“The significance of this book cannot be overestimated . . . For those who honestly seek to understand this great tragedy that has so devastated the Church, this book will be a light in the darkness of a shameful period in Church history.”
“Following the defeat of the German in Kamerun… a unique refugee situation occurred. German troops sought refuge in Rio Muni and Fernando Po. Probably the only large group of Europeans to ever become refugees on the African continent, the Germans were followed by their planters and businessmen and by some 60,000 African soldier and villagers. “
“I wish to commend Rev. Fr. Robert O’Neil for his very successful production of Born Under the Gun. It is a succinct but very illumnating analysis of Cameroon history during World War I. But first he provides a welcome background to the war by his story of the Imperial German Colony og the Kamerun since 1884. He then proceeds with his main themes : missionary activity and World War I in the Cameroons; the internment as refugees of German soldiers and their Cameroon cohorts on the off-shore island of Fernando Po, and the return of AFricans to the mainland in 1919 and 1920. The two appendices based on Fr. O’neil’s interviews with Cameroonians have aslo enhanced the value of the book. Readers of Born Under the Gun will be well rewarded. “
“… a well-researched, well written and much awaited valuable contribution to the historiography of Cameroon.”