Indirect rule of the British Cameroons from Nigeria
The United Kingdom administered its Cameroonian mandate not as a separate territory but as an extension of its Nigerian colony, under the principle of indirect rule through traditional authorities. Northern Cameroons was attached to Nigeria's Northern Region and Southern Cameroons to its Eastern Region.
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Historical significance
According to historians of international law, this administrative attachment deprived the British Cameroons of their own institutional development and would weigh on the debate over their future in the 1950s.
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