Cameroon

cameroon----the name is originated from 'giant shrimp' in Portuguese.as u can imagine,little known to us before the world's first international commercers came.for the next 4 centuries since 15th century,like most of the west Africa Altantic seaboard,the southern part revolved around the slave trade.the British came,but finally defeated by Germans. Germans were active coloniers,they built universities,railways and plantations.they are pretty harsh too.one fifth of the labourers died from overwork within 1 year.
after the WW1,it was divided into 3 parts by 2 coloniers:British and French. British didn't pay much attention on them,instead,they lavished attention on their administrated capital in Nigiria.so after WW2,the new political parties formed by French Cameroon striked for independence.but there is another party in the north.so after 1960,the rebellion was developed into full-scale.the french troops steped in and thousands were ruthlessly killed and a state of emergency was declared that last 2 decades.finally,the north took over the power and a muslim became their president.
in 1961,the northern part voted as a part of Nigeria and the south decided to join the French Cameroon and bacame a single republic 11 years later.the muslim leader was re-elected as unopposed in 1975, continuing an exceedingly brutal and autocratic reign,filling jails with tens of thousands of political prisoners and censoring all the press.but he worked actively in the fields of public education,agriculture and building roads.as a result, the enrollment rate of primary schools reached 70% and farmers produced a large variety of food to make country self-efficient and benefit from the exports.
but at the height of his(president's)power and success,he quited unexpectedly.his hand-pick successor(as a southerner and christian) immediately droped a lot of former plans and transformed the society.he especailly set aside nearly all ex's 'barons'.by 1984,the barons couldn't bear it anymore and burstup a coup.it's so unexpected that hardly success.but president soon re-took the control.
cameroon hit international headlines in 1986. a toxic cloud erupted in the remote volcanic lakes in the western mountains, asphyxiating nearly 2,000 villagers in their sleep.experts said it could happen again anytime.
the successor was widely accused for his unability for handling the economy.but the government murderous attempt to wipe out all the new threat parties.but within one year,there r more than 30 parties set up and a dozen independent newspaper.finally, national-wide strikes broke out and the government faced an embarrasing standstill.the politics was in a chaos and in 2002,the long-simmering territory dispute between Nigeria came out. the oil-rich border attract both sides.and Nigeria has slowly and reluctantly begun to comply with the agreement.