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Entangled histories

3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CMR LEFT · NGA RIGHT

1. c. 1000 BCE

   The Bantu expansion begins

   The Grassfields of the Cameroon-Nigeria borderlands are widely held to lie near the homeland of the Bantu languages, whose speakers spread from this region across central and southern Africa.

   Peoples & Migration · from the Cameroon chronicle · The Sao, the Bantu cradle and Cameroon's early peoples · REFS 2 — History of Cameroon, Cameroon (country overview and history)

2. 1919–1922

   Partition into French and British mandates

   The League of Nations divided the former German colony between France, which took the larger French Cameroun, and Britain, which administered the Northern and Southern Cameroons alongside Nigeria.

   Colonisation · from the Cameroon chronicle · Partition: French Cameroun and British Cameroons · REFS 3 — Cameroon (country overview and history), A Guide to the History of Recognition: Cameroon, History of Cameroon

3. 11 February 1961

   The British Cameroons plebiscite

   In a UN-supervised vote the Northern Cameroons chose to join Nigeria while the Southern Cameroons chose to reunite with the Republic of Cameroon.

   Independence · from the Cameroon chronicle · Independence, reunification and the Ahidjo years · REFS 2 — 1961 British Cameroons referendum, Cameroon (country overview and history)