Architecture et Urbanisation au Cameroun Méridional forestier du Centre et du Sud : Approche historique des constructions des édifices et de gestation des villes (1895-2015)

Abstract

Architectur and urbanisation are essential links in the assessment of economic and social well-being. This undoubtedly explains why, in the fields of research on cities, these issues are increasingly attracting the interest of historians, archaeologists, philosophers, sociologists, geographers, economists, lawyers and many other researchers in the social and legal sciences. In Cameroon, the consideration of themes relating to architectur and urbanisation in terms of impact and particularism in particular, in development projects, remains very vague. Our subject proposes to explore this issue. The desired effect is to put into perspective historical facts relating to architectur and urbanisation that caracterise a specific geographical environment. It is undoubtedly a question of combining, from the constructivist current, a set of theorems that catalogue two concepts to the point of making them a hermetic field on a scientific level. Our demystification approach borrows a diachronic, didactic framework in a maieutic dialectic in order to uncover the birth, evolution and particularities of architecture and urbanisation in the geographical space that serves as our experimental zone. This work is built according to the rules of the new history, which accommodates immediacy. A deductive, analytical and diachronic analysis accompanied by a collection of empirical data and a literature review was conducive to the adoption of an efficient and relevant methodology. Interdisciplinarity has favoured the development of an appropriate problematic. This thesis, which focuses on buildings and the occupation of cities, intends to put into orbit the need for historical memory in the context of research on architecture and urbanisation, in a dynamic of reflection on the cities of the past, present and future. It is therefore with good reason that we have found it appropriate to title our research topic: "Architecture and Urbanisation in Southern Cameroon: Historical approach to building construction and the gestation of cities (1895-2015)". This work intends to scrutinize current issues with a view to calling on other historians to take part in a social science debate whose can be explained by historical facts.