Research Article
Cameroon and Germany: A Hundred Years of Breakdown and Continuity 1916-2016 “Kamerun Territoriality: Disruption or Breakdown and Continuity”
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 1, June 2025
Pages:
1-6
Received:
26 November 2024
Accepted:
11 December 2024
Published:
7 January 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.history.20251301.11
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Abstract: German Kamerun broke down and ceased to exist in 1916 after its new acquisitions were seized by the French and the initial territory partitioned into two new unique territories of British Cameroon and French Cameroun. The British soon decided to divide their small and narrow territory into separate administrative units of Southern Cameroons and Northern Cameroons. From 1916 to 1961, both the British and French territories separately bore in its territory a little semblance of Old Kamerun and in connection with Germany. In 1960, French Cameroun gained independence from France. But the British Southern Cameroons that also had a functional government was denied outright independence and compelled to unite with the other in 1961 in a clumsy effort to reunite former Kamerun. The British Northern Cameroons that did not have a single administration integrated permanently with Nigeria. The new united Cameroon Federation began to relate with Germany no longer as separate countries but as one country, although without those factors like language and culture that had brought the defunct Kamerun and Germany closer together. Yet the written name of the territories in different languages continued to sound the same. In addition, some vestiges of the old German past were still inheritances of modern Cameroon as well as some functional remnants of the Old Kamerun frontiers. Thus from 1916 to 2016 the separate territories and, later the united Cameroon continued to maintain a continual relationship with Germany and the Germans.
Abstract: German Kamerun broke down and ceased to exist in 1916 after its new acquisitions were seized by the French and the initial territory partitioned into two new unique territories of British Cameroon and French Cameroun. The British soon decided to divide their small and narrow territory into separate administrative units of Southern Cameroons and Nor...
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