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The reunification debate in British Southern Cameroons : the role of French Cameroon immigrants / Joseph Lon Nfi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nfi, Joseph Lon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cameroonians--United States.
- Cameroonians.
- Cameroonians--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Cameroon--Emigration and immigration.
- Cameroon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (410 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- The Anglo-French partition of Cameroon
- Immigrations, settlements and occupations of French Cameroonians
- Social life among French Cameroon immigrants
- French Cameroon immigrants and the reunification idea, 1947-1953
- French Cameroon immigrants and reunification politics, 1953-1959
- French Cameroon immigrants and the plebiscite, 1959-1961
- French Cameroon immigrants and reunification talks
- Conclusion
- Sources consulted
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 29, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9789956791583
- 995679158X
- OCLC:
- 880354794
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