INTRODUCTION
The story of the Southern Cameroons is one of the most intriguing and unjust in modern history. It is the story of how "independence by joining" became "slavery by joining". It is the story of a territory that was nursed by both the League of Nations Mandate System and the United Nations (UN) Trusteeship System for independence, and which rose to a self-governing status, established solid democratic and state institutions of its own, and then at the moment of its independence, lost everything and became a colony of a totally new colonial master who treated the people of the Southern Cameroons and their property worse than any colonial master before them. This new and destructive bondage came upon the people of the Southern Cameroons through a United Kingdom (UK) initiative. The UK, instead of giving independence directly to the people of the Southern Cameroons as directed by law, arbitrarily decided to attach Southern Cameroons to a neighboring French dependency, La Republique du Cameroun (LRC)/Republic of Cameroun.
This action by the British Administering Authority eventually led to the colonization of Southern Cameroons by France through La Republique du Cameroun, a country far behind Southern Cameroons in terms of freedom, independence preparedness, and democratic culture and was at war with itself at the time the UN discussions on the future of the Southern Cameroons. If there ever was one Trust Territory that fulfilled the necessary conditions for sovereign independence by virtue of its preparedness through state institutions, democratic maturity, constitutional government and stability, it was the Southern Cameroons. In fact, the Southern Cameroons was the first African country to organize free and fair elections and peacefully transferred power to the challenger before 1960, a feat few African countries, including La Republique du Cameroun have been able to duplicate almost half a century later.
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