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“This book written by one of Anglophone Cameroon’s outstanding legal specialists and long-standing champions of the Southern Cameroons cause will undoubtedly attract a wide readership. I think the arguments in the book will be hotly disputed in Cameroun and give rise to a lively debate globally on minority rights and quest for recognition.” Dr Piet Konings, co-author of Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the ‘British Cameroons’ community. Anyangwe’s new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun’s alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case. CarlsonAnyangweisanacademicofmanyyearsstanding.ProfessorofLaws,hehas taught in Cameroon, South Africa, Swaziland, and Zambia where he was one time Associate and then Acting Dean of Laws. He has over three dozen publications to his credit. He is a member of the African Commission’s Working Group of Experts on the Death Penalty in Africa. He continues to be actively involved in ongoing processes of reclamation and reassertion of the identity, territory and statehood of the former UN Trust Territory of British Southern Cameroons. He is currently Director of the School of Law and Research Champion, Walter Sisulu University, South Africa. Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group P.O. Box 902 Mankon Bamenda North West Region Cameroon ...