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Africa Today - English
URL: http://iupjournals.org/africatoday/aft47-2.html

The Reunification Question in Cameroon History: Was the Bride an Enthusiastic or a Reluctant One?

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Perspectives on the State - English
URL: http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/Chilver/Paideuma/

From Political History to Ethnography in Cameroon - Contents.

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African History - Countries in Central Africa - English
URL: http://africanhistory.about.com/cs/countriescentral/

From the Tibesti mountains in the north to the great rainforest basin of the Congo (Zaire) River. This region was relatively free of European influence until the end of the 19th century when France and Belgium developed colonies.

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World History Archives: History of Cameroon - English
URL: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/35/index-b.html

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History of Cameroon - English
URL: http://www.worldrover.com/history/cameroon_history.html

During the late 1770s and early 1800s, the Fulani, a pastoral Islamic people of the western Sahel, conquered most of what is now northern Cameroon, subjugating or displacing its largely non-Muslim inhabitants. Although the Portuguese arrived on Cameroon's coast in the 1500s, malaria prevented significant European settlement and conquest of the interior until the late 1870s, when large supplies of the malaria suppressant, quinine, first became available.

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