Abstract EN:

As part of the country’s colonial legacy, Cameroonian’s university system is widely established on Western foundations. German, English and French colonialists provided the background knowledge from which everything has developed till nowadays. Faculty members were for a long time foreigners before they become Cameroonians as part of the growing autonomy of the institution. This personel basically comes from the lower classes and has benefited of scholarships to study abroad. Cameroonians scholars therefore are multipositional but do not enjoy suitable working conditions. Their intellectual freedom is sometimes jeopardized by political influences which, moreover, seek to instrumentalize them. The university system is broadly divided into seven state universities which basically expose their western affiliation. Cameroon’s state universities are considered peripheral, regarding western universities as central and paradigmatic. The system therefore does not correspond to local realities and does not meet the needs and goals of nation building. It is laid under mimicry of western curricula and fetishism of occidental knowledge.