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Normally, the slaves from Cameroon were bought cheap, because they preferred to die rather than accept slavery. [7] However, many captured Cameroonians were sold up the river to areas like Sierra Leona and Angola, where they were forcibly shipped to the United States.
The Anglophone Crisis (French: Crise anglophone), also known as the Ambazonia War, [11] is an ongoing armed conflict in the English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon, between the Cameroonian government and Ambazonian separatist groups, part of the long-standing Anglophone problem. [12]
The Cameroon coast was a major hub for the purchase of slaves who were taken across the Atlantic to Brazil, the United States, and the Caribbean. In 1807, the British abolished slavery in the Empire and began military efforts to suppress the slave trade , particularly in West Africa.
Illustration from the book The Child Slaves of Britain. Child slavery and forced labor continues to be a problem in the 21st century. Mainly driven by the culture in certain regions, early or forced marriage is a form of slavery that affects millions of women and girls all over the world. When families cannot support their children, the ...
I am most of the time summoned to meetings by radio without any courtesy of my consultation on the agenda. All projects of the former West Cameroon I had either initiated or held very dear to my heart had to be taken over, mismanaged and ruined, e.g. Cameroon Bank, West Cameroon Marketing Board, WADA in Wum, West Cameroon Cooperative Movement.
On a Sunday morning at a church in Madison, Wisconsin, a Cameroonian immigrant feels at home despite being thousands of miles away from his loved ones. Ngwa Augustine says he owes his life to this ...
The origin can be traced back to World War I, when Cameroon was known as the German colony of Kamerun. Germany first gained influence in Cameroon in 1845 when Alfred Saker of the Baptist Missionary Society introduced a mission station. [3] In 1860, German merchants established a factory: the Woermann Company. [3]
Akam, an outspoken critic of President Paul Biya's administration, was last seen in a video circulated online that showed him handcuffed and surrounded by Cameroonian police near the border with ...