The German Colonial Administration and the Traditional Powers Duala and Bamum. An Analysis of Cameroon's Political History (PDF)

Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2023 in the subject History - Africa, grade: Très Honorable, University of Douala (Political Science), course: Histoire des institutions et des faits sociaux du Cameroun, language: English, abstract: From 1884 to 1916, the traditional powers Duala and Bamum were subject to the influence of the German colonial administration. This was manifested in the profound restructuring of their political, economic and socio-cultural organizations. In this perspective, we went further by demonstrating that the German colonial administration has also undergone significant changes as a result of their exchanges with Sultan NJOYA and Duala chiefs. We have also being interested in this socio-political phenomenon under the theme: "The German colonial administration and the traditional powers Duala and Bamum: Analysis of Cameroon's political history".

The interest of our work demands that the degree of mutual influence between the German colonial administration and the traditional political powers Duala and Bamum be gradually shown. This work proposes to analyze the dynamics and the logics of implantation and domination that the German colonial administration had on these two traditional political entities. Moreover, this same German colonial administration had to adapt to the local realities of the traditional Duala and Bamum political powers.

It is on this basis that our work was built in two parts. The first part is entitled: "The domination of the German colonial administration over the traditional political powers of Duala and Bamum" and the second part is entitled: "The relative influence of the traditional political powers of Bamum and Duala on the German colonial administration".