Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Brownlie&#39;s African Boundaries<br/>
Date: Jul 31, 2001 @ 22:31<br/>
Author: Arif Samad (Arif Samad &lt;fHoiberg@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1732161642">Harry,<br/>
      Mandates after World War I created some<br/>
interesting boundary stories and probably the most<br/>
interesting was the Cameroons.  <br/>
      After the war, Three German territories were<br/>
divided, two of them among France and Britain.  Most<br/>
of the German Kamerun became French except two<br/>
separated territories in the west that became British.<br/>
 Those two territories were called Northern British<br/>
Cameroons and Southern British Cameroons, often<br/>
shortened to Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons<br/>
respectively.  As they were mandates or trust<br/>
territories (as they were called after the second<br/>
world war), they were not incorporated in the<br/>
surrounding nations.  <br/>
      When Nigeria became independent, British<br/>
Cameroons became an autonomous part of Nigeria, but<br/>
when Cameroon became independent from France,<br/>
plebiscites made Southern British Cameroons part of<br/>
Cameroons while the Northern part joined Nigeria. <br/>
This happened on the 1st of October, 1961.  As your<br/>
topographic map is older, they show all the<br/>
territories involved.<br/>
                                    Arif<br/>
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