- Buying at the coast was very expensive and for that reason, they wanted to trade directly in the interior.
- Hewett’s report on the Cameroon soil how it was suitable for coffee, cotton, tobacco and other tropical crops.
- The various British firms exerted pressure from English Baptist missionaries.
- The climate of Cameroon around the Cameroon mountain was suitable for European settlement.
- The British had the intension of creating an empire.
- Annexation of Cameroon by the British would facilitate the collection of their debt.
- The industries in Britain needed raw materials.
- Persistant pleads along the Cameroon coast.
- The French threats on the Cameroon coast. That is signing treaties with King Mokoko Manyame nickname “pass all” and open trading stations.
- From prestige and balance of power.
In 1883, Hewett returned to Douala realizing that British trade was suffering while German trade was rising. He wrote a letter favouring annexation of Cameroon.
When the news of French and German activities in Cameroon arrived in London, it was then decided in April 1884 that Hewett dispatched to the territory without further delay. He was to sign treaties that on 1884 that on 1884. Consult Hewett also dispatched Captain Brooke to Cameroon with some treaties form to negative annexation. Hewett came late on July 19th 1884 to annex Cameroon. One week after the Germano Douala treaty had been signed thus the phrase “too late Hewett” was to mock him for his late arrival.
