Betrayal of too trusting a people : the UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons
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 Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case
eBook, English, ©2009
Langaa Research & Pub. CIG ; Distributed in N. American by Michigan State University Press, Mankon, Bamenda, [East Lansig, Mich.], ©2009
History
1 online resource (x, 249 pages)
9789956715602, 9789956558810, 9789956615315, 9956715603, 9956558818, 9956615315
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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