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Journal articles on the topic "Cameroon in literature"
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Ndamsa D. Thomas, Mbiydzenyuy Courage Sevidzem, and Tangwa M. Wiykiynyuy. "Fiscal Decentralization and Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Literature Survey and Perspectives for Future Research in Cameroon." PanAfrican Journal of Governance and Development (PJGD) 3, no. 2 (August 30, 2022): 166–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.46404/panjogov.v3i2.3944.
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Much literature exists on fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations in sub-Saharan Africa, and some of the very salient policy actions that have impacted local government development have emerged from such literature. The developing world, including sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), has markedly promoted fiscal decentralization in the last three decades. However, many important aspects of fiscal decentralization in SSA and Cameroon, in particular, have not been addressed by existing literature. The main objective of this review paper is, therefore, to identify the literature gaps and design an agenda for future research in the areas of fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations that has the potential to impact policy and spur development in Cameroon. A qualitative research methodology (content analysis) is used to gather, group, and offer a critical look at existing literature on the benefits of fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations in sub-Saharan Africa. It uses an integrative review and a standardized approach of abstracting appropriate information from each article and performing an appropriate analysis of the literature survey of a few decentralized countries in SSA as the population focused on in the primary studies. This review paper recommends that areas for further research on FD in Cameroon should include: Types of funding autonomy desired by local government councils in Cameroon; Revenue sharing formulas that are good for Cameroon’s economic development; How central government transfers enhance local revenue mobilization in councils which share the same political affiliation as the ruling party compared to those who do not. Studies that point to new ways of generating supplementary financing at the local level in Cameroon to match the increased responsibilities due to decentralization are still rare. The percentage of shares of central government revenue transfers to local communities is necessary to reduce poverty and inequality, and what agency and criteria should be put in place to control the execution of these transfers? The above recommendations of this review paper will greatly inform theory, policy, and practice on fiscal decentralization realities in SSA as a whole and Cameroon in particular.
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Tabuwe, Manka E., Henry Z. Muluh, Enoh Tanjong, Patience Akpan-Obong, Lawrence Sikali, Augustine Ngongban, Ajibike Olubunmi Itegboje, Kibily Demba Samake, and Victor Wacham A. Mbarika. "Gendering Technologies: Women In Cameroons Pink-Collar ICT Work." International Journal of Management & Information Systems (IJMIS) 17, no. 4 (September 29, 2013): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ijmis.v17i4.8097.
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This paper examines the rise of low-skilled, low-paying, female dominated jobs in Cameroons information and communication technology (ICT) sector. It seeks to understand why and how women (mostly between the ages of 18 and 35) seem to be naturally drawn to these jobs, described in the literature as pink-collar jobs. Through interviews with ICT workers and observations at ICT training centers and call centers in Buea, a major city in the Southwest Region of Cameroon, the paper explores the factors that hinder womens entry into more technical ICT jobs in Cameroon. It concludes that some of these factors, such as the prior income level of female ICT workers and the absence of female instructors at ICT training centers, further reinforce gender-based job classifications and the rise of ghettoization in Cameroons ICT sector.
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Amin, Julius A. "Cameroon's relations toward Nigeria: a foreign policy of pragmatism." Journal of Modern African Studies 58, no. 1 (February 20, 2020): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x19000545.
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AbstractExisting literature argues that the tactics of Cameroon foreign policy have been conservative, weak and timid. This study refutes that perspective. Based on extensive and previously unused primary sources obtained from Cameroon's Ministry of External Relations and from the nation's archives in Buea and Yaoundé, this study argues that Cameroon's foreign policy was neither timid nor makeshift. Its strategy was one of pragmatism. By examining the nation's policy toward Nigeria in the reunification of Cameroon, the Nigerian civil war, the Bakassi Peninsula crisis and Boko Haram, the study maintains that, while the nation's policy was cautious, its leaders focused on the objectives and as a result scored major victories. The study concludes by suggesting that President Paul Biya invokes the same skills he used in foreign policy to address the ongoing Anglophone problem, a problem that threatens to unravel much of what the country has accomplished.
