Intégration régionale et décentralisation entravées en Afrique centrale

Abstract

With the apparent purpose to grow in a climate of security and stability, the new Heads of States of Central Africa had indicated, in the sixties, necessary to opt for a one-party system, so much that it incorporated regional organizations in their respective geographic areas. However, at the turn of the 1990s, this approach has failed. In this context, and echoing the collapse of the Soviet union, the claims made in relation to a return to a multiparty system prevailed. But, despite this return to a multiparty system, some hegemonic aims and political behavior – inherited from the one-party system or supported by the latter – still exert influence on both the relations between central power and local powers and within regional integration. This situation undermines the foundation for development that the multiparty system and its corollaries of good governance were supposed to lay.

Keywords

• regional integration
• decentralization
• Central Africa
• single-party system
• multipartism
• post-colonial state