Land Grabbing And Conflict In The North West Region Of Cameroon

Author : René Ngek Monteh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527556336
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Grabbing and Conflict in the North West Region of Cameroon written by René Ngek Monteh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-03 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : RENE NGEK. MONTEH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527556324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LAND GRABBING AND CONFLICT IN THE NORTH WEST REGION OF CAMEROON written by RENE NGEK. MONTEH and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Ndille
Publisher : Emergences africaines
ISBN 13 : 2140496388
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cameroon : Historical Perspectives on Borders, Conflicts, Peace and Governance written by Roland Ndille and published by Emergences africaines. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emmanuel M. Mbah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land/boundary Conflict in Africa written by Emmanuel M. Mbah and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes every aspect of the land and boundary dispute, tracing the conflict from pre-colonial times through the period ofdecolonization and beyond. The manuscript's interdisciplinary approach combines elements of political science, anthropology and economics.

Author : Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317497120
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Reforms and Natural Resource Conflicts in Africa written by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical examination of the place and role of land in Africa, the role of land in political formation and national identification, and the land as an economic resource within both national economic development and liberal globalization. Colonial and post-colonial conflicts have been rooted in four related claims: the struggle over scarce resources, especially access to land resources; abundance of natural resources mismanaged or appropriated by both the states, local power systems and multinationals; weak or absent articulated land tenure policies, leading to speculation or hybrid policy framework; and the imperatives of the global liberalization based on the free market principles to regulate the land question and mineral appropriation issue. The actualization of these combined claims have led to conflicts among ethnic groups or between them and governments. This book is not only about conflicts, but also about local policy achievements that have been produced on the land question. It provides a critical understanding of the forces and claims related to land tenure systems, as part of the state policy and its system of governance.

Author : Roland Ndille
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN 13 : 2140496396
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cameroon : Historical Perspectives on Borders, Conflicts, Peace and Governance written by Roland Ndille and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of history in Cameroon has most of the time been national and political. In our school textbooks and university courses, there is hardly an emphasis on local contents mastery. This has had implications for the articulation of grassroots research and local contents. Cameroon: Historical Perspectives on Borders, Conflicts, Peace and Governance is an authoritative volume which draws its place in Cameroons historiography from the originality of the historical evidence presented and from the subaltern perspectives adopted. The book, in the majority speaks to local history. It not only draws on local contents but captures the role of local agents and phenomena in historical causation. Topics include land and boundary/border conflicts, indigenous conflict resolution, local players in historical construction, peace building, national questions and identity issues. University lecturers, teachers, researchers and Postgraduate students would find the contents most illuminating while those preparing to undertake research would find it very inspirational.

Author : Fonjong, Lotsmart
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956551244
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Resource Endowment and the Fallacy of Development in Cameroon written by Fonjong, Lotsmart and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2019-10-05 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is rich in petroleum, minerals, tropical forests, wildlife, water systems, fertile lands, and much more. Paradoxically however, most citizens live in abject poverty and without jobs, potable water, electricity, good healthcare and roads. This book is a thoughtful interrogation of some of the structural factors driving persistent poverty in Cameroon in the midst of natural resource abundance. It engages in a multidimensional critical analysis of the impact of natural resources on basic development indicators and concludes that good resource governance and sound management are the missing link. Natural resources alone will not create socio-economic prosperity void of good management with a clear development vision and strategy in Cameroon. The book assembles a wide diversity of analysis, views, perspectives and recommendations from economists, development experts, social and political scientists, on Cameroon’s current development inertia. What emerges in the end is a coherent interdisciplinary analysis of the natural resource-development paradox as it plays out in an African setting. Theories and good practices from Africa and beyond are systematically applied to identify and critique present policy and management approaches while providing alternative options that can unlock Cameroon’s natural resource wealth for national prosperity.

Author : Tarimo, Aquiline
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956792608
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Land Rights Systems written by Tarimo, Aquiline and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, from ethical, interdisciplinary, and African perspectives, unveils the root causes of the increasing land disputes. Its significance lies upon the effort of presenting a broad overview founded upon a critical analysis of the existing land-related disputes. It is a perspective that attempts to evaluate the renewed interest in evolving theories of land rights by raising questions that can help us to understand better differences underlying land ownership systems, conflict between customary and statutory land rights systems, and the politics of land reform. Other dimensions explored in the book include the market influence on land-grabbing and challenges accompanying trends of migration, resettlement, and integration. The methodology applied in the study provides a perspective that raises questions intended to identify areas of contention, dispute, and conflict. The study, which could also be categorized as a critical assessment of the African land rights systems, is intended to be a resource for scholars, activists, and organizations working to resolve land-related disputes.

Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697416
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Land Grab Or Development Opportunity? written by Lorenzo Cotula and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Gam Nkwi
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956578924
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons and Daughters of the Soil written by Walter Gam Nkwi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a rare and original contribution on the history of little documented internal land conflicts and boundary misunderstandings in Cameroon, where attention has tended to focus too narrowly on international boundary conflicts such as that between Cameroon and Nigeria. The study is of the Bamenda Grassfields, the region most plagued by land and boundary conflicts in the country. Despite claims of common descent and cultural similarities by most communities in the region, relations have been tested and dominated by recurrent land and boundary conflicts since the middle of the 20th Century. Nkwi takes us through these contradictions, as he draws empirically and in general on his rich historical and ethnographic knowledge of the tensions and conflicts over land and boundaries in the region to situate and understand the conflicts between Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh - the epicenter of land and boundary - from c.1950s - 2009. Little if any scholarly attention has focused on this all important issue, its pernicious effects on the region notwithstanding. This book takes a bold step in the direction of the social history of land and boundary conflicts in Cameroon, and demonstrates that there is much of scholarly interest in understanding the centrality of land and boundaries in the configuration and contestation of human relations. In his innovative and stimulating blend of history and ethnography, Nkwi points to exciting new directions of paying closer attention to relationships informed by consciousness on and around land and boundaries.