Ordinary level 2025 Littoral regional mock history 2

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SECTION A

CAMEROON SINCE 1850

Question one is compulsory. Answer either IA* or 1B* and one other questions from this section  

EITHER

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A Study this extract on the annexation of Cameroon and then answer questions (a) to (d) which follow. (The maximum mark for each sub-question is indicated in brackets)  

The Cameroon Chiefs, Kings, traders and Consular representative mounted pressure on the British to annex Cameroon. The British Government at home continued to be unwilling to take the responsibility of administering the territory. It was feared that direct involvement would make heavy demands on the English tax payers and the problem of domestic slavery and of fugitive slaves would lead to war with inland tribes. In March 1882, the British Prime Minister therefore replied to the Chiefs that his government was prepared to undertake a protectorate of the time but would look into the matter further and write again. The German and the British merchants then joined the Douala in further approaches to the British government. They were all motivated by the increase activities of the French who as American Historian described were moving along the coast towards the Cameroons from the West and from the South establishing and introducing and tariffs so high and discriminatory as to result to virtual exclusion of all non-French goods…..”. “The French had opened a trading station at Malimba in the 1870s and in April 1883, Bell and Akwa wrote to tell Flewett that the French had made a treaty with the Kings”  

(a) (i) In which year was the first formal letter requesting British annexation sent? (ii) Which Douala King wrote the first letter and to whom?

(b) (i) Apart from the reasons mentioned in the extract, what other reasons influenced the British reluctance.

(1+1mks)

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(iii) Explain why the British were unable to annex Cameroon

(ii) Explain why the British changed their minds in favour of annexation in the 1880s.

(iii) Identify the British Premier mentioned in the Extruct.

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(c) (i) Name the two Cameroon Kings who signed treaties with the French

(ii) Why were the British and German traders afraid of the French actions? (2+2+1mks)  

(2+1+4mks)

(d) (i) Which treaty signified the annexation of Cameroon?

(ii) How did the British react towards the treaty identified in (d)(i) above. (iii) How did Britain and France resolve their differences over the annexation of Cameroon? (1+2+3mks)  

1B* Study this extract on the UPC and the politics of French Cameroon in the 1950s and answer question (a) to (d) which follow. (The maximum mark for each sub question is indicated in the brackets). During the elections of June 1951, Um Nyobe, U. P. C candidate for the National Assembly from the second electoral college was defeated obtaining 3,077 votes of the 16,950 cast in the circumscription. In the March 1952 elections to the ATCAM, the U. P. C entered lists of candidates in only four of the nine Regions. none of which was successful. It was in fact impossible for any U. P. C candidate to win any election during the post wat colonial period for simple reason that the French would not permit. In 1952, for example, it became obvious that Um Nyobe. a Bassa would win election to the Cameroon Assembly from his home town, where his popularity unrivalled. The colonial administration immediately put into campaign to sabotage the election through efforts of its local officials, Bassa Chief’s  

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