Cameroon Culture Essay

The cultural mindset of the people changes over time as they begin thinking like the Western world. Culture according to (Tylor, 1958: 1) is that complex whole which includes knowledge, art, belief, morals, law, custom and any other skills acquired by man in his society. Neo-liberalism in cultural context shown by Comaroff and Comaroff (pg 279), explains that the world is characterized by movements which leads to spread of culture consisting of spread of religion and rise of occult economies and wealth produced by magic. In Cameroon, successful private companies or organizations that turn to acquire wealth especially in a short period of time is seen as occult/witchcraft practices . These believes also include Government officials. According to (Bell 1986), the culture of people influences how they response to change in the environment. It is worth taking note that Cameroons drawbacks are as a result of several reasons. As George Myers shows in his work, the period of colonial rule promotes the diversity of African experiences during colonialism and marks as a period of beginning of Urbanism. Looking at Cameroon, the Pre-colonial period comprised of slavery, gender discrimination like in relation to education which was thought by …show more content…
In line with his theory, Cameroon has experienced some developmental changes as a result of privatization and the post – neoliberalism stage is an emergence of development phase in Cameroon. There is expansion of social protection, implementation of pension policies in both the government and private sectors, improve child care, home for disables and more hospitals are opened. The competition among companies/corporations also leads to development with everyone striving to be the