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Title:The Demise of the Nomadic Contract: Arrangements and Rangelands under Pressure in the Far North of Cameroon
Authors:Moritz, MarkISNI
Scholte, PaulISNI
Kari, SaïdouISNI
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]
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