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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806865403321

Autore

Anyangwe Carlson

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-283-19792-8

9956-715-48-4

9786613197924

9956-715-60-3

9956-615-31-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

966

Soggetti

Cameroon Politics and government 1960-

Cameroon History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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