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Reunification discourse has generated controversy in Cameroon since the 1990s and hinges on the issue of the degree of commitment of Anglophone and Francophone Cameroonians to its realization. This essay provides a chronological, comprehensive, and critical survey of the reunification question. Often only part of the history is presented, either inadvertently or deliberately. It is argued in this essay that reunification was a minority ideology confined largely to the Cameroon people of the Southwestern quadrant. That notwithstanding, its chief proponents were Francophones who conceived it, propagated it, and sustained it until the United Nations recognized it in the 1960s.

The aim of this study is to examine the history of the Hausa and Fulani who started settling in the Bamenda Grasslands in 1903 and 1919 respectively. Chapter One is devoted to the origin and settlement of the Hausa and Fulani in the Bamenda Grasslands. It examines the native and colonial factors, among others, as determinants in the location of the settlements of the Hausa and Fulani. Chapters Two and Three deal with the Hausa and Fulani in the economy of Bamenda Grasslands. Chapter Four deals with the Hausa and Fulani in the political framework, and Chapter Five examines the struggle of the Fulani for the establishment of a muslim court. Furthermore it studies the reaction of the muslim community towards the muslim court and the relationship between the muslim, the native courts, and the colonial administration