Criminal Procedure in Cameroon : from dualism to a common code By EWANG SONE Andrew Senior Lecturer Faculty of Law and Political Science University of Dschang * 1.
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A brief legal history of Cameroon
The present Republic of Cameroon was part of the German protectorate1 of Kamerun proclaimed on 14 July 18842. Cameroon was therefore one country under the Germans. With the defeat of Germany in the First World War, the two Occupying Powers who had entered Cameroon (Great Britain and France), provisionally agreed to the partition of Cameroon, with France taking the lion’s share.3 1 H.N.A. Enonchong, Cameroon Constitutional Law, Centre d’Edition et de Production de Manuels, Yaounde, 1967, p. 49. Professor Carlson Anyangwe however submits that the tag ‘protectorate’ was merely a labelling swindle for the territory was to all intents and purposes a German colony : Carlson Anyangwe, The Cameroonian Judicial System, CEPER, Yaounde, 1987, p. 3. 2 Charles M. Fombad, «The Scope for Uniformised National Laws in Cameroon», Rev. Jur. Afr., No.3, 1990, p. 60. 3 P.Y. Ntamark, « The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Cameroon and the Federal Principle,» Cameroon Law Review, 2nd Series, No. 19-20, 1980, p. 5.
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