Cameroon is a country between Nigeria, Chad and the Central African Republic. The Cameroons colonial name comes from the cameros (prawns) that the 15th Century explores found in the Wouri River. South Cameroon supplied the Atlantic slave and commodity trades. North Cameroon people were Muslim and the economy of the Fulani and Hausa south of the Sahara. Between 1884 and 1916 Germany united the south and the north into a colony. The French ruled the east from the capital, Yaoundé. The British had a small area in the west and was loosely ruled from the Nigeria area, they grew tired of colonialism in 1945 and independence was achieved in French Cameroon in 1960.Cameroon has no single day of independence. By 1961 the southerners of British Cameroon
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Former French and British Cameroonians kept their education, legal, civil service, and legislative structures separate. There are 240 written languages and only 100 are able to be written. The Capital of Cameroon is still Yaoundé. Their flag was adopted on May 20th1975; the flag shows vertical bands in the pan African colors red, yellow and green with a yellow star in the middle of the red flag. The flag colors and the star all have different meaning; Red is the color of unity, the star is referred to as the star of unity yellow stands for the sun like the savannahs in the northern part of the country, green is for the forest in southern Cameroon. The Republic Government Cameroon has does not usually respect the freedom of speech, press or assembly because corruption is a problem. Their voting age is 20. Around villages they have appointed chiefs and Kings from generation to generation. Cameroonians have certain things they use their left or right hands for only. With their right hands they can only use for greetings, eating, and passing objects. If they accidentally use their left hand or out of necessity apologizes. Public displays of affection are not accepted but friends of the same gender may hold hands or arms while
Former French and British Cameroonians kept their education, legal, civil service, and legislative structures separate. There are 240 written languages and only 100 are able to be written. The Capital of Cameroon is still Yaoundé. Their flag was adopted on May 20th1975; the flag shows vertical bands in the pan African colors red, yellow and green with a yellow star in the middle of the red flag. The flag colors and the star all have different meaning; Red is the color of unity, the star is referred to as the star of unity yellow stands for the sun like the savannahs in the northern part of the country, green is for the forest in southern Cameroon. The Republic Government Cameroon has does not usually respect the freedom of speech, press or assembly because corruption is a problem. Their voting age is 20. Around villages they have appointed chiefs and Kings from generation to generation. Cameroonians have certain things they use their left or right hands for only. With their right hands they can only use for greetings, eating, and passing objects. If they accidentally use their left hand or out of necessity apologizes. Public displays of affection are not accepted but friends of the same gender may hold hands or arms while