cameroon
Cameroon is located in Central West Africa. ... There is little known about the Republic of Cameroon. ... Alfred Saker in 1858 finds the first European settlements in what was then Victoria, Cameroon. ... During the next 400 years Southern Cameroon was controlled by the slave trade and the North became a war zone for many empires. ... They are reluctant in making Cameroon a British protectorate. ... Mostly slaves and ivory are exported from Cameroon. ... In the beginning the Portuguese started the slave trade of Cameroon and it went on through the imperial rule by Germany. ... In the 1600’s the Dutch take over the slave trade in Cameroon. ... But German rule was harsh for many of the people in Cameroon. During the imperial rule of Germany the people from Cameroon were becoming slaves and were doing hard labor. ... 1914 the Germans administering Cameroon retreated northward from the coast in the face of advancing French and British troops. The military conflict in Cameroon was more prolonged, lasting from 1914 to 1916. The Germans finally fled Cameroon for Spanish Guinea in Feb. ... In March 1916 the French and British agreed to the partition of Cameroon for administrative purposes. After WWI Cameroon received new overlords courtesy of the League of Nations, which gave the French a mandate over 80% of the territory, and the British control of two separate areas, one in the south-western highlands (Southern Cameroon’s) and the other in the north (Northern Cameroon’s, now part of Nigeria). ... Within a few years the British sold their Cameroon’s holdings back to the Germans.