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Bang, Henry, Lee Miles, and Richard Gordon. "Evaluating local vulnerability and organisational resilience to frequent flooding in Africa: the case of Northern Cameroon." foresight 21, no. 2 (April 8, 2019): 266–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/fs-06-2018-0068.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate local vulnerability and organisational resilience including coping/adaptive capacity to climate risks, specifically frequent flooding in Northern Cameroon. Design/methodology/approach The research is exploratory/deductive and draws upon qualitative methods, secondary and empirical techniques supplemented by semi-structured qualitative interviews with senior disaster managers. Secondary information sources, which include peer review articles, government reports/plans, newspaper articles and other grey literature, enhanced the analysis. Findings The research findings have unveiled the physical and social vulnerability of Northern Cameroon to frequent flooding. Results also show that institutional performance for flood management in Cameroon is ineffective, and adaptive capacity is highly deficient. Cameroon’s legislative framework for flood management is weak, and this exacerbates the poor implementation of structural and non-structural flood management measures. Results also indicate issues with relief, evacuation and foreign assistance in flood management. Recommendations that focus on enhancing capacity of response to frequent flooding via reducing vulnerabilities, managing resilience and enhancing adaptive capacity are provided. Originality/value Using Gallopin’s (2006) model of vulnerability, this paper makes a distinct contribution by offering insights into the role of adaptive capacity in disaster management systems in developing (African) countries via an evaluation of vulnerabilities and organisational resilience to repeated flooding in Northern Cameroon.
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Ngimanang, Victalice Achamoh, and Ibrahim Ngouhouo. "Does Financial Liberalization and Investment Rate Affect Financial Development in Cameroon?" International Journal of Economics and Finance 8, no. 2 (January 24, 2016): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v8n2p136.
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This study investigates the key determining factors of financial development using Cameroons time series data from 1977 to 2010. After over-viewing the financial market and financial development in Cameroon and exploring some relevant literature, the study specifies and estimates long- and short-run functions for financial development using co-integration and error correction techniques. Financial liberalization, Gross investment rate, GDP growth rate, inflation rate and government spending appear to significantly influence the level of credit to the private sector in Cameroon. Gross investment rate significantly promotes financial development in the long- and short run whereas financial liberalization significantly contributes to private credit only in the short run. These results suggest that the efficiency of the financial sector in allocating credit to the private sector could be enhanced by encouraging gross investment in the short and long run and equally by liberalising the financial sector in the short run.
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Fry, Lincoln J. "The Search for a Culture of Bribery in Cameroon." World Journal of Social Science Research 3, no. 2 (May 6, 2016): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v3n2p185.
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<p><em>Introduction:<strong> </strong>This paper addresses systematic corruption in Cameroon. Based on the literature review and a previous study, the research question was “does a culture of bribery exist in Cameroon, and what are its predictors? Method and materials</em><em>:</em><em> Data for this study was collected by the Afrobarometer project from 1,200 Cameroonian respondents Based on self-reported data, the research attempted to determine the volume of bribes paid by respondents to receive public services. Results: Overall, the findings revealed the existence of a culture of bribery in Cameroon; forty-five percent of the respondents reported paying bribes within the last year and 30 percent reported paying two or more bribes in that same time period. Logistical regression analysis revealed that 7 variables were significant predictors of payment of bribes. Being the victim of a property crime was the strongest predictor, which, in turn, drew attention to the role of the police in Cameroon’s bribery culture.</em><em></em></p>
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Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi, and Bole Butake. "Anglophone Cameroon literature: A conversation with Bole Butake." Tydskrif vir letterkunde 53, no. 1 (April 11, 2016): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.2.
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Nfah-Abbenyi, Juliana Makuchi, and Ambroise Kom. "Francophone Cameroon literature: A conversation with Ambroise Kom." Tydskrif vir letterkunde 53, no. 1 (April 11, 2016): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.3.
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Ashuntantang, Joyce. "Anglophone Cameroon literature 1959–90: A brief overview." Tydskrif vir letterkunde 53, no. 1 (April 11, 2016): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tvl.v53i1.7.
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McDowell, Peggy. "Cameroon Art." African Arts 18, no. 3 (May 1985): 95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336366.
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Dougherty-Messi, Etienne. "Re-presenting a nation : francophone Cameroon in the novels and films of Beti, Bekolo, Beyala, Teno and Oyono." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=128223.
