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The earliest known civilization to have left clear traces of their presence in the territory of modern Cameroon is known as the Sao civilisation. [6] Known for their elaborate terracotta and bronze artwork and round, walled settlements in the Lake Chad Basin, little else is known with any certainty due to the lack of historical records.
After World War II, French Cameroon was made a United Nations Trust Territory and unified into the French Union. From the beginning of the 1940s, colonial authorities encouraged a policy of agricultural diversification into monocultural crops: coffee in the west, cotton in the North and cocoa in the south. Construction of roads allowed for ...
A History of the Great War. Vol. I. Boston and New York: Fb&c Limited. OCLC 558495465. Dane, Edmund (2017) [1919]. British Campaigns in Africa and the Pacific, 1914-1918. London: FB&C Limited. ISBN 9780266310419. Deltombe, Thomas (2011). Kamerun! Une guerre cachée aux origines de la Françafrique (1948 - 1971) (in French). Paris: La Découverte.
In 1911, France ceded Neukamerun (New Cameroon), a large territory to the east of Kamerun, to Germany as a part of the Treaty of Fez, the settlement that ended the Agadir Crisis. In 1914, the German colony of Kamerun made up all of modern Cameroon as well as portions of Nigeria, Chad, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo and the Central African ...
French Cameroon and part of British Cameroon reunified in 1961 to form present-day Cameroon. Notably, this did not end German involvement in Cameroon, as many former German plantation owners bought their plantations back in the 1920s and 30s. [15] It would take until World War II before Germany was "fully out" of Cameroon.
British Cameroons or British Cameroon was a British mandate territory in British West Africa, formed of the Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons. Today, the Northern Cameroons forms parts of the Borno , Adamawa and Taraba states of Nigeria , [ 1 ] while the Southern Cameroons forms part of the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon .
The Cameroon War [a] (also known as the Hidden War, [b] [4] or the Cameroonian War of Independence [c]) is the name of the independence struggle between Cameroon's nationalist movement and France. The movement was spearheaded by the Cameroonian Peoples Union (UPC).
Cameroon, [a] officially the Republic of Cameroon, [b] is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea , Gabon , and the Republic of the Congo to the south.