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The Case of the former Southern Cameroons compared to Africa's other Sovereign Regions that became parts of other African States

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  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 internati

Addressing the Grievances of the Anglophone Part of Cameroon and the Founding of "The New Cameroon"

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  First Published   on  Sunday, November 27, 2016   by the blog  "New Cameroon Views"   By Janvier Tchouteu The disillusionment, frustration and anger of the peoples West of the River Mungo (former British Southern Cameroonians, former West Cameroonians)---native born and or indigenous (aboriginal) over the bad treatment they have been receiving in the hands of the usurper French-imposed system (the political establishment), a system that is not a reflection of the post-independence government  their forefathers had in mind when they voted for independence  through (re)unification with the former French Cameroun( that became La Republique du Cameroun---the Republic of Cameroun on January 01, 1960) is real, should not be taken lightly  and should be addressed in a serious manner. The Biya regime, like its predecessor the Ahidjo regime, and the French-imposed system as a whole loses any sense of relevance for their gross mismanagement of the reunification and independence proje