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UNINA9910814432503321 |
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Titolo |
In chains for my country : crusading for the British Southern Cameroons / / Nfor N. Nfor |
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Bamenda, Cameroon : , : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (182 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Cameroon |
Cameroon History |
Cameroon Social conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Difficult to believe -- The real world of Bamenda Central Prison -- Within the iron fence -- The bitter-sweet -- Through the eyes of prison detention -- Not the first of its kind -- A taste of hell by extension -- The root of the reign of evil -- It knows no limits -- Fifty-six theses justifying the restoration of the statehood of British Southern Cameroons -- Poems -- Conclusion. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Chains for My Country is an account of the struggle of the Southern Cameroons National Council (SCNC), a nonviolent liberation movement, to wrestle British Southern Cameroons from the colonial claws of la Republique du Cameroun. It is an epic and thrilling account of the life of British Southern Cameroons, which passed from colonial rule to foreign domination through annexation and attempted assimilation into neighbouring la Republique du Cameroun. Under British trusteeship, British Southern Cameroons graduated to self-government in 1954 with all hopes of independence. Instead, the Trust Territory was doomed to subservience in a contested union with la Republique du Cameroun. Failure to implement United Nations Resolution 1608 of April 1961 to establish the envisioned federation of two states equal in status facilitated la Republique du Cameroun's annexation and colonial occupation of a defenseless United Nations Trust as Britain withdrew all |
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