Paris has handed over classified files to a commission of historians from both Cameroon and France, as part of an effort to uncover the often overlooked history of colonization in Cameroon. The team of 15 historians, led by Karine Ramondy, will focus on France's involvement in the repression of independence and opposition movements in Cameroon between 1945 and 1971. Talks of reparations have been mentioned, but it is still too early to confirm. Some historians criticize the memory work as selective and argue that France's decolonization efforts in Africa were a form of recolonization.

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