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<\/a>Cameroon is home to over 250 native languages spoken by nearly 20 million people. The official languages of Cameroon are French and English, the languages of former colonial French Cameroons<\/a> and British Cameroons<\/a>. The country is often referred to as “Africa in miniature” for its geological and cultural diversity. Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rain forests, and savannas. The highest point at almost 13,500 feet is Mount Cameroon<\/a> in the Southwest Region of the country, and the largest cities in population-terms are Douala<\/a> on the Wouri<\/a> river, its economic capital and main seaport, Yaound\u00e9<\/a>, its political capital, and Garoua<\/a>. The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly Makossa<\/a> and Bikutsi<\/a>, and for its successful national football team.<\/a><\/p>\n Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilization<\/a> around Lake Chad<\/a> and the Baka<\/a> hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rain-forest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area Rio dos Camar\u00f5es (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa Emirate<\/a> in the north in the 19th century, and various ethnic groups of the west and northwest established powerful chiefdoms and fondoms. Cameroon became a German colony in 1884 known as Kamerun<\/a>.<\/p>\n After World War I, the territory was divided between France<\/a> and the United Kingdom<\/a> as League of Nations mandates<\/a>. The Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC)<\/a> political party advocated independence, but was outlawed by France in the 1950s, leading to the Bamileke War<\/a> fought between French and UPC militant forces until early 1971. In 1960, the French-administered part of Cameroon became independent as the Republic of Cameroun under President Ahmadou Ahidjo<\/a>. The southern part of British Cameroons federated with it in 1961 to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. The federation was abandoned in 1972. The country was renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 and the Republic of Cameroon in 1984. Large numbers of Cameroonians live as subsistence farmers. Since 1982 Paul Biya<\/a> has been President, governing with his Cameroon People’s Democratic Movement<\/a> party. The country has experienced tensions coming from the English-speaking territories. Politicians in the English-speaking regions have advocated for greater decentralization and even complete separation or independence (as in the Southern Cameroons National Council<\/a>) from Cameroon. In 2017, tensions in the English-speaking territories escalated into open warfare<\/a>.<\/p>\n The territory of present-day Cameroon was first settled during the Neolithic Era<\/a>. The longest continuous inhabitants are groups such as the Baka (Pygmies). From here, Bantu migrations<\/a> into eastern, southern, and central Africa are believed to have originated about 2,000 years ago. The Sao culture arose around Lake Chad, c. 500 AD, and gave way to the Kanem<\/a> and its successor state, the Bornu Empire. Kingdoms, fondoms<\/a>, and chiefdoms arose in the west.<\/p>\n Portuguese sailors reached the coast in 1472. They noted an abundance of the ghost shrimp Lepidophthalmus turneranus<\/em><\/a> in the Wouri River and named it Rio dos Camar\u00f5es (Shrimp River), which became Cameroon in English. Over the following few centuries, European interests regularized trade with the coastal peoples, and Christian missionaries pushed inland.<\/p>\n In the early 19th century, Modibo Adama<\/a> led Fulani soldiers on a jihad<\/a> in the north against non-Muslim and partially Muslim peoples and established the Adamawa Emirate. Settled peoples who fled the Fulani caused a major redistribution of population.<\/p>\n The Bamum tribe have a writing system, known as Bamum script<\/a> or Shu Mom. The script was given to them by Sultan Ibrahim Njoya<\/a> in 1896, and is taught in Cameroon by the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project.<\/a><\/p>\n Germany began to establish roots in Cameroon in 1868 when the Woermann Company of Hamburg built a warehouse. It was built on the estuary of the Wouri River. Later Gustav Nachtigal made a treaty with one of the local kings to annex the region for the German emperor. The German Empire<\/a> claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland. The Germans ran into resistance with the native people who did not want the Germans to establish themselves on this land. Under the influence of Germany, commercial companies were left to regulate local administrations. These concessions used forced labor of the Africans to make a profit. The labor was used on banana, rubber, palm oil, and cocoa plantations. They initiated projects to improve the colony’s infrastructure, relying on a harsh system of forced labor, which was much criticized by the other colonial powers.