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VOL. 6, ISSUE 3 (2024)
Public sanitation structures in anglophone Cameroon: A historical investigation, 1922-2022
Authors
Donald Ndiforchi Afuhnghang, René Ngek Monteh, Joseph Lon Nfi
Abstract
Issues of public sanitation have for long been an important concern
within societies the world over, and its merit is in the fact that it is
considered a preventive medicine. Sadly, and mostly in third-world countries,
public sanitation is often in a depraved state. However, for reasons of its
importance, many structures over the years within the Anglophone Cameroon
Regions have been designed to care for that purpose. Therefore, this paper
intends to make a historical investigation of the different public sanitation
structures in Anglophone Cameroon from 1922–2022, which is over a century. The
argument raised in the paper was built from both primary and secondary sources
and interpreted mostly qualitatively. The methodology is purely historical.
Following its main objective, this paper argues that the changing and sometimes
multi-structured structures were aimed primarily at improving the practice of
public sanitation. The paper reveals that for all its years, the Native
Authority (NA) structures during the British sojourn of colonialism and the
post-federal era of councils were the most devolved grassroots structures,
which ensured to an extent the promotion of public sanitation practices in the
territory. The paper further ascertains that the workings of the different
public sanitation structures were hampered in some respect by inadequacies in
human and capital resources as well as overlapping and duplicating functions
following the five inter-ministerial committees additionally charged with
public sanitation matters.
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Pages:62-68
How to cite this article:
Donald Ndiforchi Afuhnghang, René Ngek Monteh, Joseph Lon Nfi "Public sanitation structures in anglophone Cameroon: A historical investigation, 1922-2022". International Journal of Social Science and Humanities, Vol 6, Issue 3, 2024, Pages 62-68
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