Southern West Cameroon revisited. Volume 2, North-South West nexus 1858-1972 /

Southern West Cameroon revisited. Volume 2, North-South West nexus 1858-1972 /

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Author / Creator:	Ndi, Anthony, author.
Imprint:	North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, [2014] ©2014
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 255 pages) : color illustrations, photographs, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Limbe (Cameroon) -- History. Cameroon -- Limbe. History. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11225984

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ISBN:	9789956791101 9956791105 9789956791323 9956791326
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 2, 2014).
Summary:	This book argues that Southern Cameroons up to the late 1960s had extensively developed an evolved mature, political culture. It was amazingly led by a range of: simple, visionary, austere, honest, peace-loving and realistic leaders, almost without exception; vintage products of their epoch. Distinguished by good governance; throughout it organized frequent free, fair and transparent elections, peaceful handover of power and enjoyed free primary and adult education. It was further crowned with an ideal, efficient civil service, literally, corruption free. In fact, the period, 1955-1968 in the history of Southern Cameroons qualifies as a "Golden Age" for that nostalgic state, whose citizens were repeatedly referred to as "nice, peace loving, loyal, good and hospitable people" by administrators, missionaries, visitors and those who got to know them closely. The most remarkable observation however, was that finally made by Malcolm Milne, the greatest critic, who noted that during his last couple of years in the Southern Cameroons administration, he dealt with: "People of high intelligence who knew exactly what they wanted." Of the civil servants, he maintains that they had greatly enriched his time in the colonial service; "There was something very special about that corps; their service was their watch word." This superlative description by Malcolm Milne was being made of a combination of the people of the present North and South West Regions, whom he saw as a socio-cultural, economic and political unit. It is therefore obvious that from 1955 - 1968, Southern West Cameroon came close towards becoming an ideal state.
Other form:	Print version: Ndi, Anthony. Southern West Cameroon revisited. Volume 2, North-South West nexus 1858-1972. North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, ©2014 xviii, 225 pages 9789956791323

Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledgements
Independence and reunification : an analysis of basic issues
Grassland, forest and coast
North and south west : factors in reunification
Southern Cameroons : political maturity
President Ahidjo : alpha and omega
Postscript
Historiography
Epilogue
Appendices (I-VI)
Bibliography
Index.