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Dynamique politique des Etats traditionnels sous l'Indirect Rule : du pouvoir à l'autorité : étude de cas du Lamidat de Rey-Bouba

Le ve'ritablefonctionnaire, . .., ne doitpas foire de politique, justement en vertu de sa vocation: il doit qdhiinistrer, avant tout de fogon non partisane.[WEBER 1959: 128] This paper analyzes the political dynamics of the Lamidate of Rey-Bouba, one of the Fu16e states on Northern Cameroon, situated in the upper Benue River, and separated by the Adamawa Plateau from Atlantic coast, where a typical Indirect Rule was successively applied by the German and French colonial governments.Since the Lamidate ofRey Bouba belonged to an economically relatively unprofitable colony, Direct Rule was not ap…