Joseph L. NFI
Abstract
This study investigates the emergence of the Southern Cameroon corps of professional teachers and the influential role the Head Teachers or Head Masters as they were called, and the teachers in general played in shaping the Southern Cameroon culture and identity. The objective is to account for the popularity of this group of colonial servants and their rise to prominence. Using archival and secondary sources, the study reveals that they were well groomed and that their Christian upbringing and attachment to motherland against Nigerian domination was responsible for their admiration, uprightness and commitment to the Southern Cameroon nation.