Bakassi Peninsula

Author : Okon Edet
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781482830972

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Bakassi Peninsula by Okon Edet Pdf

Bakassi Peninsula: The Untold Story of a People Betrayed essentially narrates the struggle of a people to retain ownership of their homeland; Bakassi Peninsula and the challenges encountered on that tortuous road, following the outbreak of hostilities between the Federation of Nigeria and the Republic of Cameroon over ownership of the Bakassi peninsula. The book provides a brief history of the Usakedet people; customary owners of the peninsula as well as presents a critical view of the administrative, legal and political measures taken by governments including Great Britain that have proved to be detrimental to the interest of customary owners of the peninsula. Bakassi Peninsula: The Untold Story of a People Betrayed equally takes a look at the ownership controversy between Cameroon and Nigeria and provides select legal opinions on the conflict before presenting the reader with un-edited extract of the judgment of the Internal Court of Justice at The Hague. The book finally presents reactions to that judgment by Cameroonians and Nigerians and concludes with a look at what the future might hold for the Bakassi Peninsula and its native population; the Usakedet people.

Author : Fongot Kini-Yen
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956790319

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Bakassi: Or the Politics of Exclusion and Occupation? by Fongot Kini-Yen Pdf

This is a complex volume that combines a good deal of survey data on Bakassi and its populations with more ethnographically based insights into the conditions of the Bakassi communities. The book is the outcome of research carried out by Fongot Kini between 2004 and 2009. The work is intended to serve as first hand exhaustive information on the live situation in the contested Bakassi Cameroon-Nigeria border region. The term Bakassi engenders multiple meanings loaded with many conflicting emotional, spiritual and material interests. Native inhabitants are systematically disinherited of their ancestral cultural heritage and socio-economic resources. They are bastardised, humiliated and scammed by unscrupulous opportunists who deliberately misidentify them with intentions of dispossessing them of their ancestral lands and natural resources. Overall the author is in sympathy with the Bakassi who he argues have been marginalised and neglected by the Cameroon state. In particular, the value of the indigenous communities in terms of local economies as well as securing this vital border area has not been recognised and various external groups have been either allowed or encouraged to settle there to both the detriment of local populations and to the security of the region.

Author : Joshua Antinyi Asemanya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : IND:30000107335477

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Nigeria-Cameroon International Boundaries and the Dispute Over Bakassi Peninsula by Joshua Antinyi Asemanya Pdf

Author : Edwin E. Egede,Mark Osa Igiehon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317040743

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The Bakassi Dispute and the International Court of Justice by Edwin E. Egede,Mark Osa Igiehon Pdf

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon. These two countries under the auspices of the United Nations established the mechanism of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission to honour and implement their obligations under the ICJ decision. Over a decade after the ICJ decision this volume brings together academics and practitioners to assess the impact of this decision and the challenges and issues that have been raised in the course of its implementation. Hailed by some as a model of preventive diplomacy and a blueprint for the future, this timely assessment illuminates the difficulties in imposing such controversial decisions and considers whether this type of Mixed Commission is an adequate mechanism for implementing them.

Author : Olukoya Ogen
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783656152132

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Ethnicity, Economy and Historical Deconstruction in the Bakassi Borderland by Olukoya Ogen Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject History - Africa, grade: none, course: African Borderland History, language: English, abstract: This study offers a compelling revision of the meagre Nigerian historiography on the Bakassi Peninsula. It argues that Nigeria's claim of ownership of the Peninsula is logically indefensible and historically unsustainable. It contends further that Efik irredentism which found its expression in Nigeria's attempt to forcefully annex the Bakassi Peninsula is based on historical claims that are in reality largely ahistorical. The study is of the opinion that Nigeria's occupation of, and attempts to exercise sovereignty over the Peninsula emanated from the predictable desire of the Nigerian ruling elite to appropriate Bakassi's abundant natural resources and the strategic advantage that the Peninsula holds for Nigeria's oil interests in the Gulf of Guinea. This study further analyses the border-cum-migration problematics that prevail in the Peninsula. It argues that patterns of migrant life rooted in historic and still functioning socio-cultural and economic networks persist in defiance equally of national and international agreements and political claims to ethnic solidarity. The study concludes that peace can only be guaranteed in the Bakassi Peninsula, and indeed in virtually all conflict prone African borderlands, if African governments respect the old 'glass houses rule' (i.e. the 1964 Cairo Declaration by the OAU) and acknowledge that colonial treaties and national borders, irrespective of their arbitrariness and artificiality, constitute the foundation of all modern African state structures.

Author : Carlson Anyangwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789956558810

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Betrayal of Too Trusting a People. The UN, the UK and the Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons by Carlson Anyangwe Pdf

There is a growing body of literature on what was originally envisioned as a free political association of the French and British Cameroons and its dramatic effects on the 'British Cameroons' community. Anyangwe's new book is an attempt to write the history of the Southern Cameroons from a legal perspective. This authoritative work describes in great detail the story of La Republique du Cameroun's alleged annexation and colonization of the Southern Cameroons following the achievement of its independence, while highlighting the seeming complicity of the United Nations and the British Trusteeship Authority. In the process, Anyangwe unravels a number of myths created by the main actors to justify this injustice and, in the end, makes useful suggestions to reverse the situation and to restore statehood to the Southern Cameroons. The book is rich in archival research and informed by a global perspective. It convincingly shows the uniqueness of the Southern Cameroons case.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070874164

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Document on the Bakassi Peninsula Border Dispute by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edwin Egede,Mark Osa Igiehon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : 1317040732

