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By Mark Dike DeLancey, Rebecca Mbuh, Mark W. Delancey
Cameroon is a rustic endowed with quite a few climates and agricultural environments, a number of minerals, titanic forests, and a dynamic inhabitants. it's a kingdom that are meant to be a pacesetter of Africa. as an alternative, we discover a rustic virtually paralyzed by way of corruption and terrible administration, a rustic with a low lifestyles expectancy and severe illnesses, and a rustic from which the main proficient and hugely knowledgeable participants of the inhabitants are emigrating in huge numbers. even if Cameroon has made monetary growth in view that independence, it has no longer been in a position to switch the based nature of its economic climate. the industrial state of affairs mixed with the dismal checklist of its political heritage, point out that clients for political balance, justice, and prosperity are dimmer than they've been for many of the country's self reliant existence.The fourth version of the historic Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon has been up-to-date to mirror advances within the research of Cameroon's background in addition to to supply insurance of the years because the final version. It relates the turbulent heritage of Cameroon via a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over six hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on major folks, occasions, areas, firms, and different features of Cameroon heritage from the earliest instances to the current.
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The areas were attached to their colony, Nigeria, and, in the eyes of many Cameroonians, the British mandate/trust became the colony of a colony. This neglect, coupled with the influx of numerous Nigerian migrants into Southern Cameroons, caused great resentment. The major economic activity in Southern Cameroons was agriculture. Most of the German plantations were located here, and after a brief period of control by colonial officials, these returned to German control— which lasted until World War II.
In 2007 he became a member of the new National Anti-Corruption Commission. He is chair of the board of directors of the University of Ngaoundéré. He wields more influence as one of two vice secretaries-general of the CPDM and through his role on its central committee. ADMINISTERING AUTHORITIES. European countries were empowered to exercise control of respective territories under the auspices of the League of Nations and the United Nations. The former German protectorate of Kamerun was turned over to administering authorities at the end of World War I.
The population of almost 19 million persons is rapidly becoming an urban population with 57 percent living in urban areas (2008). 2 years. 3 in 2009. The major cities are Douala and Yaoundé; smaller cities include Limbe, Kumba, Bamenda, Garoua, Maroua, Ngaoundéré, Foumban, Edéa, and Bafoussam. Health issues are a major obstacle to economic development. 69 years, a very low figure, ranking 176th of 195 countries for the period 2005 to 2010. 1 percent of the population is HIVϩ, but malaria is a more serious problem.