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In Cameroon, Ruben Um Nyobe and the UPC under pressure (5&6)
Yaoundé, Cameroon, September 1948. © AFP
By: Alain Foka Follow
In 1954, the nationalist movement UPC, Union des populations du Cameroun, regularly saw its meetings interrupted or its rallies prohibited, its leaders arrested and their homes searched.
Persecutions that do not prevent it from now spreading throughout the territory.
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