Droit et Cultures (Dec 2013)
« Le droit des minorités et des peuples autochtones au Cameroun »: une lecture actuelle et éventuelle
Abstract
17 years after its proclamation, the right of minorities and autochthonous has not watered the thirst of those who thought they would find a revenge on history. The Kirdi in the North remained under the hegemony of the Fulani, the Mbo in the Coast, no longer have a large memory of immense ancestral lands that constitute their identity. The examples are legion. They could ultimately be taken stock zero sum. Balance sheet which requires new policy briefs to suit current events on the matter. The present article proposes a conceptual upgrading that would consider the qualitative criteria of the definition of minority since the policy of regional balance, for example, came to constitute discrimination in favor of certain communities to the detriment of others. It has also been proposed that a double autochthony: the factual one and legal one; for the various land tenure policies which followed one another in Cameroon since the colonial night have imposed new reports to the earth that presaged in one or two centuries, a «subversive» sedentary lifestyle. It follows that this is the categorization of rights proclaimed that deserves a recapitalization in the light of new issues of pluralist democracy.
