Betrayal of too trusting a people : the UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons / Carlson Anyangwe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anyangwe, Carlson.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cameroon--Politics and government--1960-.

Cameroon.

Cameroon--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (262 p.)

Place of Publication:

Mankon, Bamenda : Langaa Research & Pub. CIG, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeshi

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Chapter One - Historical Background; Chapter Two - Horse and Rider; Chapter Three - A Trust Betrayed by the United Nations; Chapter Four - A Trust Betrayed by the British Government; Chapter Five - A Black Colonialist Makes an Expansionist Claim; Chapter Six - Refutation of the 'History' Thesis; Chapter Seven - Refutation of the 'Consent to Incorporation' Thesis: the Pebiscite in 1961; Chapter Eight - Refutation of the "Consent to Incorporation" Thesis: The Pretended ""Referendum"" in 1972; Chapter Nine - The Bakassi Equation

Chapter Ten - The Matter of SecessionChapter Eleven - Determination not by the "Self ", but by the ""Other""; Chapter Twelve - The 'Independence by Joining' Hoax; Chapter Thirteen - Was the Southern Cameroons Ever Decolonised?; Chapter Fourteen - A Historical Injustice Crying Out to be Set Right; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613197924

9781283197922

1283197928

9789956715480

9956715484

9789956715602

9956715603

9789956615315

9956615315

OCLC:

830166342