TY - BOOK ID - 78641663 TI - The reunification debate in British Southern Cameroons : the role of French Cameroon immigrants PY - 2014 SN - 995679158X 9789956791583 9956791679 9789956791675 9789956791675 PB - North West Region, Cameroon : Langaa RPCIG, DB - UniCat KW - Decolonization KW - Sovereignty KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Colonization KW - Postcolonialism KW - History. KW - Cameroon KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Cameroonians KW - Immigrants KW - Ethnology KW - Social conditions. KW - Cameron KW - Camerun KW - Camerŵn KW - Federal Republic of Cameroon KW - Gweriniaeth Camerŵn KW - Jumhūrīyah al-Kāmīrūn KW - Kamailong KW - Kameroen KW - Kameron KW - Kameroun KW - Kamerun (Republic) KW - Kamerunská republika KW - Kāmīrūn KW - Republic of Cameroon KW - Republica de Camerún KW - Rèpublica du Cameron KW - Republiek van Kameroen KW - Republik Kameroun KW - Republik Kamerun KW - Republika Kamerun KW - République du Cameroun KW - République fédérale du Cameroun KW - République unie du Cameroun KW - Rėspublika Kamerun KW - State of Cameroon KW - United Republic of Cameroon KW - Рэспубліка Камерун KW - Република Камерун KW - Камерун (Republic) KW - جمهورية الكاميرون KW - كاميرون KW - 喀麦隆 KW - Cameroun KW - Kamerun KW - Emigration and immigration. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78641663 AB - This book is a succinct account of the role immigrants from French Cameroon played in the Reunification politics in the Southern Cameroons. The study reveals that these "strangers" organised themselves in Pressure Groups in order to fight for equal opportunities with the indigenes and when such opportunities were not coming, they initiated the Reunification Idea, propagated it and converted many reluctant Southern Cameroonians. They militated in pro-reunification political parties such as the KNC, KNDP, UPC and OK and successfully shifted the reunification idea from the periphery to the centre of Southern Cameroons decolonisation politics. The immigrants convinced the UN through petitions and reunification which was the most unpopular option for independence became one of the two alternatives at the 1961 plebiscite. They and the reluctant KNDP campaigned and voted for it. The Reunification of Cameroon was therefore the handiwork of French Cameroon immigrants. ER -