<\/p>\n With the defeat of Germany in World War I<\/a>, Kamerun became a League of Nations mandate territory and was split into French Cameroons and British Cameroons in 1919. France integrated the economy of Cameroon with that of France and improved the infrastructure with capital investments and skilled workers, modifying the colonial system of forced labor.<\/p>\n The British administered their territory from neighboring Nigeria. Natives complained that this made them a neglected “colony of a colony”. Nigerian migrant workers flocked to Southern Cameroons, ending forced labor altogether but angering the local natives, who felt swamped. The League of Nations mandates were converted into United Nations Trusteeships<\/a> in 1946, and the question of independence became a pressing issue in French Cameroun.<\/p>\n France outlawed the pro-independence political party, the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), on 13 July 1955. Armed response by the colonialists prompted a long guerrilla war (known also as the Bamileke War) and the assassination of several of the party’s leaders, including Ruben Um Nyob\u00e9, F\u00e9lix-Roland Moumi\u00e9<\/a> and Ernest Ouandie<\/a>. In the British Cameroons, the question was whether to reunify with French Cameroun or join Nigeria.<\/p>\n On 1 January 1960, French Cameroun gained independence from France under President Ahmadou Ahidjo. On 1 October 1961, the formerly British Southern Cameroons gained independence by vote of the UN General Assembly and joined with French Cameroun to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Ahidjo used the ongoing war with the UPC to concentrate power in the presidency, continuing with this even after the suppression of the UPC in 1971.<\/p>\n His political party, the Cameroon National Union (CNU)<\/a>, became the sole legal political party on 1 September 1966 and on 20 May 1972, a referendum was passed to abolish the federal system of government in favor of a United Republic of Cameroon, headed from Yaound\u00e9. This day is now the country’s National Day, a public holiday. Ahidjo pursued an economic policy of planned liberalism, prioritizing cash crops and petroleum development. The government used oil money to create a national cash reserve, pay farmers, and finance major development projects; however, many initiatives failed when Ahidjo appointed unqualified allies to direct them.<\/p>\n Ahidjo stepped down on 4 November 1982 and left power to his constitutional successor, Paul Biya. However, Ahidjo remained in control of the CNU and tried to run the country from behind the scenes until Biya and his allies pressured him into resigning. Biya began his administration by moving toward a more democratic government, but a failed coup d’\u00e9tat nudged him toward the leadership style of his predecessor.<\/p>\n An economic crisis<\/a> took effect in the mid-1980s to late 1990s as a result of international economic conditions, drought, falling petroleum prices, and years of corruption, mismanagement, and cronyism. Cameroon turned to foreign aid, cut government spending, and privatized industries. With the reintroduction of multi-party politics in December 1990, the former British Southern Cameroons pressure groups called for greater autonomy, and the Southern Cameroons National Council advocated complete secession as the Republic of Ambazonia<\/a>.<\/p>\n In June 2006, talks concerning a territorial dispute over the Bakassi peninsula<\/a> were resolved. The talks involved President Paul Biya of Cameroon, then President Olusegun Obasanjo<\/a> of Nigeria and then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan<\/a>, and resulted in Cameroonian control of the oil-rich peninsula. The northern portion of the territory was formally handed over to the Cameroonian government in August 2006, and the remainder of the peninsula was left to Cameroon 2 years later, in 2008. The boundary change triggered a local separatist insurgency<\/a>, as many Bakassians refused to accept Cameroonian rule. While most militants laid down their arms in November 2009, some carried on fighting for years.<\/p>\n In February 2008, Cameroon experienced its worst violence in 15 years<\/a> when a transport union strike in Douala escalated into violent protests in 31 municipal areas.<\/p>\n In May 2014, in the wake of the Chibok schoolgirl kidnapping<\/a>, presidents Paul Biya of Cameroon and Idriss D\u00e9by<\/a> of Chad announced they are waging war on Boko Haram<\/a>, and deployed troops to the Nigerian border. Boko Haram launched several attacks into Cameroon, killing 84 civilians in a December 2014 raid<\/a>, but suffering a heavy defeat in a raid in January, 2015<\/a>. Cameroon declared victory over Boko Haram on Cameroonian territory in September 2018.<\/p>\n Since November 2016, protesters from the predominantly English-speaking Northwest and Southwest regions of the country have been campaigning for continued use of the English language in schools and courts. People were killed and hundreds jailed as a result of these protests. In 2017, Biya’s government blocked the regions’ access to the Internet for three months. In September, separatists started a guerrilla war for the independence of the Anglophone region as the Federal Republic of Ambazonia. The government responded with a military offensive, and the insurgency spread across the Northwest and Southwest regions. As of 2019, fighting between separatist guerrillas and government forces continues. Since 2016, more than 450,000 people have fled their homes. The conflict indirectly led to an upsurge in Boko Haram attacks<\/a>, as the Cameroonian military largely withdrew from the north to focus on fighting the Ambazonian separatists.