The reunification debate in British Southern Cameroons
Subtitle: the role of French Cameroon immigrants
By: Joseph Lon Nfi
Publisher: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG; Langaa RPCIG
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Mankon, Bamenda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9789956791675
Subjects: Decolonization; History; Cameroonians; Social conditions; Immigrants; Politics and government; Emigration and immigration
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index.

Foreword in French.