The Kamerun People's Party (KPP) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular area's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology, ...

British Cameroons British Cameroons or British Cameroon was a British Empire, British League of Nations mandate, mandate territory in British West Africa, formed of the Northern Cameroons and Southern Cameroons. Today, the Northern Cameroons forms parts of the Bor ...

History

The KPP was established as a breakaway from the

Kamerun National Congress The Kamerun National Congress (KNC) was a political party in Southern Cameroons. History The KNC was established in 1952 as a merger of two pro-unification parties, the Kamerun United National Congress and the Cameroons National Federation.Mark ...

(KNC), when a faction led by Nerius Mbile, P. M. Kale, and Motomby-Woleta disagreed with KNC leader

E. M. L. Endeley Emmanuel Mbela Lifafa Endeley, Officer of the Order of the British Empire, OBE (10 April 1916 – June 1988) was a Cameroons, Cameroonian politician who led Southern Cameroonian representatives out of the Eastern Region, Nigeria, Eastern Nigerian ...

's decision to demand autonomy from the

National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons The National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC) (later changed to the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens), was a Nigerian nationalist political party from 1944 to 1966, during the period leading up to independence and immediatel ...

.Mark Dike DeLancey, Rebecca Neh Mbuh & Mark W DeLancey (2010) ''Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon'', Scarecrow Press, pp215–216 The KPP received 20% of the vote in the 1957 parliamentary elections, winning two of the 13 seats. The 1959 elections saw the KPP run in an alliance with the

(KNC). The alliance received 37% of the vote, winning 12 of the 26 seats, of which the KPP took four.Elections in Cameroon
African Elections Database However, the KNDP won the elections with 14 seats. The KPP and KNC merged in 1960 to form the Cameroon People's National Convention.

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