La Republique du Cameroun voted against the said UN resolution resolution which was passed nevertheless and, opted rather for the outright annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons. That conference never held and so no terms of the termination of the trust and independence and union were worked out. The Foumban Bazaar that took place on this date should not be conflated with the tripartite conference that the United Nations General Assembly decided should take place to work out the terms of the termination of the Trust over the Southern Cameroons on Octoand the independence and union with independent La Republique du Cameroun. One of the greatest African creative writers and progressive critical thinker of our times the late Dr Bate Besong described the purported constitutional conference that took place in Foumban on the 17 of July 1961 between the leaders and delegates of the independent La Republique du Cameroun and the leaders of the Southern Cameroons then under British administration as the “Foumban Bazaar”. THE FOUMBAN BAZAAR: MASKING THE SLAVE DEAL
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