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In this thesis I will trace the shifting representations of post-Independence Cameroon through a detailed analysis of the literary texts of two of its most celebrated writers (Mongo Beti and Calixthe Beyala), and the cinematic production of two of its most innovative filmmakers (Jean-Marie Téno and Pierre Békolo). Theoretically, this study will be informed by both European and African post-colonial criticism, as well as other recent works of feminism, philosophy, and political theory, and will thereby critically engage with both Western and Afrocentric approaches to Sub-Saharan Africa’s literary and cinematic self-representation. The Cameroonian writers and filmmakers that will be the focus of this project provide an opportunity for a kind of critical dialogue between Western and African post-colonial interpretations of Sub-Saharan African cultural texts. Starting with the theories of Franz Fanon and Albert Memmi on de-colonisation and the preservation of an authentic African identity, I will look at the question of Cameroon’s cultural and national identity, which is often portrayed as Francophone and yet authentically African, as a useful example of the complex nature of post-colonial Sub-Saharan Africa’s self-perception. Beti’s works (1953-2000) and their representation of a ‘lost’ Cameroonian nation that must be rediscovered fully display this complexity. The novels of Calixthe Beyala stand in stark contrast to the male-centred representation of Cameroon to be found in Beti’s work. Her celebration of marginal and dispossessed figures directly addresses the marginalising and exclusionary forces at work in most literary representations of Sub-Saharan Africa. In this section I will use the key post-colonial concepts of marginality, hybridity, and positionality that have been popularised by Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Spivak to assess the extent to which women writers like Beyala have become crucially important to Sub-Saharan Africa’s self conception. Cinema has likewise become increasingly important in Cameroon as a medium of cultural self-representation. Cameroonian filmmakers have begun to exploit cinema’s power as an effective tool for mass political activism and change. This has brought about such critically acclaimed films as Téno’s Retours au pays natal (2000), and Békolo’s Le Complot d’Aristote (1996). In my thesis I will show how these filmmakers respond to the socio-political challenges of Cameroon, and thereby construct a fertile space for dialogical exchange between all producers of cultural texts. The close analysis of their films will demonstrate the ways in which cinema is inherently bound up with other critical discourses on post colonialism in Africa, and the way in which it is intimately linked to literary concerns in the current period.
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Thierry, Raphaël. "Le marché du livre africain et ses dynamiques littéraires : le cas du Cameroun." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013LORR0302/document.
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À partir des années quatre-vingt, des groupes industriels internationaux entrent dans le capital de maisons d'édition du Nord. C'est le début de ce que l'on appellera la globalisation du livre. Face à la crainte de l'uniformisation des productions éditoriales, on observe l'émergence de réflexions et de projets autour de la bibliodiversité. C'est notamment dans cette dynamique que le marché du livre africain se structure en réseaux pour favoriser la diffusion, la distribution et la coédition de ses productions. Dès la fin des années quatre-vingt-dix, la recherche universitaire s'intéresse de plus en plus à l'arrière-plan des oeuvres littéraires africaines. Derrière chaque ouvrage se situent des institutions, des économies, des stratégies d'auteurs, etc., qu'il est important de prendre en considération. Ce travail s'intéresse d'abord à la relation de la production littéraire africaine avec le marché global du livre. Dans un second-temps, notre recherche étudie le cas du marché du livre camerounais et sa cohérence en tant que système éditorial participant à l'économie littéraire nationale, sous-régionale et internationaleSince the eighties, international industrial firms enter North publishing houses' capital. This was the beginning of what is called book globalization. That process raises a standardization fear of published material; it also involves the emergence of thoughts and projects concerning bibliodiversity. In that context, African book's market has been structured in different kind of networks with the goal of sustaining its diffusion/distribution. On the end of the nineties, scholar researches increase their interest for African literature production's background. Behind each book, we find institutions, economies, authors' strategies, which are important to take in account. In this present work, we will consider the relations between African literary productions and Global book's market. Secondly, our work will focus on Cameroonian book's market as an editorial system, and will question its participation to the economy of literature at national, regional and international scales
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Ishmael, Shu Aghanifor. "Information and Communication Technology in developing economies : A literature review on the reasons for failures of ICT; The case of Cameroon." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-17218.
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Medouane, Ndafang Edith Bertine. "(Dis)continuités des identités et imaginaires en francophonie littéraire : étude comparée des nouvelles de Sévérin Cécile Abéga et de François Mauriac." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Est, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01064028.
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Produites dans une période de questionnement sur l'identité de l'homme et de l'écrivain, les nouvelles littéraires de François Mauriac et de Sévérin Cécile Abéga présentent un imaginaire tantôt symétrique, tantôt non, mais éclairant du rapport entre l'écrivain, son espace et son identité. Le sujet, "(Dis)continuités des identités et imaginaires en francophonie littéraire : étude comparée des nouvelles de Sévérin Cécile Abéga et de François Mauriac " pose le problème des modes de transfiguration des identités et de l'imaginaire dans la nouvelle littéraire francophone. L'hypothèse en est qu'en francophonie littéraire, la pluralité des lieux culturels se reflète dans la diversité d'un genre et implique une certaine cohérence. Cette étude interroge la représentation du cadre spatial et des personnages, les systèmes de valeurs de la société et du genre dans deux postures différentes. Les sujets de cette étude la destine à la critique des imaginaires, et cette approche est enrichie par d'autres lectures comparatistes. Ainsi, on constate que les périodes pendant lesquelles l'écrivain se trouve à la rencontre de tensions historiques,idéologiques et littéraires latentes sont celles où l'imagination créatrice de la nouvelle est réelle. On peut aussi établir que l'espace de la nouvelle est essentiellement celui des auteurs, mais qu'il s'agit d'un espace de désenchantement. Cet univers de déconstruction de l'être implique un univers idéal, un ailleurs qui est chez Mauriac en Dieu et chez Abéga est dans la justice sociale. Les personnages, empêtrés dans cet univers en épousent les valeurs,ce qui entraîne irrémédiablement leur chute. La seule planche de salut est l'humilité,l'ouverture vers le savoir nouveau (le modernisme par exemple) sans reniement de son ancrage identitaire. Abéga comme Mauriac sont donc pour une mixité décomplexée.
