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The Southwest Region or South-West Region ( French: Région du Sud-Ouest) is a region in Cameroon. Its capital is Buea. [2] As of 2015, its population was 1,553,320. Along with the Northwest Region, it is one of the two Anglophone (English-speaking) regions of Cameroon. Various Ambazonian nationalist and separatist factions regard the Sud-Ouest ...
The Southern Cameroons now constitute the Southwest Region and Northwest Region. The Southern Cameroons was the southern part of the British League of Nations mandate territory of the British Cameroons in West Africa. Since 1961, it has been part of the Republic of Cameroon, where it makes up the Northwest Region and Southwest Region.
Cameroon was a source of slaves for the slave trade. While the northern part of Cameroon was subject to influence from the Islamic kingdoms in the Chad basin and the Sahel, the south was largely ruled by small kings, chieftains, and fons. Cameroon as a political entity emerged from the colonization of Africa by Europeans.
History Beginnings Fort Hill, photographed in 1887, was the home of John C. Calhoun and later Thomas Green Clemson and is at the center of the university campus.. Thomas Green Clemson, the university's founder, came to the foothills of South Carolina in 1838, when he married Anna Maria Calhoun, daughter of John C. Calhoun, the South Carolina politician and seventh U.S. Vice President.
Cameroon (/ ˌ k æ m ə ˈ r uː n / ⓘ CAM-ə-ROON; French: Cameroun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (French: République du Cameroun), 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.
Clemson (/ ˈ k l ɛ m p s ən, ˈ k l ɛ m z ən /) is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is home to Clemson University ; in 2015, the Princeton Review cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for " town-and-gown " relations with its resident university. [8]
The West Region ( French: Région de l'Ouest) is 14,000 km 2 of territory located in the central-western portion of the Republic of Cameroon. It borders the Northwest Region to the northwest, the Adamawa Region to the northeast, the Centre Region to the southeast, the Littoral Region to the southwest, and the Southwest Region to the west.
The South Province ( Sud) lies on the Gulf of Guinea and the southern border. Cameroon's western region is split into four smaller regions: The Littoral ( Littoral) and Southwest ( Sud-Ouest) regions are on the coast, and the Northwest ( Nord-Ouest) and West ( Ouest) regions are in the western grassfields. The Northwest and Southwest were once ...