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The Bakassi Dispute and the International Court of Justice by Edwin Egede,Mark Osa Igiehon Pdf

On the 10th of October 2002 the International Court of Justice delivered the Bakassi decision, which, amongst other things, excised the resource rich land and maritime territory of Bakassi from Nigeria and transferred its legal title to Cameroon. These two countries under the auspices of the United Nations established the mechanism of the Cameroon-Nigeria Mixed Commission to honour and implement their obligations under the ICJ decision. Over a decade after the ICJ decision this volume brings together academics and practitioners to assess the impact of this decision and the challenges and issues that have been raised in the course of its implementation. Hailed by some as a model of preventive diplomacy and a blueprint for the future, this timely assessment illuminates the difficulties in imposing such controversial decisions and considers whether this type of Mixed Commission is an adequate mechanism for implementing them.

Author : Eyo Okon Akak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : UOM:39015051558123

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Who Owns Bakassi? by Eyo Okon Akak Pdf

Author : Sani Umar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : 9784844834

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Bakassi Peninsula by Sani Umar Pdf

Author : V. Lukong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956726240

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The Cameroon-Nigeria Border Dispute. Management and Resolution, 1981-2011 by V. Lukong Pdf

At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of UTI POSSEDETIS JURIS by inheriting the colonial administrative borders whose delineation in some parts was either imperfect or not demarcated or both. The two countries tried to correct these anomalies. But such efforts were later thwarted by incessant geostrategic reckoning, dilatory, and diversionary tactics in the seventies and eighties that persisted and resurfaced in the nineties with a more determined posture. On two occasions, the border conflict almost boiled over to a full-scale war. First, in May 1981 when there was the exchange of fire between Cameroonian and Nigerian coast guards and second, in February 1994 when Nigeria marched her troops into Cameroons Bakassi Peninsula. Elsewhere in Africa, border incidents like these have often degenerated into war. But Cameroon and Nigeria together with the international community managed these protracted incidents from escalating into war. This book examines the part played by the disputing parties, Cameroon and Nigeria; the mediation, conciliatory and adjudicatory role of third parties; and the regional and international organisations, in the process of the resolution of the border dispute from 1981-2011. The study situates the nature and dynamics of the dispute historically, and comprehensively explores in detail its causes, settlement and resolution.

Author : Uchechukwu Emmanuel Eke,Onyemaechi Augustine Eke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : 9780452001

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The Truth about Bakassi Peninsula & the Dynamics of Nigeria's External Relations by Uchechukwu Emmanuel Eke,Onyemaechi Augustine Eke Pdf

Author : Malgosia Fitzmaurice,M. Fitzmaurice,O. A. Elias,Olufemi Elias
Publisher : Eleven International Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789077596067

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Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties by Malgosia Fitzmaurice,M. Fitzmaurice,O. A. Elias,Olufemi Elias Pdf

This book is a collection of essays dealing with issues of contemporary significance in the law of treaties. It neither purports nor aspires to provide a general overview of all aspects of the law of treaties, and it is by no means intended to be a comprehensive textbook. The discussion of the subjects selected in this book will shed some light on a number of areas of the contemporary law of treaties, and, consequently, on some important features of the international legal system at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The relevance of the rules governing the law of treaties for other central fields of international law continue to be the subject of frequent doctrinal discussion. In addition, some rapidly developing newer areas of public international law, which are regulated for the most part by treaties, have renewed the importance of some older problems, for example, the question of conflicts between treaties regulating the same subject-matter and the matter of treaty interpretation. One other important issue is the relevance of the emergence of new actors and factors, other than states, in the international legal order in general, and in the law of treaties in particular.

Author : Adebayo Adeolu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462022663

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Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi by Adebayo Adeolu Pdf

Fraud at the Hague-Bakassi examines how the 9/11 attacks on America affected many countries around the world. The strength of the fundamentalist Islamic groups triggered the war on terror, which unnerved many countries around the globe. To counter this, President George W. Bush began the invasion of the two Arab countries Afghanistern and Iraq without approval on the latter. The invasion had an effect on international politics in the European Union because they felt threatened by the United States declaration of the war on terrorism. The United States is the only superpower that showed any interest in establishing military bases in Africa, specifically in the Bakassi region in Africa. The move was not welcome in Europe because the Bakassi was a strategic region located in Nigeria thatwas a forbidden zone for any superpower to occupy. In response to this encroachment by the United States, the World Court in the Hague, in a controversial decision, ceded the territory to Cameroonthus ending the Cameroon versus Nigeria dispute over the Bakassi peninsula region. This decision effectively and deliberately kept the United States out of the region, but it also deprived Nigeria of a region that had belonged to it for centuriesfrom before even the Europeans arrived in Africa.

Author : Mohamed A. El-Khawas,J. Ndumbe Anyu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Bakasi Peninsula (Cameroon)
ISBN : 0773426361

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Case Studies of Conflict in Africa by Mohamed A. El-Khawas,J. Ndumbe Anyu Pdf

This is the first collection of essays offering scholarly analysis on how to reduce violence in Africa by discussing ecological factors. In this book various scholars analyze violence throughout Africa by looking at the implications on global security, as well as ecological circumstances that create it. The authors meticulously research possible solutions to the conflicts in the Niger Delta, the Bakassi Peninsula, and Piracy on the Eastern part of an often ignored continent. The authors contextualize these issues within history, economics, and ecology, while also paying close attention to neighboring states as well. There is a lengthy discussion of how the discovery of oil in Nigeria permanently transformed the region.