International Development Studies at the Institute for Alpine Geography, he explained its methods of nonviolent struggle and the process of building a social movement. Read the interview