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| Title: | The Construction of the Cameroon Political System: The Ahidjo Years, 1958-1982 |
| Author: | DeLancey, Mark W. |
| Year: | 1987 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Contemporary African Studies |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Period: | April-October |
| Pages: | 3-24 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Cameroon |
| Subjects: | institutional change politicians Politics and Government |
| About person: | Ahmadou Ahidjo (1924-1989) |
| Abstract: | From 1958 until 1982 Cameroon was ruled by essentially one man, Ahmadou Ahidjo. During this period he established a highly centralized, rather authoritarian political system in which almost all power and responsibility resided in the President. Centralization, coalition-building and repression were the major tactics utilized by Ahidjo to concentrate political and economic power in his office and/or person. It may be argued that a political process peculiar to Cameroon was established during the Ahidjo years and that this process has become institutionalized, and has been broadly accepted by many elements of the population. Notes, ref. |