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Arrah, Moise Oneke. "A Gift of Nature and the Source of Violent Conflict: Land and Boundary Disputes in the North West Region of Cameroon The Case of BaliKumbat and Bafanji." Diss., NSUWorks, 2015. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/109.
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Balikumbat and Bafanji are the names of two villages in the Northwest Region of Cameroon that have been warring against one another over Bangang, a tract of fertile land. The conflict hinges on perceived differences about who should have access to this fertile land. Both villages claim ownership. This conflict has persisted from colonial times to the present with no tangible resolution. Understanding the place of land within the political, social, and economic fabric of the lives of both villages prior to and after the arrival of the colonial administration is the centerpiece of this research endeavor. This study sheds light on why the conflict persists. The land tenure decree of 1973, which was later promulgated into Cameroon law in 1984, is the most recent attempt at resolving disputes over land. It did not resolve this conflict. A clash of cultures between the indigenous population and the European colonizers may have triggered a legacy of land conflict between these two communities. This study unravels and seeks to explain when the Balikumbat and Bafanji villages transitioned from being two loving neighbors, capable of sharing their use of and kinship to the land, to hostile enemies ready to fight and kill one another at the earliest opportunity. In this study, interviews, observations, journal intakes, field notes, as well as document reviews, are pivotal tools used in justifying the claims highlighted in the research.
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Chabi, Angeline. "Violences historique, politique et esthétique chez Raharimanana et Patrice Nganang." Thesis, Lille 3, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LIL3H011.
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Il est des événements qui, comme des traumas, s’incrustent dans la mémoire et la prennent en otage, entremêlant les approches individuelles et collectives. L’esclavage, la colonisation, les séries de guerres et de génocides qui ont marqué le continent africain en font partie. Du tréfonds de leurs ruines respectives, l’auteur malgache Raharimanana et l’écrivain camerounais Patrice Nganang décident de réinvestir les méandres de l’Histoire. La notion de frontière disparaît, car ils se trouvent unis par le lien du sang répandu, échappant ainsi, par leurs créations, à l’enfermement spatial et temporel. S'il convient de retracer l’itinéraire d’un passé qui défie le temps, c'est pour questionner le présent et l’avenir. Comment alors dénoncer la cruauté si ce n’est par le biais d’une dynamique de la violence ? Ils optent pour une écriture de l’horreur et de l’abjection – chacun à leur manière –, dans laquelle la férocité pour l’un côtoie un humour tragi-comique pour l’autre. Une esthétique du risque et de la subversion, une « écriture-miroir » qui, en scrutant l’Homme, lui révèle son fond immonde, souvent plus animal qu’humain. Les mots expriment les maux les plus évidents, la nécrose et la névrose s’emparent des personnages et servent à témoigner des exactions et des abus de pouvoir. La folie se veut esthétique et transgressive, dans une surenchère qui provoque le ressassement, l’imbrication des récits et la vindicte. Ils proposent des œuvres renvoyant à des faits historiques, sans pour autant être des livres d’histoire, et revendiquent le droit de brouiller les pistes entre fiction et réalité ; de revenir sur les blessures antérieures pour alerter sur les hécatombes actuelles et futures. Les notions d’engagement et d’implication, même si elles se rejoignent, sont émises clairement et de façon singulière. De même que les rapports qu’ils entretiennent avec la littérature et les autres sciences humaines, suscitant de nombreuses réflexions épistémologiques, quant à la délimitation des genres littéraires, notammentThere are events, such as traumas, that become embedded in memory and take it in hostage, intertwining individual and collective approaches. Slavery, colonization, the series of wars and genocides that have marked the African continent are part of them. From the depths of their respective ruins, the Malagasy author Raharimanana and the Cameroonian writer Patrice Nganang decide to reinvest the twists and turns of History. The notion of frontier disappears, as they find themselves united by the bond of bloodshed, thus escaping, through their creations, from spatial and temporal confinement. If it is appropriate to retrace the itinerary of a past that defies time, it is to question the present and the future. How then to denounce cruelty if not through a dynamic of violence? They opt for a writing of horror and abjection - each in their own way -, in which ferocity for one stands side by side with tragic-comic humour for the other. An aesthetics of risk and subversion, a “mirror-writing” which, by scrutinizing Man, brings forth his filthy underbelly, often more beastly than human. Words express the most obvious evils; necrosis and neurosis take hold of the characters and serve to bear witness to exaction and abuse of power. Madness is aesthetic and transgressive, in an escalation that provokes endless reiteration, the interweaving of narratives and vindictiveness. They propose works that refer to historical facts, without being history books, and claim the right to confuse fiction and reality; to return to past injuries to warn of current and future hecatombs. The concepts of commitment and involvement, even if they are similar, are clearly expressed and in a singular way. As well as their relationship with literature and other human sciences, they give rise to many epistemological reflections on the delimitation of literary genres, in particular
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Ngoueko, Tiako Tchiaffi Anne Honorine. "Comprensión lectora de español como lengua extranjera (E/LE) en la enseñanza secundaria camerunesa. Un estudio sobre el currículum, los manuales y las prácticas de aulas en tercer curso de español." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/462163.
