The Case of the former Southern Cameroons compared to Africa's other Sovereign Regions that became parts of other African States
First Published on Monday, November 28, 2016 by the blog "New Cameroon Views" As indicated before, Cameroon's case is unique...In the case of Quebec and Eritrea, they were incorporated into British Canada and Ethiopia respectively as "trophies of war", hence they could or can politely get out (through a plebiscite or referendum)---Quebec, or fight their way out---Eritrea. Eritrea did just that with the support of the new government of Ethiopia after the overthrow of Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam. Britain simply brought South Sudan and Sudan together, two entities that had no history before as a single entity; and it had to take decades of war and millions of deaths for the international community led by the United States of America that was against the Islamist regime of Omar Bashir, to allow a referendum that allowed South Sudan to go its separate way. And of course, Zanzibar was a British protectorate (a protectorate which in modern inte...