Cooperative development in Bamileke country – Cameroon (1930-2010)
The geographical area where the methods of the cooperative structure introduced into Bamileke country are practised, is primarily that of the Cameroon administrative division known as the “Western Province”. The transplantation of this imported cooperation model into the region means that it is now intermixed with existing solidarity networks, producing an amalgam of cooperative practices irreconcilable with traditional Cameroonian society. To continue to survive, this new mix of practices and values will have to achieve a dual transformation: on the one hand, a transition from solidarity to profitability and, on the other hand, a transmutation from the concept of community to the concept of organization.