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La necessitat d'adoptar el mètode interactiu en les pràctiques lectores s'ha de considerar com una pràctica fonamental si volem millorar la competència lectora dels aprenents. La gran preocupació d'aquest estudi és la millora de les pràctiques lectores en l'Ensenyament Secundari al Camerun. Per aquest motiu, el propòsit d'aquesta investigació s'orienta a analitzar les pràctiques lectores a les aules del 3r curs d'E/LE en la secundària. Per a tal fi, hem utilitzat dos instruments: el qüestionari i l'observació amb la seva respectiva guia. Els resultats han indicat que els factors que dificulten l'aprenentatge d'aquesta habilitat tenen més pes que els que ho faciliten. Aquestes dificultats es refereixen, d'una banda, al programa oficial, als manuals escolars, i de l'altra, als docents. Davant d'aquestes limitacions, es suggereix una proposta globalitzadora en els següents àmbits: polític, familiar i àulic.La necesidad de adoptar el método interactivo en las prácticas lectoras debe considerarse como una práctica fundamental si queremos mejorar la competencia lectora de los aprendientes. La gran preocupación de este estudio es la mejora de las prácticas lectoras en la Secundaria en Camerún. De ahí que el propósito de esta investigación se oriente a analizar las prácticas lectoras en las aulas del 3er curso de E/LE. Para tal fin, los instrumentos utilizados han sido: el cuestionario y la observación. Los resultados han indicado que los factores que dificultan el aprendizaje de esta habilidad tienen más peso que los que lo facilitan. Estas dificultades se refieren, por un lado, al programa oficial, a los manuales escolares y por otro, a los docentes. Frente a estas limitaciones se sugiere una propuesta globalizadora en los siguientes ámbitos: político, familiar y áulico.
The need to adopt the interactive method in reading practices must be considered as a fundamental practice if we want to improve the reading competence of the students. This study aimed to improve the reading practices in Secondary Education in Cameroon. Hence, the purpose of this research is to analyze the reading practices in the classrooms of the 3rd year of Spanish in high school. For this purpose, we have used two instruments: the questionnaire and the observation with its respective guide. The results have indicated that the factors that hinder the learning of the reading comprehension have more weight than those that facilitate it. These difficulties refer, on the one hand, to the official program, the school textbooks and on the other, the teachers. Faced with these limitations, a globalizing proposal is recommended: in the political sphere and in the field of the classroom and the families.
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Bomba, Nkolo Odile. "Translating rhetoric into practice? : the case of French aid to Cameroon." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/102682/.
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In the late 1990s, the donor community espoused a new metanorm, poverty reduction. Against this backdrop, Lionel Jospin, elected French Prime Minister in 1997, promised a shift in French aid policy away from a paternalistic and interest-driven approach towards a more needs-focused, empowering strategy. This thesis asks, with reference to the 1997-2015 period and to the Cameroonianian case, how far, how and why France’s aid discourse on poverty reduction and empowerment has been translated into practice. Our introduction sets out this research question. Our literature review demonstrates that there have been no detailed studies of French aid to Cameroon and looks more broadly at research on French coopération, empowerment and African agency. Chapter three identifies our methodological and theoretical framework, focusing particularly on neo-classical realism and a template of hard, soft and smart power. Chapter 4 shows how French aid sructures and instruments were neo-colonial in the early post-colonial decades. It then highlights reforms under Jospin and President Jacques Chirac’s second term, paying particular attention to the aid instruments deployed in Cameroon and their ‘fitness for the purpose’. Chapter 5 sets out the aid promises of French Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande, identifying the reformist pressures they faced. Chapter 6 explains why important but ultimately limited changes took place in the French assistance programme to Cameroon. Drawing on a neoclassical realist framework, it shows how the French policy-making establishment was divided between the conservative old guard resisting and modernisers promoting aid conditionalities. Chapter 7 addresses weaknesses in the NCR framework, notably its crude definition of power and failure to include African agency. It shows how francophone Cameroonian elites facilitate or constrain the implementation of French aid. Our conclusion summarises our findings, identifies future aid trends and explores the wider significance of this research.
