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As a result of the Berlin Conference Cameroon became part of the German Empire in 1884 [2] Indirect contact took place in the fifteenth century when the Portuguese arrived at the northern coast of present-day Cameroon, but the German explorer Dr Eugen Zintgraff made the first direct European contact with the Bafut in April 1889.
The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in German newspaper Die Gartenlaube The conference of Berlin, as illustrated in Illustrirte Zeitung. The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of colonial powers that concluded with the signing of the General Act of Berlin, [1] an agreement regulating European colonisation and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period.
The Berlin Conference (known as the ‘West Africa Conference’ [24] [25] [26] or the ‘Congo Conference’) convened in November 1884, and remained in session until February 1885. [27] The General Act of the conference made no mention of Togo, Kamerun or any specific territory other than the basin of the Congo. [28]
Following the Berlin Conference, the British, Italians, and Ethiopians sought to claim lands inhabited by the Somalis. The Dervish movement, led by Sayid Muhammed Abdullah Hassan, existed for 21 years, from 1899 until 1920. The Dervish movement successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region.
In 1884, pursuant to the Berlin Conference, colonies were officially established on the African west coast, often in areas already inhabited by German missionaries and merchants. The following year gunboats were dispatched to East Africa to contest the Sultan of Zanzibar 's claims of sovereignty over the mainland in what is today Tanzania .
Cameroonian theatre production starts well before the annexation of Cameroon by the Germans at the Berlin Conference. [4] Traditional ceremonies and rituals, which are made of a combination of dance, music, spoken word and mime, can be seen as forms of theatrical performance. [5]
Quinn, F. (1973). "An African Reaction to World War I: The Beti of Cameroon". Cahiers d'études africaines. XIII (52). Paris: Éditions EHESS (France). ISSN 1777-5353. Yearwood, Peter J. (January 1998). "The expatriate firms and the Colonial economy of Nigeria in the First World War". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 26 (1): 49 ...
The Cameroon–Chad border is 1,116 km (693 mi) in length and runs from the tripoint with Nigeria in the ... The process culminated in the Berlin Conference of 1884, ...