LA GESTION DU DOUBLE LEGS CULTUREL COLONIAL COMME CAUSE DE L'EXODE DES COMPETENCES AU CAMEROUN: LE CAS DES ANGLOPHONES DE 1990 A 2004 (original) (raw)

This article addresses the dual colonial legacy in relation with brain drain in Cameroon. Brain drain, here, has some political expressions and consequences. These political aspects of brain drain in Cameroon mostly concern its English-speaking population. As a matter of fact, a keen analysis shows that, since reunification in 1961, the rulers of Cameroon have essentially been enforcing the system of administration and the culture inherited from the French colonization to the detriment of the British colonial legacy which, apparently, has been assimilated to the first one. The British system of administration favoured dialogue and participation, contrary to the French system which was mostly repressive and gave little room to freedom. The advent of democratization in 1990 gave the opportunity to Anglophones to start a struggle for protecting the British colonial legacy of Cameroon. This struggle was repressed and constituted the main factor behind Anglophone Brain drain in Cameroon from 1990 to 2004. Key words: Cameroon; brain drain; colonial legacy, politics, Anglophones, democratization.