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Kem-Mekah, Kadzue Oscar. "Enseñanza y aprendizaje del español en Camerún: análisis de las creencias del alumnado/profesorado e implicaciones didácticas para una formación competitiva de estudiantes/docentes de ELE." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Lleida, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/399641.
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Hoy en día, la finalidad universal del aprendizaje de lenguas extranjeras es el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa en los discentes. No obstante, cabe admitir que la adquisición de esa competencia comunicativa no siempre se da al final del proceso de aprendizaje. En este sentido, sea cual sea el contexto de aprendizaje, no es sorprendente encontrar un gran número de estudiantes que, después de pasarse toda la Educación Secundaria aprendiendo una lengua extranjera, se muestre incapaz de mantener una mínima conversación en la misma al finalizar esta etapa de aprendizaje. Qué es lo que falla es una de las preguntas que forma parte del hilo conductor de nuestra investigación. Los resultados a los que llegamos, y que son explicados detalladamente en esta Tesis Doctoral, nos permiten plantear unas propuestas de intervención didácticas contundentes de cara a mejorar la calidad de la enseñanza/aprendizaje del español en la Educación Secundaria y la formación del profesorado de ELE en Camerún. La presente Tesis Doctoral se enmarca dentro del estudio de las creencias del alumnado/profesorado, una línea de investigación relativamente novedosa en el ámbito de ELE pero que tomó su impulso en el campo de la didáctica de idiomas, en concreto en la tradición investigadora y educativa anglosajona, a mediados de los años 80 con la publicación de los estudios pioneros de Horwitz (1985) y Wenden (1986). Se trata de un campo de estudio que estipula que las creencias son el soporte de gran parte de las decisiones, acciones y actuaciones conscientes o inconscientes de los discentes/docentes en el aula. De ahí su crucial importancia para ahondar y reflexionar sobre el proceso de enseñanza/aprendizaje de las lenguas.Nowadays, the universal objective of learning foreign languages is the development of the communicative competence of the learners. Nevertheless, it is important to notice that the acquisition of that competence is not always guaranteed at the end of the learning process. In this regard, whatever the learning context, it is not surprising to find students who are not able to hold even a simple conversation in a given foreign language even though they have studied that language all through their secondary education. What goes wrong is one of the main questions that will guide this research. The results we have achieved and which are presented in further details in this Doctorate Thesis permit us to make proposals for pedagogically decisive interventions which aim at ameliorating the standard and quality of Spanish teaching/learning in Secondary Education and the training of teachers in Cameroon. This work is enrolled in the study line of learners’/teachers’ beliefs. This is a relatively recent research line in the SFL domain even though it took off in the area of languages’ didactic, precisely in the Anglo-Saxon tradition of research and education in the middle of the 80 thanks to the publication of the pioneer studies of Horwitz (1985) and Wenden (1986). This domain of study stipulates that most of learners’/teachers’ conscious or unconscious decisions, actions and conducts within the classrooms are based on their beliefs. This is why it is crucial to study in depth their importance on languages teaching/learning process.
Avui dia, la finalitat universal de l'aprenentatge de llengües estrangeres és el desenvolupament de la competència comunicativa en els discents. No obstant això, cal admetre que l'adquisició d'aquesta competència comunicativa no sempre es dóna al final del procés d'aprenentatge. En aquest sentit, sigui el que sigui el context d'aprenentatge, no és sorprenent trobar un gran nombre d'estudiants que, després de passar-se tota l'Educació Secundària aprenent una llengua estrangera, es mostri incapaç de mantenir una mínima conversa en la mateixa en finalitzar aquesta etapa d'aprenentatge. Què és el que falla és una de les preguntes que forma part del fil conductor de la nostra recerca. Els resultats als quals arribem, i que són explicats detalladament en aquesta Tesi Doctoral, ens permeten plantejar unes propostes d'intervenció didàctiques contundents de cara a millorar la qualitat de l'ensenyament/aprenentatge de l'espanyol a l'Educació Secundària i la formació del professorat d'ELE a Camerun. La present Tesi Doctoral s'emmarca dins de l'estudi de les creences de l'alumnat/professorat, una línia de recerca relativament nova en l'àmbit d'ELE però que va prendre el seu impuls en el camp de la didàctica d'idiomes, en concret en la tradició investigadora i educativa anglosaxona, a mitjan anys 80 amb la publicació dels estudis pioners de Horwitz (1985) i Wenden (1986). Es tracta d'un camp d'estudi que estipula que les creences són el suport de gran part de les decisions, accions i actuacions conscients o inconscients dels discents/docents a l'aula. D'aquí la seva crucial importància per aprofundir i reflexionar sobre el procés d'ensenyament/aprenentatge de les llengües.
