Articles · No 25 (2017): Afrika Zamani: Revue annuelle d’histoire africaine

Sleeping Sickness Epidemic in British Southern Cameroons 1922-1961: The History of a Colonial Medical Response

  • Michael Kpughe Lang
    Michael Kpughe Lang
    Department of History, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Bamenda.
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Résumé

Cet article examine l’engagement des responsables administratifs et médicaux coloniaux britanniques dans la campagne contre l’épidémie de maladie du sommeil dans le Cameroun occidental. L’engagement était justifié par l’impact négatif de la maladie sur l’agenda colonial et impliquait la mise en œuvre de politiques de contrôle. La lutte s’effectuait sur trois fronts: le traitement chez l’homme, le traitement chez les animaux et l’éradication de la mouche tsé-tsé. Les mesures de contrôle faisaient fi des stratégies d’adaptation des populations autochtones et étaient mal ciblées, brutales et imparfaites. Leur application impliquait des interactions complexes entre colonisateurs, sujets coloniaux et intermédiaires locaux. Cela a occasionné des perturbations socio-économiques et une résistance des indigènes en raison de l’épuisement des moyens de subsistance. Les mesures de contrôle ont certes stimulé les investissements d’exploitation coloniaux, mais elles ont entraîné une faible productivité économique et le sous- développement des populations locales, qui ne bénéficiaient d’aucun accès à la nourriture, aux voyages, au commerce et aux emplois en dehors de leurs communautés. Cela était destructeur pour la vie en communauté, économiquement douloureux et nuisait globalement à la fierté, au bien-être et à la survie des autochtones.

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Cameroun occidental maladie du sommeil colonialisme exploitant résistance survie

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  • Michael Kpughe Lang

    Department of History, Higher Teacher Training College, University of Bamenda.

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