“Cameroon is whimsically named after the Rio dos Camarões, of River of Prawns, the name given to the Wouri River estuary by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century.” (“Into Africa” 202) Cameroon is a less developed country seeking to improve its situation, with the aid of western nations and by reducing poverty and unemployment rates which are extremely high. Cameroon is a former French and British colony and the country merged in 1961, to later form the present country. The country got renamed the United Republic of Cameroon in 1972 then the Republic of Cameroon in 1984. The nation has generally had stability, which permitted development of agriculture, roads, petroleum industry, and railways. There is a slow movement toward democratic reform, but political power firmly remains in the hands of an ethnic oligarchy. Power lies firmly in the hands of the president, Paul Biya, and his Cameroon People’s Democratic movement party, and the corruption is widespread. Cameroon is a small......
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