The Uncertain Places of the
Culture in Cameroon. Between the Aporias of a Multicultural Policy and
Intercultural Perspectives Cover Image

Les lieux incertains de la culture au Cameroun. Entre apories d’une politique multiculturelle et perspectives interculturelles
The Uncertain Places of the Culture in Cameroon. Between the Aporias of a Multicultural Policy and Intercultural Perspectives

Author(s): Albert Jiatsa Jokeng, Alvine Lyris Njanjo Ngogang
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Risoprint
Keywords: culture; interculturality; multiculturality; Cameroun; locations of cultures; locations of memory;

Summary/Abstract: Each society is essentially cultural. Nowadays, inmultiethnic and/or multiracial states, culture constitutes a newepistemological field, that of interculturality. This contribution aims atanalyzing in the case of Cameroon – a cultural melting pot – thosecultural failures which are obstacles to the implementation of agenuine multicultural policy. Faced with this reality, interculturality issummoned to analyze the possible relations between cultural groupsand to propose perspectives for the institutionalization of this policy ofliving together.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 75-83
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: French
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