[PDF] The Reunification Debate In British Southern Cameroons eBook

Author : Nfi, Joseph Lon
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9956791679

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This book is a succinct account of the role immigrants from French Cameroon played in the Reunification politics in the Southern Cameroons. The study reveals that these "strangers" organised themselves in Pressure Groups in order to fight for equal opportunities with the indigenes and when such opportunities were not coming, they initiated the Reunification Idea, propagated it and converted many reluctant Southern Cameroonians. They militated in pro-reunification political parties such as the KNC, KNDP, UPC and OK and successfully shifted the reunification idea from the periphery to the centre of Southern Cameroons decolonisation politics. The immigrants convinced the UN through petitions and reunification which was the most unpopular option for independence became one of the two alternatives at the 1961 plebiscite. They and the reluctant KNDP campaigned and voted for it. The Reunification of Cameroon was therefore the handiwork of French Cameroon immigrants.

Author : John Percival
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9956558494

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The United Nations-organised plebiscite on 11 February 1961 was one of the most significant events in the history of the southern and northern parts of the British-administered trust territory in Cameroon. John Percival was sent by the then Colonial Office as part of the team to oversee the process. This book captures the story of the plebiscite in all its dimensions and intricacies and celebrates the author's admiration for things African through a series of reminiscences of what life was like in the 1960s, both for the Africans themselves and for John Percival as a very young man. The complex story is also a series of reflections about the effect of the modern world on Africa. It is a thorough, insightful, rich and enlightening first-hand source on a political landmark that has never been told before in this way. In a vivid style with a great sense of humour, Percival's witty, cogent, eyewitness and active-participant account deconstructs the rumours and misrepresentations about the February 1961 Plebiscite which was a prelude to reunification and to the present day politics of 'belonging' in Cameroon. "One of the major merits of this book is to provide us with a deeper insight into the role of those actors who have never been the subject of plebiscite studies, namely the Plebiscite Supervisory Officers." - Piet Konings, African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands John Percival-Anthropologist, Writer, Television Broadcaster of many innovative BBC series on the environment, history and anthropology. As a young graduate he was recruited and sent to serve in the Southern Cameroons as a Plesbiscite Supervisory Officer in 1961. He died in 2005 after a recent return visit to Cameroon with Nigel Wenban-Smith who writes an epilogue. This posthumous memoir has been edited by his wife, Lalage Neal.

Author : Muhammadou Amadou Jabiru
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 2140147723

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Reunification is a historical fact that carries with it individual narratives and corporate establishment, intrigues inherent in every nation building experiment especially in Africa. This study examines the role played by some of the major actors of the Reunification of Cameroon. Were they just actors or architects? The reader will discover the reasons why we refer to them as "architects" of Cameroon's Reunification.

Author : Yenshu Vubo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9956727962

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The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners the founding fathers of the union and the politics of guile and force that has characterized the regimes in Yaound. From a federal model that takes the equality of the contracting parties as a given, the polity has developed into an ethno-regional patchwork designed by its architects to be essentially unequal in nature. Consequently, the segmented Anglophone community can exist only in contradiction within itself. They have been worked into the regimes statecraft of consciously maintaining or re-activating ethnic boundaries inherited from colonialism. An analysis of the cultural and linguistic dimension of the union shows contrasting drives between the assimilation/attempts to dominate by the French-speaking component and resistance by Anglophones. The analyses further show the projected harmonization and rollback by the State, the creative blends and the crystallization around continuing or reproduced colonial experiences, a fierce competition between elites with a drive to impose the culture of the demographically dominant and a refusal to accept the idea of a linguistic minority. The contentious experience, Yenshu Vubo argues, can still be remedied by reforms in a politics of possibilities.These reforms must be ready to re-examine the constitutional basis of the union by revisiting the often dismissed question of the form of the state defined as one and indivisible (a new federal architecture as requested by several political voices). Institutions should be restructured to attend to diversity issues and essential linguistic differences while consolidating any strategic gains of the union such as the creative blends and the acceptance of specifi cities of each community, statutory equality of citizenship and the essential clauses of the fi rst federation.

Author : Bongfen Chem-Langhëë
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761825043

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This volume deals essentially with the rise and evolution of the nationalist movements in the British Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons (the Cameroons), the factors that conditioned those movements, and how and why their results came to be as they were.

Author : Carlson Anyangwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9956578509

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Among the material are treaties concluded by Britain with Southern Cameroons coastal Kings and Chiefs; and the boundary treaties of the Southern Cameroons, treaties defining the frontiers with Nigeria to the west and the frontier with Cameroun Republic to the east. The book contains documents that attest to the Southern Cameroons as a fully self-governing country, ready for sovereign statehood. These include debates in the Southern Cameroons House of Assembly; and the various Constitutions of the Southern Cameroons. The book also reproduces British declassified documents on the Southern Cameroons covering the three critical years from 1959 to 1961, documents which speak to the inglorious stewardship of Great Britain in the Southern Cameroons. This book removes lingering doubts in some quarters that the people of the Southern Cameroons were cheated of independence. Its contents are further evidence of their inalienable right and sacred duty to assert their independence.

Author : Emmanuel Yenshu
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9956726710

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This book examines the challenges of the bicultural society in Cameroon, including the increasing marginalization experienced by the English-speaking population and growing inequality despite the nation-building aspirations when the country was reunified in 1961.

Author : Janvier Chouteu-Chando
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2018-07-08
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ISBN : 9781983394409

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An excerpt from a February 20, 1962 article in the Guardian Newspaper read "The unification of French-speaking Cameroun with the former British-administered Southern Cameroons is a 'unique experience' in Africa..."The reunification of the two territories marked a milestone in the cause espoused by Cameroonian civic-nationalists to reunite the lands of the 1884-1916 former German colony of Kamerun that was partitioned by Britain and France following the defeat of Germany in the First World War. It was one step forward in realizing the dream of "THE NEW CAMEROON", even though Cameroonian nationalists who weaved the Ideal were being hounded by the French pacification forces, and despite the fact that France had successfully installed a puppet regime in the French-speaking Cameroun under Ahmadou Ahidjo who set about implementing France's game plan, starting with the usurpation of the reunification program and giving it a bad name. Today the reunification project is getting soar, especially among Cameroonians from the former British Southern Cameroons. That is why Cameroonians are asking themselves the question: What is to be done to get rid of an anachronistic French-imposed system that is leaving the country stuck in underdevelopment, corruption, fraud, despondence, dictatorship and division even as the rest of the world is forging ahead?Janvier Tchouteu comes up with some succinct answers in this account that provide the guidelines to the ultimate Cameroonian Dream of the "NEW CAMEROUN" first espoused by Cameroon's civic-nationalists that that were successfully eliminated, sidelined or undermined during sixty years of neocolonialism by France, the puppet Ahidjo regime it put in place in 1960 and its successor the current Biya regime that took over in 1982. Today, Cameroon is at a crossroads. While it is now obvious that the French-imposed system is anachronistic and no longer sustainable and that the political establishment is prepared to drag the country into abyss than bow out of power, Cameroon also risks being torn apart by those who never cherished reunification---people who would like the territory of the former British Southern Cameroons become a separate country. Both groups stand as obstacles to the "New Cameroon" and are delaying the country's journey to take its place as the nucleus of the emerging African Union.