ROLE OF PERSONALITIES AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE NIGERIA- CAMEROON DISPUTE
Hindatu Maigari Yerima
Volume 4 Issue 2
Abstract
The Nigeria-Cameroon conflict over the Bakassi Peninsula is territorial in nature with economic undertones. Although the border dispute has been lingering since after independence, the discovery of oil in the 1970s brought to the fore intense interests of both countries in the Peninsula. Cameroon took the case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1994 in which the ICJ ruled in its favour in 2002.This paper examines the roles of personalities of the decision makers in the mediation of the Bakassi Peninsula crisis on both sides with emphasis from 2002 to 2015. It looked into their background through the lens of family, education, idiosyncrasy and philosophical ideologies. Similarly, the paper examined the thrust of their personalities with respect to their foreign policy outlook as well as the effectiveness of their political systems. Thus the study seeks to assess personality as a factor that affected the state to state relations between Nigeria and Cameroon. This paper used the systems analysis to analyze the conflict at three levels. Qualitative research method was used by adopting interviews, primary and secondary data. Keywords: Bakassi Peninsula,, Cameroon, Nigeria, Territorial Conflict
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