Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future

Contents

iii Table of Contents Acknowledgments............................................................................................ vii Foreword............................................................................................................ ..... ix Part One: General Introduction................................................................... 1 1. An Introduction by Paul Nchoji Nkwi & Francis B. Nyamnjoh..................... 3 2. The Political Economy of Regional Imbalances and National “Unintegration” in Cameroon, by Tatah Mentan......................................... 19 3. Redressing Regional Imbalance in Cameroon: The lessons from the Past by Emmanuel M Chiabi................................................................ 41 4. The Effectiveness of Legal Instruments in achieving Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon by C.N Ngwasiri................59 5. La Création du Territoire National Camerounais a l’épreuve de la crise et de sa Gestion par George Courade................................................ 69 6. The Government Social Policy and National Integration by Aloysius Ajab Amin................................................................................... 91 7. Contested Meanings: Rulers, Subjects and National Integration in Post-colonial Cameroon by Nantang Jua................................................ 99 8. Anglophone Liberation Journalism and National Deconstruction in Cameroon by Francis B. Nyamnjoh................................................................ 119 9. Regionalism and National Integration in Cameroon: Psychocultural Perspective by Bame Nsamenang..................................................... 139 10. Anglophone-Francophone Divide and Political Disintegration in Cameroon: Psychohistorical Perspective by Bongfen Chem-Langhee............................................................................................... 155 11. Assessing the Impact of Tribalism and regionalism on the Development of Cameroon by Tatah H. Mbuy.............................................. 177 12. Equilibre regional, replis identitaires et fragilisation croissante de l’intérêt national: vers un effet ‘‘boomerang’’ de la politique des quotas au Cameroun par Zambo Belinga Joseph Marie................................. 195 13. Regionalisme, Integration Nationale et Education par Dorothee Kom........................................................................................ 217 14. Balanced Rural Development in Cameroon within a Democratic context by Emmanuel Yenshu....................................................................... 229 iv 15. Ethnicity and Party Politics in Cameroon: The Politics of Divide and Rule by Paul Nchoji Nkwi and Antoine Socpa....................................... 247 16. Elites et Intégration Nationale au Cameroun sous le Régime du renouveau par Kengne Fodouop............................................................... 269 Part Two : Gender And Empirical Regional Issues.................................. 281 17. Decision-making accessibility to resources and national integration of Women in Cameroon by Amin Rebecca Ntongho................... 283 18. Women between Chiefs and the Law: Competition for Power and land in North Cameroon by Adri van den Berg.................................... 297 19. Regional Balance in Northern Cameroon by Kees Schilder......................... 319 20. Marketing of Food Crops in the Central Province of Cameroon: Some preliminary results by Anke L. Bergsma........................................... 347 21. Responses to Socio-Economic and Conjunctural changes in the Central Province and the consequences for the Town-hinterland relationship by Ali de Jong and Annelet Harts Broekhuis.............................. 373 22. Land Disputes and the Impact on Disintegration in Contemporary Western Grassfields: Case Study of the Ndop Plain Chiefdoms by John A. Mope Simo...................................................... 399 23. Regional Balance and National Integration: A historical overview of Mafa Integration in National Politics: An Imbalance along religious lines by 1. C.M van Santen........................... 427 24. Ethnicite et divergences entre le pouvoir central et les forces vives locales sur la régionalisation au Cameroun: L’exemple du Nord Cameroun par Jean-Louis Dongmo...................................................... 457 25. Relations interethniques, problématique de l’intégration nationale et de la securite aux abords sud du Lac Tchad par Thierno Bah et Saibou Issa............................................................................ 467 26. Agro-industry and regionalism in the South West Province of Cameroon during the National Economic and Political Crisis by Piet Konings................................................................................................ 505 27. Le royaume Bamoum, les Chefferies Bamiléké et L’Etat au Cameroun par Ibrahim Mouiche................................................................... 518 v 28. Regionalism: A strategy for Self-help: The Case of Manyu Women in a Changing Society by Margaret Niger- Thomas.......................... 565 Appendixes Notes on the Authors....................................................................................... 583 vi ...