{"product_id":"ceded-at-dawn-augustine-ndangam-9781942876526","title":"Ceded at Dawn: The Aborted Decolonization of the UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeded at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e identifies and examines decolonization as the principal source of the smoldering tension that persisted between the two former United Nations Trust Territories in Cameroon which finally exploded into an armed conflict in 2017. French Cameroon (now the Republic of Cameroon) was decolonized while the decolonization of British Cameroons was abandoned unfinished. The international experiment on \u003cem\u003eindependence by joining\u003c\/em\u003e was an exceptional route selected for the decolonization of British Southern Cameroons and was defended with the untenable arguments that British Southern Cameroons was too small and too poor to be granted sovereign independence. Both British Southern Cameroons and French Cameroon rejected \u003cem\u003eindependence by joining\u003c\/em\u003e - the latter registering her objection in a \"No\" vote at the General Assembly meeting in April 1961. In British Southern Cameroons on the other hand, the suppression of bilateral agreement on confederation of states of equal status, the nullification of their self-governing status and worst of all the wrongful transfer of that self-governing state to the Republic of Cameroon on no known terms became a complete recipe for a disaster awaiting outburst and eruption. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCeded at Dawn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e documents and methodically analyzes these developments using archival and recently declassified British colonial sources. Historians, diplomats, political scientists, scholars of the UN system and international law as well experts on decolonization will find this volume it very illuminating.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Augustine Ndangam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1942876521\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781942876526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spears Media Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d","brand":"Augustine Ndangam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47036532687103,"sku":"9781942876526","price":28.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_615edbbc-fe77-4365-acb5-9451fb1d293c.jpg?v=1752637852","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ceded-at-dawn-augustine-ndangam-9781942876526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}