Unification Day (Cameroon)

{{Short description|Public holiday in Cameroon}}

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| holiday_name = Unification Day

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| observedby = Cameroon

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| significance = Anniversary of the unification of the Southern Cameroons and French Cameroon

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| duration = 1 day

| frequency = Annual

| scheduling = same day each year

| date = 1 October

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Unification Day ({{Langx|fr|Journée de l'unification}}) is a public holiday in Cameroon. It celebrates the anniversary of a plebiscite held on 1 October 1961 in British Cameroon, in which voters in the Southern Cameroons voted to unite with French Cameroon.{{cite book|author=Diane Cook|title=Cameroon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jn7TBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT95|date=2 September 2014|publisher=Mason Crest|isbn=978-1-4222-9434-5|page=95}} British Cameroon and French Cameroon had been mandate territories created from the division of Kamerun, a German colony forfeited to the Allies after Germany's defeat in World War I.{{cite book|ref=DeLancey|author1=DeLancey, Mark W. |author2=DeLancey, Mark Dike |year=2000|title=Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon|edition=3rd |page=5|place=Lanham, Maryland|publisher= The Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0810837751}}