These images portrays a  Historical Evidence of Hope and Despair in Economic Development. The buoyancy of this sector was credited to the  Southern Cameroons Production Development Board (S.C.P.D.B) which developed out of the Southern Cameroons Marketing Board that began in 1955. Defeat of the Germans and the fusion of ex-german plantations into the Government Corporation, dubbed the Cameroon Development Corporation (C.D.C) in 1946 , this and other sectors continued to lag behind. This left the inhabitants with no other option than to decry the scenario given the abundance of both human and natural resources which the territory possessed by West African standards especially when comparisons were made to territories of similar demographic characteristics like Sierra Leone and the Gambia