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Land Grabbing and Conflict in the North West Region of Cameroon
In Cameroon, conflicts emerging from land ownership and boundary discrepancies have reached record heights with the North West Region serving as the theatre of land and boundary conflicts. These conflicts are not just rampant, but have taken shifting positions, making the much-cherished desire for peaceful cohabitation a far-fetched possibility. As this book shows, the ordinances of the 1970s which stopped traditional communities from making claims of ownership of land, the unwillingness of the traditional elite to understand and accept the arbitrary colonial imposed boundaries, and the dubious role played by those in authority in an attempt to solve or identify the root causes of these conflicts constituted the bed rock for the emergence of multi-dimensional problems. This book argues that conflicts in the North West Region have been promoted by the colonial factor, the authorities’ insistence on focusing on the consequences rather than on the deep causes, land laws, administrative orders and formally made arrangements. It argues very strongly that conflicts in the North West Region have become so protracted that solving them has been an uphill task.
Party Politics and the Electoral System in Cameroon: changes in continuity 1948 - 2018
Few concepts are more central to the modern state and, at the same time, more difficult to define than the concepts of political parties, democracy, and elections. Based on primary, secondary, and alternative sources, the author nonetheless try to defy the odds and explain these concepts as clearly as possible in the context of Cameroon from 1948, the year in which the first political party (UPC) was created and went operational, to 2018, the year in which the last presidential elections took place. In this book, political parties are presented as central institutions of a modern democracy at different epochs. The characteristics and functions of parties, the basic elements of their organisation, their political and social context, as well as the problems of party democracy and the specific challenges faced by parties, besides proposed solutions from within the time frame, are the main issues.
Local Governments and Rural Development
Despite the recent economic upswing in many Latin American countries, rural poverty rates in the region have actually increased during the past two decades. Experts blame excessively centralized public administrations for the lackluster performance of public policy initiatives. In response, decentralization reformshave become a common government strategy for improving public sector performance in rural areas. The effect of these reforms is a topic of considerable debate among government officials, policy scholars, and citizensÕ groups. This book offers a systematic analysis of how local governments and farmer groups in Latin America are actually faring today. Based on interviews with more t...
L'Afrique de la défense et de la sécurité
Quelles sont la réalité et la pertinence de la mise en oeuvre de la politique africaine commune de défense et de sécurité de l'Union africaine ? Est-elle toujours inspirée de la vision des pères fondateurs de l'Organisation panafricaine lors de sa création en 1963 ? Cet ouvrage re-conceptualise la politique africaine commune de défense et de sécurité, dans le sens suggéré par les premiers panafricanistes et dont les raisons de la proposition de la défense territoriale africaine semblent jusque-là vérifiées.
L'identité culturelle itón
Cet ouvrage porte sur l'identité culturelle des trois principales composantes tribales de la Lékié, ici appelées E-M-B (Etón-Manguissa Batsenga). S'appuyant sur les théories de Kant, Descartes et Sartre, il cherche à trouver dans les mythes fondateurs des tribus une interprétation rationnelle empruntant à la psychanalyse. Au travers du mythe de la Grande Traversée, on lie l'histoire d'une émigration-explosion, qui a fait naitre les cultures Etón et Manguissa sur l'autre rive de la Sanaga.
The Sokoto Caliphate
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Who Needs the Past?
This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
