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Cameroons

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cameroons Fr. Cameroun, Ger. Kamerun, former German colony, W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea and extending N to Lake Chad. Germany's penetration of the area began in 1884 and by 1902 its possession was recognized. A portion of French Equatorial Africa was added in 1911 in return for the surrender of German rights in Morocco. In World War I, French and British troops occupied the Cameroons. After the war the territory ceded in 1911 was rejoined to French Equatorial Africa, and in 1919 the remainder of the Cameroons was divided into French and British zones, which became mandates under the... Read more
French Cameroons
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition French Cameroons see Cameroons . Author not available, FRENCH CAMEROONS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more
British Cameroons
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition British Cameroons see Nigeria , Federation of; Cameroon , Republic of. Author not available, BRITISH CAMEROONS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008 Read more

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The Paradoxes of Self-Determination in the Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration: The Search for Identity, Well-Being and Continuity
The International Journal of African Historical Studies; 1/1/2006; Quinn, Frederick; 508 words ; The Paradoxes of Self-Determination in the Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration: The Search for Identity ... detailed study on The Paradoxes of Self-Determination in the Cameroons under United Kingdom Administration. The subtitle is The ... Read more
Colonial policies and women's participation in public life: the case of British Southern Cameroons.
African Studies Quarterly; 3/22/2006; Adams, Melinda; 787 words ; ... Drawing from the case of British Southern Cameroons, this paper argues that colonial policies ... INTRODUCTION Colonial encounters in Southern Cameroons affected women in complex and contradictory ... this paper, I use the case of Southern Cameroons to demonstrate that British colonial ... Read more
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland c. 1600 - c. 1960
Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2002; Biedzynski, James; 563 words ; Austen, Ralph A. and Jonathan Derrick. Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland c. 1600 - c. 1960. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 252 pp. The saga of African ... Read more
Guide to The Cameroons.
The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 10/16/2005; 787 words ; ... ties, which fan out from the Georgian terraces of West London to grand country houses in the Home Counties. Nicknamed The Cameroons by the political cognoscenti, they comprise a privileged circle of Old Etonians, baronets and bright ladies who marry well ... Read more
'Cameroons' could save Africa.(COMMENTARY)
The Washington Times; 8/8/2006; 787 words ; ... anything at all. Among the irritating ideas embraced by the Cameroons, as the British press labels today's Conservatives, is their ... of Britain's ailing public service monopolies. Still, the Cameroons have many talented people in their ranks. They also have the ... Read more
The Cameroons are coming New Model Tories
The Independent on Sunday; 9/24/2006; 381 words ; ... occupy those chairs? The Tories, we are constantly told, are coming - though so far we know little about the new generation of "Cameroons", apart from the fact that there are lots of them: with 15,000 people signed up, the Conservative Future youth group has more ... Read more
Why Cameroons won't desert their trendy haunts
The Sunday Telegraph London; 2/26/2006; Rachel Johnson; 508 words ; ... phrase, "Yes! We're all Notting Hill Tories now!'' But the trouble is, labels stick, and I also think that Cameron and his Cameroons will find it almost impossible to shake it off - because they will all want to continue to live in or around trendy Notting ... Read more
Baka's music goes Beyond; Celtic musicians find 'big' music among pygmies in the Cameroons
Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 8/17/2003; Laura Knowles, Correspondent; 787 words ; ... camera, guitar and mandolin and set off for the West African territory to study the Bangombi pygmies of the southeastern Cameroons. They intended to spend six weeks living with the pygmies, absorbing their values and beliefs and producing a single for Cradick ... Read more
Labour couldn't run a whelk stall. But can the Cameroons really do any better?
The Daily Mail (London, England); 5/5/2008; 787 words ; ... victory. Already, there are claims that it has vindicated the Cameroons'strategy of tacking to fashionable Left-wing thinking in order ... the LibDems that brought the Tories to power. The triumphant Cameroons are in danger of missing the point that what happenedlast ... Read more
DAVID AND THE CAMEROONS ROCK BRITAIN.(Black and White Ball, Conservative Party of United Kingdom, David Cameroon)
WWD; 1/6/2006; Conti, Samantha; 787 words ; ... fighting to update the Tories' stuffy, elitist image, and craft more inclusive, broad-based policies. They're known as the Cameroons, after their undisputed new hero, David Cameron, was elected party leader early in December. A graduate of Eton, where generations ... Read more

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