Cameroon African State

Cameroon African State
Official name	Cameroon African State
Common name	Cameroon
Language(s)	French, English and local languages
Capital	Douala
Ideology	Pan-Africanism
Head of state	Félix-Roland Moumié
Population	1,693,974 (de facto)
Established	Sometime in the 1940s-1950s

The Cameroon African State is an anti-colonialist and pan-African state that emerged out of the collapse of the British and French empires. Its territory spans across the south of Nigeria and the west of Cameroon. It borders the Iberian Union territories of Equatorial Africa to the south, the Kingdom of Egypt to the east, and Kanem and Aïr. To the west, it borders Free Yorubaland and Sokoto, while to the south-east, it shares a border with Reichskommissariat Zentralafrika.

History

When the French Third Republic formally declared their surrender to the Germans in 1940, chaos dominated the French colony of Cameroon. It was during this period of uncertainty that the heroic revolutionary Ruben Um Nyobé, after decades of colonial oppression by the Europeans, made his move.

After assembling his militias and receiving armaments from Germany, Nyobé was able to secure Cameroon. He gave every single one of the colonizers a simple ultimatum, cross the border into British Cameroon willingly, or be dragged across it. After Cameroon was reclaimed from the colonizers the Union of West Africa, a new state led by Nyobé, was founded.

The next significant event in Cameroon's history occurred in 1942 when, after the collapse of the British Isles, the government of British Cameroon employed brutal methods against their black workers after activist Nnamdi Azikiwe called for a general strike. Unable to bear this injustice, Nyobé ordered the armies of the Union of West Africa to surge forth into British Cameroon, quickly liberating the colony and marching what was left of the colonizers into British Ghana. This quickly brought the militias into conflict with French military units under Charles De Gaulle that had relocated there after the fall of France. Although the French sported superior equipment, the militias were better attuned to the jungle, and soon the conflict boiled down to a stalemate along the Niger River. This situation proved untenable for the French and a peace treaty was soon signed, with the French recognizing the Union in exchange for vital rubber exports.

Although Nyobé was utterly loyal to Cameroon and its people, his belief in the ineffective philosophy of communism proved to be his undoing. The government of the Union of West Africa found itself powerless against the various militia commanders who had all but declared themselves warlords, traveling the countryside pillaging whatever they saw before them.

Nyobé himself was assassinated by a traitorous warlord after refusing to allow the sale of children as slaves, and without its charismatic leader, the Union started to collapse. The state of the country was utterly ruinous and many would flee Cameroon to escape the violence, but salvation soon came from the unlikeliest of sources.

Dr. Félix-Roland Moumié decided to act after he saw the chaos and bloodshed that had consumed his homeland. He soon after joined the radical black-nationalist movement known as African National Liberation. Japanese agents eager to curb German influence in Africa soon contacted him, offering to sponsor his return to Cameroon as he would hopefully be able to develop the country into a useful buffer state against the German presence in Africa. Moumié established the African Continental Army, a paramilitary with the express purpose of liberating his homeland.

After a short training program sponsored by the Japanese, Moumié sailed to Cameroon with his army and seized power from the disorganized warlords that had occupied it. After securing control over Cameroon, the ACA soon moved against the German colonies in the area, invading the German colony of Zentralafrika.

Unfortunately, the Luftwaffe was able to strike at the ACA from the skies with impunity, even after they had routed the German garrisons in the area. Peace talks soon began with the Japanese mediating the dispute between Germany and the ACA. This resulted in the Congo Basin being given over to the Iberian Union. After the short war, the ineffectual military government of the ACA disbanded and the Cameroon African State was founded. Now, Cameroon looks outward towards Africa, eager to continue the liberation of the continent.

National spirits

Luftwaffe Terror Bombing Construction Speed: -60.00% Production Efficiency Cap: -40.00% Production Efficiency Growth: -35.00% Needed Consumer Goods: +25.00% Launched from airfields in Südwestafrika, the German Luftwaffe regularly launch missions across western Africa, indiscriminately bombing both civilian and military targets as a demented form of 'pilot training'. Only along the coast do those few scattered cities with sufficient anti-air capabilities keep the Luftwaffe at bay, with none in the region capable of beating back this enemy permanently. This leaves the Germans with near impunity to strike the towns and farmlands further inland, crippling west African growth until this nightmare can finally end.

Pan-African Vanguard Division Attack: +5.0% Reinforce Rate: +2.0% AI Modifier: Focus on Offense: +50.0% The concept of Pan-Africanism may not have originated in Cameroon, but Cameroon has adopted Pan-Africanism as its purpose. The Vanguard sees Africa for what it is: a playground for the global superpowers, a nightmare for all native Africans under an imperial boat. Cameroon promises to liberate all Africans from colonial oppression and the suffering of unnatural, inhuman democracy. The Vanguard will cloak the continent in an everlasting freedom for Africans alone, or it will die trying.

Tense Borders War Support: +10.00% Cameroon lies in a sea of anarchy and destruction. From Zentralafrika in the southeast to Yorubaland in the West, with rebellious groups thriving in between, Cameroon's borders are anything but secure. Efforts to secure the wild border are proving too big a drain on manpower and the economy, but the border must be secure for Cameroon to survive. If the situation is not handled soon, the country is sure to collapse.

Political Rivalries Recruitable Population Factor: -10% Stability: -25.00% Taxable Population: -10.00% The Parti de la Libération Africaine maintains an image of unity within Cameroon, but the organization is far from unified. Rivals of many political backgrounds vie for control of the party, including the pro-centralization faction of Félix Roland Moumié, the federalists of Ruben Um Nyobe, the militarists, and the republicans. Each faction consolidates power within the party, and with some factions forming militias, one faction must come out on top to determine Cameroon's ultimate destiny.

African Continental Army Division Attrition: -10.0% Division Recovery Rate: +15.0% Max Planning: -25.0% Land Doctrine Cost: +75.00% The ACA's shining moments were during the Zentralafrika Crisis back in the 1950s, when it proved itself a powerful fighting force. Those glory days are gone, and the army is now a heap of different militias, disorderly command, and obsolete equipment, bound together by an ineffective command structure. The army is clearly overstretched and aging rapidly, falling into irrelevance amongst the colonial forces in the region.