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Instructions:
Answer three Questions
Two questions must be chosen from Section A. Answer Question 1 and one other
question from section A.
Choose one from Section B
SECTION A: Cameroon since 1850
1. Study the extracts carefully and answer the questions.
EXTRACT I
“In many ways, Nachtigal was the personal envoy of the two Great German
Commercial Houses operating along the Cameroon coast, since he was instructed
to claim for Germany whatever land the agents of the two German firms had
acquired already or would acquire.
Two documents were signed at the time. The first was an expression of the wishes
of the local Chiefs. This document was important as far as later developments were
concerned. The second document was a treaty between the Germans and the Kings.
Sovereignty over the land was given to the German traders under certain
conditions.”
EXTRACT II
“When local Douala Kings agreed to hand over their sovereignty to the Germans
the Cameroon coastal strip became a German colony. The Baptists at Victoria were
replaced and the capital was [later] established at Buea. Almost immediately, the
Germans began to regret their promises to the Douala Kings. The Germans
independently began to explore the interior in order to see for themselves where
the goods were coming from and from this time on hostilities with the Chiefs
became inevitable…”
EXTRACT III
“German rule came to a swift end when the circumstances of the First World War
meant the defeat and expulsion of the Germans from Cameroon. The capitulation
of the German garrison…marked the end of the German Kamerun Protectorate.
Cameroon was provisionally divided…but boundary adjustments were later made
in an agreement signed 15 on 10 July 1919.”
Source: TABI Eyongetah and ROBERT Brain; A History of the Cameroon, Essex:
Longman, 1974, pages 63 and 65.
(a) (i) Give the name of the state official who assigned Nachtigal to carry out
the mission described in Extract 1.
(ii) Write down the names of the two commercial houses mentioned in
Extract I. (1+2 marks)
(b) (i) What code name was used to identify what has been described as the “First
Document” in Extract I, line 4?
(ii) State two conditions accepted by the Germans in the “second document” as
indicated in Extract I.
(iii) What two wishes expressed by the local chiefs in the first document were not
respected by the Germans? (1+2+2 marks)
(c) (i) In which year and by which religious organizations were the Baptists in
Victoria replaced (Extract II)?
(ii) Give the main reason why the capital was later established in Buea and the
name of the colonial governor under whom the decision was taken.
(2+2 marks)
(d) (i) Give the location of the German garrison and the name of the military
officer whose capitulation marked the end of German rule in Kamerun (Extract Ill).
(ii) In which year did the event cited in (d) (i) take place?
(iii) Which British and French officials respectively met in London in to confirm
the partition of Cameroon in 1919 (2+1+2 marks)
(e)Why did a proposed Anglo-French joint administration over Cameroon fail?
(3 marks)
1. Why did the Germans Succeed to annex Cameroon? What factors led to
native revolts against the Germans? Why was the First World War Extended
to Cameroon in 1914? (7/6/7 marks).
2. Why was the Policy of Indirect rule introduced by the British in Southern
Cameroons? What were the advantages of this policy? Why and how did
Britain neglect British Southern Cameroons? (5/5/5/5 marks)
SECTION B: AFRICA SINCE 1870 (EXCLUDING CAMEROON)
Answer one question from this section
3. What factors delayed the European scramble for Africa? Why did some
European powers rush to occupy African territories in the mid-19 th century?
Outline the imperialist methods used to acquire colonies in Africa. (6/7/7
marks)
4. What were the aims, decisions, successes and failures of the Berlin West
African Conference? (5/5/5/5 marks)
5. What were the reasons for African resistance against the Europeans? Why
did emperor Menelik II defeat Italy? Why did Samouri Toure resist the
French? (7/7/6 marks)
