Title: Traditional authority at the crossroads of governance in republican Cameroon

Authors: Cheka, Cosmas

Place: [Dakar]

Publisher: Council for the development of social science research in Africa (CODESRIA)

Year: 2008

Journal: Africa development

Volume: vol. 33, no. 2

PAGE: 67--89

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: local government, anthropological research, cultural and social anthropology, legal forms, legislation, decentralization in government, governance, cameroon

Abstract: This study shows that traditional authority is at the crossroads of governance in republican Cameroon. It submits that traditional authorities should be formally integrated into the republican institutional setting by constituting the first level of decentralized institutions of governance.

URL: http://ajol.info/index.php/ad/article/viewFile/57284/45668

Document type: Portal