Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon

Konings, Piet

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“…This expression over the radio was closely followed by an official reaction from the Bakweri Land Claim Committee (BLCC). BLCC denounced such assertions, made by the said Paramount Chief, stating, vehemently, “those political leaders (Musonge and Inoni), do not have the people's mandate to interfere in such [Land] matters” (Konings, 2003; The Post, 2003 ). This denotes the tussle among political elite and the implication therein.…”

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“…This was in relation of the fact that the Prime Minister and Head of Government, Mr Peter Mafany Musonge and the then Assistant Secretary General at the Presidency and later Prime Minister, Chief Ephraim Inoni, were both of the Bakweri ethnic group in the South-West Region of Cameroon. This was registered in a claim made by a certain Bakweri Paramount Chief, over the CRTV, as documented by Konings (2003) and The Post (2003). In these reports, this chief claimed, that these two personalities, by virtue of their strategic positions, in government, would defend the interest of their Bakweri "kith and kin", especially, concerning the restitution of expropriated native lands, currently being used for plantation Public policy in Cameroon agriculture by the CDC.…”

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In the name of “development”: ethnic politics and multicultural public policy in Cameroon

Ngeve

Orock

2012

Int J of Soc & Social Policy

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The paper begins from the premise that the efforts of the two regimes of Cameroon to manage ethnic diversity on the basis of a multicultural public policy, known as "balanced regional development", constitutes an acute problem, exacerbating rather than attenuating the struggles that are often associated with ethnic diversity in postcolonial states in Africa. The purpose of the paper is to examine this public policy in the broader context of the inter-linkages between ethnicity and politics in Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach -The study rests on a two-step methodology. First, the authors conducted a review of the conceptual literature around the state-ethnicity diversity conundrum in postcolonial Africa, especially in terms of struggles for access to state resources and opportunities. Second, the authors used these conceptual insights to ground the historical and critical analysis of primary (newspaper articles, computed statistics from public records, national laws, long-term unobtrusive observations of everyday inter-ethnic struggles as a result of the authors' permanent stay in Cameroon) and secondary (local and international publications on the subject) sources. Findings -While these measures of managing ethnic diversity in Cameroon's public sector-related benefits, such as employment into the country's public service may, in themselves, not be the best approaches to the problem, the main finding of this study is that the greatest obstacle to their potential to yield any serious measure of national integration lies in the tendency for their politicization and capture by those ethnic groups that are more powerful. Originality/value -The management of ethnic diversities in postcolonial states in Africa is a major development and social policy concern. While most scholars propose succinct analyses of the challenges these may pose for postcolonial nation-building and conflict-avoidance, through the notion of a constitutionally grounded "Human Resource Bank" an original policy solution is proposed in this paper that may suit the Cameroonian context and possibly beyond.

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In the name of “development”: ethnic politics and multicultural public policy in Cameroon

Ngeve

Orock

2012

Int J of Soc & Social Policy

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“…The impacts of privatisation in Cameroon remained largely unanswered and the anticipated private sector-led growth assumptions as suggested by the advocates of the bespoke policy of denationalisation have lost it overrated brilliance (Konings, 2003). The ultimate question requiring straightforward answers relate to the effectiveness of the policy instrument as the country is still under pressure to expedite the privatisation of the remaining nationalised corporations as endorsed by the IMF and the World Bank.…”

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“…Although series of expedient academic research had been devoted to privatisation notably that conducted by (Nellis, 2003;Berthé lemy et al 2004) mostly in the case of developing countries, it is worth mentioning that the context of the phenomenon has not been copiously uncovered in the case of Cameroon.Vital articles relating to the implementations of privatisation, and the performances of Cameroon public sector including those concluded by (Tchoungui et al 1995;Konings, , 2003Nzomo & Nzongang, 2007) are empirically inadequate.The proposition of indigenised ownership is long forgotten in the bigger picture of the evaluation of privatisation within the aforementioned articles with specific reference to the Cameroon economy.…”

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A Post-Mortem Analysis of Privatisation in Cameroon: Fiscal and Structural Perspective

Isoh¹,

Taylor²

2015

AEF

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Perhaps, it would sound profoundly erroneous to assumed a status quo of privatisation as a Post-mortem perspective considering that the scheme is largely incomplete. The current trends in the debate revealed no claim to reject the fact that there has been an insufficient initiative by the government of Cameroon to expedite the transfer of ownership of nationalised corporations as prescribed by the presidential ordinance of 1990 and 1994. In the midst of these diverse political and economic motivations, government resentment to privatise has been interpreted from varied standpoints. One thing is clear, privatisation in Cameroon has suffered unprecedented setbacks which perhaps has not only limited government participation in economic activities but is behind the policy objectives lines.This study is seemingly first of it kind to address the notion of ownership consciousness as a product of the dismal fiscal and structural outcomes of the privatisation process in Cameroon.With the used of multiple regression analysis, the results are statistically conclusive that changes in ownership of nationalised industries have not yet led to any significant fiscal gain both in the short-term and long-term perspective, but there is an overwhelmed influence by Private foreign investors as oppose to the much needed indigenised ownership in the appropriation of property rights in the privatised sector of Cameroon economy .

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“…In Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo, plantation economies of the European merchant capitalists coexisted with peasantries in a bimodal agrarian context. This is still true for Cameroon where such large plantations (for the export of banana, rubber and oil palm) with significant land acquisitions are today managed by state-owned corporations and private capitalists thus creating a situation in which surrounding communities are deprived of prime agricultural land (Pemunta & Fonmboh, 2010;Kofele-Kale, 2007;Konings, 2003;Konings, 1996).…”

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Institutional Requirements for Building Resilience and Sustainability in Agricultural Land Management in the Central African Sub-region

Molua¹,

Kagwanja²

2015

JMS

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Land is critical for economic and socio-cultural development, as well as the core of structural intervention to promote good governance, decentralization and sustainable development. However, Central Africa's current land policies, legislations and administration are remnants of the legacies of the colonial period, which has led to simmering tensions that constrain meaningful development. This paper reviews the centrality of land in promoting better livelihoods, and examines the institutional requirements for building resilience and sustainability in agricultural land management in the Central African sub-region. Comprehensive principles for better agricultural land management in the advent of large-scale land investments are examined. The paper asserts that promoting resilience and sustainability in land management requires that land policy development and implementation is promoted as a package of interlinked measures which includes an effective land administration. The paper concludes that for a win-win outcome, a strategic plan is required for the continued implementation of land policy in a coordinated and timely manner, and efforts made to sequence policy reforms and institutional changes so that they can be adopted and implemented within the existing historical and political context.

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Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

In the name of “development”: ethnic politics and multicultural public policy in Cameroon

In the name of “development”: ethnic politics and multicultural public policy in Cameroon

A Post-Mortem Analysis of Privatisation in Cameroon: Fiscal and Structural Perspective

Institutional Requirements for Building Resilience and Sustainability in Agricultural Land Management in the Central African Sub-region

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