Founding of the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC)

10 April 1948

On 10 April 1948, a group of activists meeting in a bar in Douala-Bassa founded the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC), which became the leading nationalist party of the trust territory. Under the leadership of its secretary-general Ruben Um Nyobè from November 1948, the party demanded independence, the reunification of the two Cameroons and social justice.