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Title:The Reunification Question in Cameroon History: Was the Bride an Enthusiastic or a Reluctant One?
Author:Awasom, Nicodemus F.ISNI
Year:2000
Periodical:Africa Today
Volume:47
Issue:2
Period:Spring
Pages:91-119
Language:English
Geographic terms:British Cameroons
Cameroon
Subjects:separatism
State formation
colonialism
History and Exploration
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Ethnic and Race Relations
Politics and Government
External link:http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/africa_today/v047/47.2awasom.pdf
Abstract:On 11 February 1961, the United Nations organized plebiscites in the British Southern and Northern Cameroons. In the British Southern Cameroons, the electorate overwhelmingly voted for reunification with the former French Cameroons. Since the 1990s the reunification discourse has generated controversy in Cameroon. It hinges on the issue of the degree of commitment of Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonians to its realization. This essay provides a chronological, comprehensive and critical survey of the reunification question. The author argues that reunification was a minority ideology confined largely to Cameroon people of the Southwestern quadrant. That notwithstanding, its chief proponents were Francophones who conceived it, propagated it, and sustained it until the United Nations recognized it in the 1960s. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum.
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