LEADER 03547nam 2200541 450 001 9910464102903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-791-10-5 035 $a(CKB)2670000000548489 035 $a(EBL)1656543 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001217265 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11687737 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001217265 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11203684 035 $a(PQKB)11182334 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1656543 035 $a(OCoLC)880369363 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35248 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1656543 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852092 035 $a(OCoLC)875097029 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000548489 100 $a20140402h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSouthern West Cameroon revisited$hVolume 2$iNorth-South West nexus 1858-1972 /$fAnthony Ndi 210 1$aNorth West Region, Cameroon :$cLangaa RPCIG,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (278 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-791-32-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreface -- Acknowledgements -- Independence and reunification : an analysis of basic issues -- Grassland, forest and coast -- North and south west : factors in reunification -- Southern Cameroons : political maturity -- President Ahidjo : alpha and omega -- Postscript -- Historiography -- Epilogue -- Appendices (I-VI) -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThis book argues that Southern Cameroons up to the late 1960's had extensively developed an evolved mature, political culture. It was amazingly led by a range of: simple, visionary, austere, honest, peace-loving and realistic leaders, almost without exception; vintage products of their epoch. Distinguished by good governance; throughout it organized frequent free, fair and transparent elections, peaceful handover of power and enjoyed free primary and adult education. It was further crowned with an ideal, efficient civil service, literally, corruption free. In fact, the period, 1955-1968 in the history of Southern Cameroons qualifies as a "Golden Age" for that nostalgic state, whose citizens were repeatedly referred to as "nice, peace loving, loyal, good and hospitable people" by administrators, missionaries, visitors and those who got to know them closely. The most remarkable observation however, was that finally made by Malcolm Milne, the greatest critic, who noted that during his last couple of years in the Southern Cameroons administration, he dealt with: "People of high intelligence who knew exactly what they wanted." Of the civil servants, he maintains that they had greatly enriched his time in the colonial service; "There was something very special about that corps; their service was their watch word." This superlative description by Malcolm Milne was being made of a combination of the people of the present North and South West Regions, whom he saw as a socio-cultural, economic and political unit. It is therefore obvious that from 1955 - 1968, Southern West Cameroon came close towards becoming an ideal state. 607 $aLimbe (Cameroon)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a967.11 700 $aNdi$b Anthony$0888796 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464102903321 996 $aSouthern West Cameroon revisited$91994698 997 $aUNINA