Betrayal of Too Trusting a People

The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons

Carlson Anyangwe

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9789956558810
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956715602
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia africana

There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter One - Historical Background
• Chapter Two - Horse and Rider
• Chapter Three - A Trust Betrayed by the United Nations
• Chapter Four - A Trust Betrayed by the British Government
• Chapter Five - A Black Colonialist Makes an Expansionist Claim
• Chapter Six - Refutation of the ‘History’ Thesis
• Chapter Seven - Refutation of the ‘Consent to Incorporation’ Thesis: the Pebiscite in 1961
• Chapter Eight - Refutation of the “Consent to Incorporation” Thesis: The Pretended "Referendum" in 1972
• Chapter Nine - The Bakassi Equation
• Chapter Ten - The Matter of Secession
• Chapter Eleven - Determination not by the “Self ”, but by the "Other"
• Chapter Twelve - The ‘Independence by Joining’ Hoax
• Chapter Thirteen - Was the Southern Cameroons Ever Decolonised?
• Chapter Fourteen - A Historical Injustice Crying Out to be Set Right
• Back cover