Uncontrolled urbanization and urban sanitation in South Cameroon. The case of the Obili district in Yaoundé
by Samuel-Béni Ella Ella, Maître de Conférences, Département de Sociologie, FALSH, UY1 and Carole Alexis Ngassomo Emama, doctoral student
Article is in French. [Copy and paste into Google Translate to read one segment of this article at a time (3900 character limit per translation).]
Uncontrolled urbanization and urban cleaning up in South-Cameroon. The case study of “Obili”‘s quarter in the Yaoundé III Town”. The present interactionist research establishes a relationship between uncontrolled urbanization and urban cleaning up at the “Obili”‘s quarter of the Yaoundé III Subdivision Council. After a brief description of this popular quarter, the authors reveal the deep causes of this uncontrolled urbanization, which focus on the non-respect of urban planning and public health, the demographic growth and the deviancy of inhabitants. This uncontrolled urbanization, which is materialized through anarchical constructions without rights of ways and the general insalubrity, creates the urban disorder, the dirt illnesses, the growing insecurity and the promiscuity, which disturbs relations between neighbors.
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