<\/p>\n At 183,569 square miles, Cameroon is the world’s 53rd-largest country. It is slightly larger than the nation of Sweden<\/a> and the state of California<\/a>; Cameroon is comparable in size to Papua New Guinea<\/a>. The country is located in Central<\/a> and West Africa, known as the hinge of Africa, on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n Tourist literature describes Cameroon as “Africa in miniature” because it exhibits all major climates and vegetation of the continent: coast, desert, mountains, rainforest, and savanna.<\/p>\n Cameroon is divided into five major geographic zones distinguished by dominant physical, climatic, and vegetative features. The coastal plain extends 9 to 93 miles inland from the Gulf of Guinea and has an average elevation of 295 feet. Exceedingly hot and humid with a short dry season, this belt is densely forested and includes some of the wettest places on earth, part of the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests.<\/a><\/p>\n The South Cameroon Plateau<\/a> rises from the coastal plain to an average elevation of 2,133 feet. Equatorial rain-forest dominates this region, although its alternation between wet and dry seasons makes it is less humid than the coast. This area is part of the Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests<\/a> eco-region.<\/p>\n An irregular chain of mountains, hills, and plateaus known as the Cameroon range<\/a> extends from Mount Cameroon on the coast\u2014Cameroon’s highest point at 13,435 feet almost to Lake Chad at Cameroon’s northern border. This region has a mild climate, particularly on the Western High Plateau<\/a>, although rainfall is high. Its soils are among Cameroon’s most fertile, especially around volcanic Mount Cameroon. Volcanism here has created crater lakes<\/a>. On 21 August 1986, one of these, Lake Nyos<\/a>, belched carbon dioxide and killed between 1,700 and 2,000 people. This area has been delineated by the World Wildlife Fund<\/a> as the Cameroonian Highlands forests<\/a> eco-region.<\/p>\n The southern plateau rises northward to the grassy, rugged Adamawa Plateau<\/a>. This feature stretches from the western mountain area and forms a barrier between the country’s north and south. Its average elevation is 3,609 feet with high rainfall between April and October peaking in July and August. The northern lowland region extends from the edge of the Adamawa to Lake Chad with an average elevation of 984 to 1,148 feet). Its characteristic vegetation is savanna scrub and grass. This is an arid region with sparse rainfall and high median temperatures.<\/p>\n Cameroon has four patterns of drainage. In the south, the principal rivers are the Ntem<\/a>, Nyong<\/a>, Sanaga<\/a>, and Wouri. These flow southwestward or westward directly into the Gulf of Guinea. The Dja<\/a> and Kad\u00e9\u00ef<\/a> drain southeastward into the Congo River<\/a>. In northern Cameroon, the B\u00e9nou\u00e9 River<\/a> runs north and west and empties into the Niger<\/a>. The Logone flows northward into Lake Chad, which Cameroon shares with three neighboring countries.<\/p>\n Cameroon’s per-capita GDP (Purchasing power parity<\/a>) was estimated as US$2,300 in 2008, one of the ten highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Major export markets include France, Italy<\/a>, South Korea<\/a>, Spain<\/a>, and the United Kingdom. Cameroon is aiming to become an emerging country by 2035.<\/p>\n Cameroon’s natural resources are very well suited to agriculture and arboriculture. An estimated 70% of the population farms, and agriculture comprised an estimated 19.8% of GDP in 2009. Most agriculture is done at the subsistence scale by local farmers using simple tools. They sell their surplus produce, and some maintain separate fields for commercial use. Urban centers are particularly reliant on peasant agriculture for their foodstuffs. Soils and climate on the coast encourage extensive commercial cultivation of bananas, cocoa, oil palms, rubber, and tea. Inland on the South Cameroon Plateau, cash crops include coffee, sugar, and tobacco. Coffee is a major cash crop in the western highlands, and in the north, natural conditions favor crops such as cotton, groundnuts, and rice. Reliance on agricultural exports makes Cameroon vulnerable to shifts in their prices.<\/p>\n Livestock are raised throughout the country. Fishing employs 5,000 people and provides over 100,000 tons of seafood each year. Bushmeat<\/a>, long a staple food for rural Cameroonians, is today a delicacy in the country’s urban centers. The commercial bushmeat trade has now surpassed deforestation as the main threat to wildlife in Cameroon.