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Title
Chieftaincy and privatisation in Anglophone Cameroon |
Full text
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/3502 |
Date
2003 |
Author(s)
Konings, P.J.J. |
Abstract
post-print version - This chapter examines the opposition of Bakweri chiefs in Anglophone Cameroon to the government announcement, on 15 July 1994, of the privatization of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC), one of the oldest and largest agroindustrial parastatals of the country. The chiefs claimed Bakweri ownership of CDC lands and felt betrayed at not having been consulted about the privatization of CDC. The chapter demonstrates that the current resistance to CDC privatization is part of the chiefs' long-standing struggle for the return of the vast Bakweri lands that were expropriated during German colonial rule and, later, leased by the British Trust Authority to the newly created CDC. In this endeavour, the chiefs have always been supported by the Bakweri 'modern' elite. This alliance of 'modern' and 'traditional' elites has forced the government to postpone the privatization of CDC and to enter into negotiations with the original landowners. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
Subject(s)
Cameroon |
Language
en |
Publisher
Lit-Verlag |
Type of publication
Book chapter |
Format
124556 bytes; application/pdf |
Identifier
In: W. van Binsbergen (ed.), The Dynamics of Power and the Rule of Law: Essays on Africa and beyond, Münster: Lit Verlag, p. 79-99, 2003 |
Repository
Leiden - African Studies Centre Leiden
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