LEADER 03348nam 2200601 450 001 9910787983403321 005 20230126212301.0 010 $a9956-791-58-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000548493 035 $a(EBL)1656547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001216971 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11694368 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001216971 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11202301 035 $a(PQKB)10137931 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1656547 035 $a(OCoLC)880354794 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35252 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1656547 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10852085 035 $a(OCoLC)875097218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000548493 100 $a20140331h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe reunification debate in British Southern Cameroons $ethe role of French Cameroon immigrants /$fJoseph Lon Nfi 210 1$aNorth West Region, Cameroon :$cLangaa RPCIG,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (410 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-791-67-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAcknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Anglo-French partition of Cameroon -- Immigrations, settlements and occupations of French Cameroonians -- Social life among French Cameroon immigrants -- French Cameroon immigrants and the reunification idea, 1947-1953 -- French Cameroon immigrants and reunification politics, 1953-1959 -- French Cameroon immigrants and the plebiscite, 1959-1961 -- French Cameroon immigrants and reunification talks -- Conclusion -- Sources consulted -- Index. 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aCameroonians$zUnited States 606 $aCameroonians$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aCameroon$xEmigration and immigration 615 0$aCameroonians 615 0$aCameroonians$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aImmigrants$xSocial conditions. 676 $a967.11 700 $aNfi$b Joseph Lon$01550045 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787983403321 996 $aThe reunification debate in British Southern Cameroons$93808584 997 $aUNINA