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Parlin, Melissa J. "“Great Resolve Comes Flashing Thro’ the Gloom”: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Writings and Photographic Legacy Illuminate a Resilient Vision of Victorian Women." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1273154377.
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Ambanasom, S. A. Perspectives on written Cameroon literature in English. Bamenda: Agwecams Printers, 2012.
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Emmanuel, Chia, Tala Kashim Ibrahim 1944-, and Tanda Vincent A, eds. Perspectives on language study and literature in Cameroon. [Limbe, Cameroon]: ANUCAM, 2006.
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Eyoh, H. Ndumbe. Critical perspectives on Cameroon writing. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research, 2013.
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Ashuntantang, Joyce. Landscaping postcoloniality: The dissemination of Cameroon anglophone literature. Mankon, Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa, 2009.
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de, La Taille Geneviève, Werner Kristine, and Tarkang Victor, eds. Balafon: An anthology of Cameroon literature in English. Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England: Longman, 1986.
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Pierre, Fandio, and Madini Mongi, eds. Figures de l'histoire et imaginaire au Cameroun =: Actors of history and artistic creativity in Cameroon. Paris: Harmattan, 2007.
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Mişcoiu, Sergiu, and Louis‑Marie Kakdeu. "Authoritarian Clientelism: The Case of the President’s ‘Creatures’ in Cameroon." In Political Parties and Electoral Clientelism, 49–67. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37295-7_4.
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AbstractWithin this article, we aim at exploring the topic of clientelism in Cameroon as a species of a wider phenomenon affecting Central and Western Francophone Africa. Our argument is that, in spite of the repeated efforts of reinforcing the local power structures, we have witnessed a process of centralisation of clientelism: the new networks are shaped around the ‘Creatures’, who are the President Paul Biya’s formal or informal appointees and play the role of nodal elements relying the rest of the chain to the central command. This happened on the expenses of the locally dispersed and more autonomous clientelistic groups that were either included in or smashed by the pyramidal Creatures’ structured. In order to test our assumption, we analysed a specific body of literature on the theorization of clientelism and on its African and Cameroonian specificity and organized four focus groups with the actual and former members of the clientelistic chains at different levels (central, regional and local). If our main presupposition proved to be generally correct, one of the sub-arguments was only partially validated through this empirical component of our research.
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Joseph, George. "Cameroon." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 151–58. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.15jos.
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Lambert, Fernando. "Cameroon." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, 557–74. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.42lam.
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Schulte Eickholt, Swen. "Sehnsucht nach der Immanenz. James Camerons Avatar – Aufbruch nach Pandora als Utopie des göttlichen Menschen." In Religion und Literatur im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert, 495–514. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.14220/9783737003759.495.
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Ashuntantang, Joyce. "Anglophone Cameroon Literature." In Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature, 62–76. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429354229-7.
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Nsah, Kenneth Toah. "Triple Marginality in Cameroon Anglophone Literature." In Re-writing Pasts, Imagining Futures, 96–110. Spears Media Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvh8r0j8.12.
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"Nationalism in Recent Cameroon Anglophone Literature." In Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Human Rights in a ‘Post’-Colonial World, 57–70. BRILL, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004488809_010.
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Bougna, Théophile, and Paul Noumba Um. "The Economics of Infrastructure in Cameroon: State, Challenges, and Policy Reforms." In The Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon, 197—C10T15. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192848529.013.26.
