IELTS Exam Fee in Cameroon
According to the test maker – British Council, the current cost to take IELTS test in Cameroon is 160000 XAF.
List of cities in Cameroon where you can take the IELTS tests
- Douala
- Yaounde
More about Cameroon
History
The extreme north of today’s Cameroon was under the influence of the empires Kanem-Bornu and Mandara as well as the Kotoko city-states between the 8th and 16th centuries. After 1806 the north came under the control of the Islamic reform state, which Osman dan Fodio established under the Hausa and Fulbe of what is now northern Nigeria; his agent Modibu Adama († 1847) who ruled this region from Yola, gave her the name Adamaua. The neighboring state of Bamum to the southwest (founded in 1394) adopted constitutional elements from the Ful region in the 19th century, but initially withdrew from Islam. From the 17th century onwards, limitedly influential chiefdoms were established in the west, of which the Bandjoun became the most important. In the forest area of South Cameroon, the catch migrations caused political upheaval in the 19th century, but the formation of larger states did not occur.
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to visit the coast in the 15th century. With the Douala, who dominated the coastal trade with the Europeans until the colonial era, Christian missionaries settled since 1845, followed by European merchants. In 1884 German companies enforced the protection of their interests by the German Reich: in 1884 G. Nachtigal closed signed a treaty with the Douala princes that made Cameroon a German protected area. Numerous campaigns were conducted to subjugate many of the colony’s peoples. In 1902-14 the Douala tried in vain to secure their residential and commercial rights with petitions to the emperor and the Reichstag as well as legal steps. Tens of thousands of local forced laborers died between 1890 and 1914 during the construction of plantations and infrastructure expansion (Yaoundé – Kribi road, Douala – Nkongsamba and Douala – Eseka railway). The missions established the basic principles of a health and school system. During the First World War, British and French colonial troops conquered Cameroon (surrender of the last German station, Mora, on February 19, 1916). On March 14, 1916, Great Britain and France signed their first partition treaty: France immediately incorporated the areas ceded to Germany in 1911 (“New Cameroon” with corridors to the Congo and Ubangi) into its colonies; the western part remained under British occupation. In 1919 Cameroon (excluding New Cameroon) fell to the League of Nations as a mandate area and in 1922 it was divided between Great Britain and France, which received the greater part. France established an administration in Eastern Cameroon that was independent of its other territories and pursued a consistent economic policy by introducing smallholder export production. Great Britain annexed West Cameroon to its colony Nigeria and renounced an economic development of its mandate area, so that in 1924 German planters bought back their plantations on the Cameroon Mountain. Both areas became United Nations Trust Territories in 1946.
In French Cameroon, the trade unionist Ruben Um Nyobé founded the communist-oriented Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) as an anti-colonial party in 1948, initially a national association of the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain(RDA). The UPC called for the reunification and immediate independence of Cameroon. From 1955 it became radicalized, was banned and organized a long-term anti-colonial guerrilla struggle under Um Nyobé, who was shot by a government patrol on September 13, 1958. After elections, from which the moderate Union Camerounaise (UC), founded by the Fulani A. Ahidjo in 1956, emerged as the strongest party, Cameroon received limited autonomy in 1957; in February 1958, Ahidjo became Head of government. When Cameroon became independent on January 1, 1960, he took over the presidency and fought successfully against the UPC guerrillas with French military aid until 1962. Ahidjo sought to incorporate the part under British trust management. In this area, which had received a certain degree of self-government within the Federation of Nigeria in 1954, a referendum took place under UN supervision in 1961: while the northern part decided to remain with Nigeria, the southern part (today’s provinces of Northwest and Southwest) voted for one Connection to Cameroon. The “Federal Republic of Cameroon” was finally formed on October 1, 1961. On May 12, 1972, the “United Republic of Cameroon” was proclaimed with a new constitution. Ahidjo changed through a ban on political parties (1964) and conformity (1966)Cameroon to a one-party state; he himself took over the leadership of the unity party Union Nationale Camerounaise (UNC). He suppressed internal political opposition, organized an efficient secret service with Israeli help and made Cameroon one of the most repressive police states in Africa. At the same time, he pursued a course based on liberal models in terms of economic policy and leaned internationally on the Western powers; the French influence remained decisive.