British Cameroon

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/british-cameroon

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the referendum date?February 11, 1961, for Southern Cameroons; May 1961 for Northern Cameroons
2. What is the post-mandate integration?Southern Cameroons joined Cameroon; Northern Cameroons joined Nigeria
3. What was British Cameroons?British Cameroons was a part of the former German colony of Kamerun that Britain took over after World War I. It was split into a northern and a southern region and was run as part of British Nigeria.
4. Why were the northern and southern parts of British Cameroons different?The north was mostly savanna land with Fulani and Hausa people who liked to herd animals, while the south had forests and farms and many different ethnic groups like the Bamileke and Duala.

Mandate System: A legal status for territories transferred from one country to another after WWI, intended for their development towards independence.
Uti Possidetis Juris: A principle of international law stating that newly formed states should retain the borders of the former administrative divisions.
Anglophone Crisis: An ongoing conflict in Cameroon stemming from perceived marginalization of English-speaking regions, rooted in historical administrative divisions.