Imperialism+in+Cameroon


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CAMEROON __** Cameroon was very simple when it came to the years rising up to the Age of Imperialism. It was originally inhabited by humans named the pygmy Baka people. Years later, the Bantu tribes had replaced the pygmy Baka who would then adapt to the Bantu culture. Religious points of view soon came to wash out traditional native beliefs when a strong Islamic movement arrived. With that came Christian missionaries who had also influenced the coming of Europeans. A man by the name of Fernao do Po was the very first European to set foot on the shores of present-day Cameroon. Cameroon received its name from Po. Slave traders soon followed Fernao do Po. In 1884 Germany established the Cameroons after almost a year of no imperialistic activity. Germany’s main plan was to strengthen Cameroon, even while having to subsidize the colony more year after year to balance the budget. The development in Cameroon was more focused on the growth then dominating another country. Cameroon had plenty of resources that Germany would’ve took great interest in such as a highly varied ecology and environment, petroleum, iron ore, bauxite, etc. Germany was almost the only country that showed any liking to Cameroons and also Togo which eventually claimed the title of becoming Germany’s earliest protectorates. Germany really had only two reasons for imperialing and they were Britain and France who had inspired the country of Germany.