countries: Cameroon
Beginning in 1884, all of present-day Cameroon and parts of many of its neighbors became the German colony of Kamerun, with a capital first at Buea and later at Yaounde.
After the First World War, this colony was partitioned between Britain and France under June 28, 1919 League of Nations mandate. France gained the larger geographical share, transferred outlying regions to neighboring French colonies, and ruled the rest from Yaounde. Britain`s territory, a strip bordering Nigeria from the sea to Lake Chad, with an equal population was ruled from Lagos.

In 1955, the outlawed Union of Cameroonian Peoples (UPC), based largely among the Bamileke and Bassa ethnic groups, began an armed struggle for independence in French Cameroon.
This rebellion continued, with diminishing intensity, even after independence. Estimates of death from this conflict vary from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
French Cameroon achieved independence in 1960 as the Republic of Cameroon.

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