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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: From German Kamerun to British Cameroons, 1884--1961, with special reference to the plantations Abstract: The Republic of Cameroun forms the geographic hinge between West and Central Africa. It became the only geographic zone to be colonized by Germany, Britain and France. The land closest to the semi-active volcano, Mount Cameroon, has been made fertile by long periods of sunshine, rainfall and the addition of volcanic ash. In the 1880's, German businessmen, eager to get in on the European colonization of the continent, seized the coastal zone and later added inland areas, to form their colony of Kamerun. After World War I, German Kamerun was unevenly divided into British Cameroons and French Cameroons. The lives of the local Africans had been changed by the addition of thousands of strangers who came to work on the agricultural estates that the Germans had begun, in order to produce rubber, palm oil, bananas and cacao. Britain attempted to maintain the formerly German held estates but wanted to sell the plantations to individual British families. The sales efforts failed and eventually Britain pushed the southern half of its controlled area into a union with former French Cameroons in 1961. This dissertation puts the European alienation of African Cameroons into historical perspective. Research was done by reading British documents in the United Kingdom and in (former British) Cameroons. Interviews were conducted with former estates managers and former British political officers in the United Kingdom; and with people who were managing the estates at the time of this research (1975-1976), former plantation workers and long-time residents of the plantation zone. |
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