Des régions confédérées aux cantons

genèse et évolution des cantons de Bourha sous administration française (1916-1960)

Abstract

The European occupation of the Mandara Mountains began with the conquest of northern Cameroon in 1893 by Germany. After the German defeat in the 1914-1918 war, the French and the English became masters of places they soon propose to reorganize. After the brief German living in the area, one of the missions that gives France is to brave these diversities and rivalries emerge to allow direct administrative groups foundations in more uniform cantonal organization, not without difficulties. In this work that traces the origin of the townships in the region Mandara, it will issue to grasp the circumstances of the advent of the cantonal organization, scope and implications of this institutional change.