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Abstract In this chapter, we provide a critical assessment of infrastructure development and its role in enabling business and growth in Cameroon. We begin with a brief summary of the literature on the wider economic benefits of infrastructure investments. We also explore the current state of Cameroon infrastructure and the main challenges it faces. We then rely on a simple econometric framework to link Cameroon GDP growth with the stock of different infrastructure assets and the existing complementarities. The chapter main results are the following: First, there is an infrastructureled growth potential gap in Cameroon because its infrastructure stock is not at the level of the average African country. Second, the marginal productivity of highways infrastructure is higher compare to other transport infrastructures in Cameroon. However, there are potential efficiency gains and economic benefits of investing conjointly in different infrastructure sub-sectors, especially in highways, electricity, railways and ports. Third, there are institutional failures and deficiencies in Cameroon infrastructure which are at the heart of failure to implement satisfactorily a wide range of structural infrastructure projects. Addressing these governance gaps is a necessary condition to bring much hope for future infrastructure development and economic growth in Cameroon. Taping into the domestic and regional savings, improving the business environment, implementing effectively public-privatepartnerships, and attracting private equity investors to support infrastructure development are necessary conditions to put infrastructure at the heart of Cameroon’s economic success.
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NSAI, KIWOH TERENCE. "Mitigating Linguistic Identity Differences in Cameroon:." In Language, Literature, and the Dynamics of Conflict, 109–23. Spears Media Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.13167966.12.
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"7. Losing the Plot, Restoring the Lost Chapter: Aristotle in Cameroon." In African Film and Literature, 205–17. Columbia University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/dove14754-010.
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Genç, Murat Can, and Osman Murat Telatar. "Is the Compensation Hypothesis Valid for Turkey?" In International Conference on Eurasian Economies. Eurasian Economists Association, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.36880/c06.01380.
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Increases of trade openness in an economy raise the external risks in globalization. The societies demand on increases of the government expenditure in order to compensate for their risks. Hence the more trade openness may cause the more government size. This relation is named as compensation hypothesis in the literature has been comprehensively discussed by Rodrik (1998) but started by Cameron (1978). This paper attempts to analyze the cointegration and causality relationships between trade openness and government size in Turkey, utilizing annual data for the period 1980–2013. The existence of the long run relationship between trade openness and government size is investigated by applying Engle and Granger (1987) cointegration test. The empirical findings of cointegration test stated that the series are cointegrated. On the other hand the results of error correction model indicate that there is a unidirectional causality from trade openness to government size. The significance of this results state that the compensation hypothesis is valid for Turkey.
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Szwedowicz, J., M. Kissel, B. Ravindra, and R. Kellerer. "Estimation of Contact Stiffness and its Role in the Design of a Friction Damper." In ASME Turbo Expo 2001: Power for Land, Sea, and Air. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/2001-gt-0290.
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The use of under-platform friction dampers is a common practice for the elimination of high cycle fatigue failures of turbomachinery blading. Damper performance curves and damper optimization curves are used for the design of friction dampers. It is establishedAAfrom the previous work that apart from damper mass, the contact stiffness between damper and the blade platform is an important parameter in achieving a good damper design. Several methods for the estimation of damper stiffness have been proposed in the literature. Some of them include: 1. Curve fitting approach to a measured frequency response function, 2. Compliance measurement, 3. Measurement of hysteresis loop etc. However, it is not possible to carry out extensive sets of experiments to observe the influence of various parameters on the contact stiffness. Numerical and/or analytical models for contact stiffness evaluation are the present needs for a damper designer. This paper addresses a detailed investigation of the contact stiffness computation. Finite element modeling of the damper and the platform is carried out to study the effect of various parameters such as friction coefficient, centrifugal load, material properties etc. on the contact stiffness. The role of surface roughness and wear are neglected in the present analysis. The reliability of the applied finite element meshes is verified by simulating Hertz’s contact problems. The parametric study indicates that the contact stiffness builds up with increase in friction coefficient, centrifugal force and elastic modulus of the damper material. The results received from a pilot experiment are also presented for further evaluation of the computed results. Finally, a very good agreement between the numerical and experimental performance curves (resonance response amplitude of the blade versus excitation amplitude for the constant damper mass; Cameron et. al, 1987) of the blade with the damper is found for the tangential contact stiffness obtained from the finite element calculation. The present work extends the quest for a rational approach to damper design.
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Thurston, Alexander. In Brief: Foreword for the Lake Chad Basin Research Initiative Compendium. RESOLVE Network, January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/lcb2021.1.
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In fall 2017, the RESOLVE Network launched a major project to analyze religiosity on university campuses in the Lake Chad Basin. The project was related but not limited to the context of the Boko Haram insurgency. The project generated four major studies, including one research report based on a desk literature review and three country case studies (Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad) based on original fieldwork. The project was driven by policymakers’ and researchers’ desire to more fully understand political and religious change in this conflict-affected region. This RESOLVE research project sought not merely to investigate questions of radicalization but also to challenge stereotypes, particularly the idea that campuses are inevitably hotbeds of religious extremism. It has been credibly asserted that some of Boko Haram’s recruits, particularly in its early phases in the 2000s, were university students. Yet universities in the region have also been sites where key peacemaking initiatives are both studied and implemented.