While German was Cameroon’s official language for many years under German colonial rule, it has since been largely subsumed by French, English, and native mother tongues. That said, many Cameroonians still study German as a foreign language at school and there are believed to be around 300,00...
Monga, Yvette D. " The Emergence of Duala Cocoa Planters under German Rule in Cameroon: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship" in William Gervase Clarence-Smith (ed.), Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800 : the Role of Smallholders, Planters, and Merchants . New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996,...
1.(Placename) a republic in West Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea: became a German colony in 1884; divided in 1919 into theCameroons(administered by Britain) andCameroun(administered by France); Cameroun and the S part of the Cameroons formed a republic in 1961 (the N part joined Nigeria...
British rule was a period of neglect, and this, coupled with the influx of numerous Nigerians, caused great resentment. The old German plantations were eventually united into a single parastatal (government-owned enterprise), the Cameroon Development Corporation, and were the mainstay of the ...
The oppressive foreign rule caused a new wave of uprisings—around Bacho in 1904, in Bamenda in 1904–07, in the Dja-Nyong interfluve in 1905–07, and on the Adamaoua Plateau in 1907. These uprisings were suppressed by German punitive detachments. ...
Beginning in 1884, all of present-day Cameroon and parts of several of its neighbors became the German colony of Kamerun, with a capital first at Buea and later at Yaounde. After World War I, this colony was partitioned between Britain and France under a June 28, 1919 League of Nations...
This was the famous Germano-Duala Treaty of July 12, 1884 which officially placed the coast of Cameroon under German influence and control. A few years later, the Germans penetrated and explored the hinterland and annexed and or conquered the interior ethnic groups and thus created Cameroon1 ....
German sovereignty in 1884 that was succeeded by French and British rule after World War I58. Following these events, parts of Nigeria, Chad, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea today were parts of Cameroon under the German and subsequently French and British rule23. ...
Cameroon rather than join Nigeria, Bakassi remained under Nigerian administration. After several border clashes with Nigeria over Bakassi and a northern region near Lake Chad, Cameroon took the issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1994. With special reference to the Anglo-German Tre...
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