The persistence of spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé
(2012)
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- Singleton, Michael
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- (en) Many urban policies have failed to eradicate slums or spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé/Cameroon. These settlements persist despite the coming into being of the ‘state’ and its land norms and values through colonisation. Why this persistence? This thesis attempts to explain the persistence of spontaneous settlements through the disjunction between the Cameroon State’s and grassroots’ norms and values. This thesis is an epistemological evaluation of state’ and its intrinsically related norms such as 1896 German Crown Land Act and post-colonial land enactments such as Land certificate (enshrine in the land legislation of 1976). That is to say, the grassroots (chiefs, autochthons, and urban strangers) barely heed State’s town planning norms and values or the grassroots carry out their spontaneous or slum-defining activities because the Cameroon state’s and grassroots’ norms and values are in disarray.
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Aku, M. A. (2012). The persistence of spontaneous settlements in Yaoundé. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/80286