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Dedication I have decided to dedicate this book to six men, three of them posthumously. The first is Mr. H.O. Anderson, Assistant District Officer, Kumba, who on 27th April 1933 at Lipenja awarded me a scholarship, under the then Kumba Native Administration, for five years study at Kumba Government School. Mr. Anderson is reported to have died at Enugu, as a young administrative officer in 1941. In consequence, I have been robbed, by his untimely death, of the opportunity of ever meeting and showing gratitude to a man whose singular decision set me off on the path that serves me to this day. The second is my dear father, Mbile wa Ngembeni who, despite his limited exposure to the blessings of education, invested all he could afford to send me to school. The third is Mr. Henry Anjeh Usim, from Isangele, a college chum in Calabar, Nigeria, and bosom friend who, as Forest Officer Meme/Ndian, was killed in November 1971 in the creeks off Bamusso, reportedly by Nigerians sea marauders. The fourth is Nfor Solomon Ashu Arrey of Ossing, Manyu, who from the death of my father has virtually filled his place and is today my most intimate political compatriot, father and friend. The fifth is my friend and companion, Chief Deah John Ngoh, of Malende - Kumba, with whom I have shared personal attachment for the past thirty years. The sixth and of course by no means least, is President Paul Biya who, on 6th November 1992, ended my years of virtual isolation in the political wilderness and by his leadership qualities of courage, tolerance and the acceptance of democracy with a human face, has produced a peaceful, stable Cameroon Fatherland, in which such a work as this has been possible. Since independence in 1961, Cameroon has grown to more than double its population, while others around us have been steeped in tragedy and war. Indeed, to these six men I have humbly dedicated my contribution of the Cameroon political Story. As all wade through its pages in search of authentic knowledge of our history, may they be richly rewarded with fruitful assimilation of its contents. Thus shall my humble effort be not in vain, but of eternal value to those, who, urged by the thirst to know, shall come to draw from this fountain. ...

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