This paper is a literature review of articles published in various journals and conference proceedings, dealing with the topic of the implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) within African countries. It intends to help researchers interested in the topic by showing the problems that have been addressed in the research. This work also highlights open issues that can be tackled in future research in the development of African countries driven by ERP. Conferences and journals that are interested in the implementation of ERP within African countries have been identified. The paper also discusses whether the implementation of ERP is an important topic or a market place in the African continent. Based on the salient information gathered throughout this paper review, this work draws some recommendations that will contribute to the successful implementation of ERP within African countries. These recommendations go from the awareness of existing problems and solutions, the life cycle used in the implementation of ERP, to the successful implementation of ERP by avoiding failures that are linked to the African context.

Developing countries in Africa are facing a great challenge related to the control of state employees. Their fragile economies do not always allow them to effectively meet the financial needs associated with the payment of salaries. A number of actions were taken in each of these countries to limit such expenses. These actions range from suspending recruitment into the public service, reducing the number of state employees and reducing salaries. Despite all these measures, these states are not always able to master their employees and the associated payroll. Actions relating to the computerization of human resource management systems within the public service have been undertaken in almost all these countries to overcome this difficulty. But at the end of the process, no tangible results have been achieved. Cameroon is one of those countries that is permanently making efforts to resolve this problem that is negatively impacting its development. To achieve this, the country is making a fourth attempt to tackle this issue by relying on information and communication technology. The aim of this paper is to understand why the actions undertaken so far have not provided a satisfactory solution. In this regard, an analysis is carried out in order to point out the reasons of these failures. A case study approach the methodology is used and the behavior human resources involved in these IT projects is analyzed. This analysis leads to the identification of the major causes that hinder the successful implementation of these ICT initiatives and also highlights some negative impacts in the use of ICT. Based on these limits, some recommendations are made to avoid failures in ICT initiative related to the mastering of state employees and the associated payroll.