RE: The Story of My Life so Far - Part 45: August 1973, Vacations in Cameroon

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velimir (78)in #story • 8 years ago

They use French as an official language there? Why is that? Weren't they German colony?

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vcelier (74) 8 years ago

Yes, they were a German colony a century ago. But the Germans have been replaced by The British and the French a hundred years ago.

The German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884.
With the defeat of Germany in World War I, Kamerun became a League of Nations mandate territory and was split into French Cameroons and British Cameroons in 1919. [Wikipedia]

In the 1970s, you could still find very old people that could speak German in Cameroon, because they had learn the language at the beginning of the XXth century.

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velimir (78) 8 years ago

I see. So funny that this fact slipped my mind. thank you!

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