Augustine Ngom Jua

Augustine Ngom Jua (24 November 1924 – 30 December 1977)[1][2] was the prime minister of the state of West Cameroon (formerly British Cameroons) in the Federal Republic of Cameroon from 13 May 1965 to 11 January 1968.[3][4]

Early life, education and career

Jua was born on 24 November 1924 at Wum in Cameroon. He went to local schools and worked as a teacher in the Bamenda area. He became a member of Wum Native Authority Council under the British Trusteeship administration in 1952.[5]

Politics

When the British Southern Cameroons was separated from Eastern Nigeria in 1954, Jua was elected as a member of Southern Cameroon's House of assembly. In 1955 he helped Mr J.N Foncha found the Kamerun National Democratic Party (KNDP), a party which favors reunification with the French Cameroon. Jua was elected Vice president of KNDP in 1963 in a contest with Mr Solomon Tandeng Muna. In 1965, after a constitutional amendment, President Ahmadou Ahidjo appointed Jua as Prime Minister. He was the head of that government for less than 3 years and after the elections in December 1967, Jua was replaced as Prime Minister by Mr Solomon Tandeng Muna.[5][3]

Njua's Government of West Cameroon (1965)

Later life and death

After he was replaced as Prime Minister, Jua then retired and lived to see a unitory state created. He died on 30 December 1977, aged 53.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Profile of Augustine Ngom Jua
  2. ↑ "Republic of Ambazonia".
  3. 1 2 Song, Womai Ignatius (26 May 2017). "The Clash of the Titans: Augustine Ngom Jua, Solomon Tandeng Muna, and the Politics of Transition in Post-Colonial Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972" – via gradworks.umi.com.
  4. ↑ Anyangwe, Carlson. (2008). Imperialistic Politics in Cameroun: Resistance & the Inception of the Restoration of the Statehood of Southern Cameroons. Bamenda: Langaa. p. 52. ISBN 978-9956-558-50-6.
  5. 1 2 3 Uwechue, Raph (1991). MAKERS OF MODERN AFRICA: Profiles in History (2nd ed.). United Kingdom: Africa books Limited. pp. 309–310. ISBN 0903274183.


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