Area of three borders Gabon, Equatorial Guinea Cameroon
Cross-border land mix for integrating projects
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.48346/IMIST.PRSM/ajlp-gs.v8i2.51126Keywords:
EMCCA, AfCTA, States, Cross-border state ownership, Cross-border heritage, ethnic groups, Regional development EMCCA, AfCTA, States, Cross-border state ownership, Cross-border heritage, ethnic groups, Regional development, EMCA, AfCTA, States, Cross-border state ownership, cross-border heritage, ethnic groups, Regional DevelopmentAbstract
Context and background
Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon mutually share three borders. And this geographical reality brings with it a lot of hope for the integrated development of this cross-border region. Initiatives have emerged in the various states concerned. In Cameroon, the PDIZTF Integrated Development Project for the Three Borders Zones was launched in 2013 and on February 10, 2023, the Gabonese government adopted the decree in turn creating, organizing and operating the PDIZTF.
The scientific work carried out in this area has always focused on socio-spatial dynamics, cross-border exchanges, mobility, living together between natives who have settled for centuries and migrants whose arrival dates back several decades. The continuous influx of this last category of population has created among the natives a reflex of organic solidarity since they have for the most part the same biological kinship along the three borders. Above all, there is a feeling of defense and preservation of their ancestral lands. This article therefore raises the aporia in the CEMAC zone of a common land policy specific to cross-border areas and likely to create inclusive land governance there.
Goal and Objectives:
This work aims to implement inclusive cross-border land governance by promoting both regional development initiatives and the prosperity of indigenous populations.Methodology: Situated in an anthropo-legal perspective, this article mobilizes from contractualist and primordialist approaches the notions of state ownership, cross-border patrimoniality, and ethnic content and focuses on qualitative and quantitative research with the collection of first-hand data from the towns of Ambam (Cameroon), Ebebeyin (Equatorial Guinea) and Bitam (Gabon)Results: Adopt within the Central African Monetary and Economic Community (CEMAC) a community land charter that facilitates inclusive cross-border land governance.
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Luc Mebenga Tamba
Département d'anthropologie
Université de yaoundé 1
lmtamba@yahoo.com
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