num_pages: 530
description: Cameroon is a country endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments numerous minerals substantial forests and a dynamic population. It is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. Although Cameroon has made economic progress since independence it has not been able to change the dependent nature of its economy. The economic situation combined with the dismal record of its political history indicate that prospects for political stability justice and prosperity are dimmer than they have been for most of the country's independent existence.The fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been updated to reflect advances in the study of Cameroon's history as well as to provide coverage of the years since the last edition. It relates the turbulent history of Cameroon through a chronology an introductory essay a bibliography and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons events places organizations and other aspects of Cameroon history from the earliest times to the present.
language: English
title: Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (Volume 113) (Historical Dictionaries of Africa
publisher: Scarecrow Press