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Title: | The Demise of the Nomadic Contract: Arrangements and Rangelands under Pressure in the Far North of Cameroon |
Authors: | Moritz, Mark Scholte, Paul Kari, Saïdou |
Year: | 2002 |
Periodical: | Nomadic Peoples |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 124-143 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Cameroon |
Subjects: | Fulani pastoralists customary law land law nomads Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.3167/082279402782311013 |
Abstract: | Formerly, nomadic pastoralists in the Far North Province of Cameroon had long-term social relationships and arrangements with the traditional Fulbe authorities or 'laamiibe' (singular: 'laamiido'). These arrangements, the 'nomadic contract', involved a 'laamiido''s protection of access to rangelands and personal safety, in exchange for payment of tribute and taxes by nomadic pastoralists. In the last decades this nomadic contract has come under pressure. The incorporation and subordination of traditional chiefs in the colonial and postcolonial State has diminished the power of the 'laamiibe'. As a result, the 'laamiibe' can no longer uphold their part of the contract, leaving nomadic pastoralists to fend for themselves in times of increasing competition over natural resources. Changes in levels and collection of taxes and tributes also affect the demise of the nomadic contract. Based on case studies from the Fulbe emirates of Mindif and Guidiguis and the Kotoko sultanate of Logone-Birni, carried out in 1996, this paper examines these issues. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French and Spanish. [ASC Leiden abstract] |