<\/p>\n The southern rain-forest has vast timber reserves, estimated to cover 37% of Cameroon’s total land area. However, large areas of the forest are difficult to reach. Logging, largely handled by foreign-owned firms, provides the government US$60 million a year in taxes (as of 1998), and laws mandate the safe and sustainable exploitation of timber. Nevertheless, in practice, the industry is one of the least regulated in Cameroon.<\/p>\n Factory-based industry accounted for an estimated 29.7% of GDP in 2009. More than 75% of Cameroon’s industrial strength is located in Douala and Bonab\u00e9ri<\/a>. Cameroon possesses substantial mineral resources, but these are not extensively mined. Petroleum exploitation has fallen since 1986, but this is still a substantial sector such that dips in prices have a strong effect on the economy. Rapids and waterfalls obstruct the southern rivers, but these sites offer opportunities for hydroelectric development and supply most of Cameroon’s energy. The Sanaga River powers the largest hydroelectric station, located at Ed\u00e9a. The rest of Cameroon’s energy comes from oil-powered thermal engines. Much of the country remains without reliable power supplies.<\/p>\n Transportation in Cameroon is often difficult. Except for the several relatively good toll roads which connect major cities (all of them one-lane) roads are poorly maintained and subject to inclement weather, since only 10% of the roadways are tarred. Roadblocks often serve little other purpose than to allow police and gendarmes to collect bribes from travelers. Road banditry has long hampered transport along the eastern and western borders, and since 2005, the problem has intensified in the east as the Central African Republic has further destabilized.<\/p>\n Intercity bus services run by multiple private companies connect all major cities. They are the most popular means of transportation followed by the rail service Camrail<\/a>. Rail service runs from Kumba<\/a> in the west to B\u00e9labo<\/a> in the east and north to Ngaound\u00e9r\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n The main international airport is the Douala International Airport<\/a> and a secondary international airport at Yaound\u00e9 Nsimalen International Airport<\/a>. As of May 2014 Cameroon had regular international air connections with nearly every major international airport in West and Southwest Africa as well as several connections to Europe and East Africa.<\/p>\n In 2008 there were 34 airports, only 10 of which had paved runways.<\/p>\n Douala is the country’s principal seaport. In the north, the B\u00e9nou\u00e9 River is seasonally navigable from Garoua across into Nigeria.<\/p>\n The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolor of green, red and yellow, with a five-pointed star in its center. There is a wide variation in the size of the central star, although it is always contained within the inside stripe.<\/p>\n The color scheme uses the traditional Pan-African colors<\/a> (Cameroon was the second state to adopt them). The center stripe is thought to stand for unity: red is the color of unity, and the star is referred to as “the star of unity”. The yellow stands for the sun, and also the savannas<\/a> in the northern part of the country, while the green is for the forests in the southern part of Cameroon.<\/p>\n The previous flag of Cameroon, used from 1961 to 1975, had a similar color scheme, but with two gold (darker than the third stripe by comparison) stars in the upper half of the green. It was adopted after British Southern Cameroons<\/a> joined the state of Cameroon.<\/p>\n The national flag of Cameroon was adopted in its present form on 20 May 1975 after Cameroon became a unitary state. It is a vertical tricolour of green, red and yellow, with a five-pointed star in its center. There is a wide variation in the size of the central star, although it is always contained within the inside stripe.<\/p>\n The colour scheme uses the traditional Pan-African colours (Cameroon was the second state to adopt them). The centre stripe is thought to stand for unity: red is the colour of unity, and the star is referred to as “the star of unity”. The yellow stands for the sun, and also the savannas in the northern part of the country, while the green is for the forests in the southern part of Cameroon.<\/p>\n The previous flag of Cameroon, used from 1961 to 1975, had a similar colour scheme, but with two gold (darker than the third stripe by comparison) stars in the upper half of the green. 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Pre-History:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>19th Century:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>20th Century:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Independence:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>21st Century:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Geography:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Economy:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Transportation:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Flag of Cameroon:<\/h2>\n
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