Power plays, Demagogy, External influences
1994: The peasant movement in Cameroon celebrates its tenth anniversary, grown and weakened at the same time by splits, internal quarrels, struggles and rivalries, all of which were ignited from the start and carefully nurtured around the government.

Cette année là, comme un signe des temps, la plupart des leaders de la première heure sont éjectés du pouvoir, ceux qui se maintiennent, y parviennent au prix d’efforts énormes. Dans toutes les situations vécues, le sort des leaders reposait entre les mains des délégués. Ces élus de la base qui ont eu à cœur d’exercer leur mandat en toute souveraineté, responsabilité et selon des schémas propres à la démocratie, apportant de cette manière, la preuve que le mouvement paysan camerounais subit l’influence du contexte national pour ce qui est de la gestion de la vie publique.

This collection attempts to restore the games the outcome of a long process, the narrative had to set its limits from the birth of the peasant movement in Cameroon. It is nourished by the experience of the SAILD, which deals with peasant problems on a daily basis. This experience was supplemented, for certain points, by a survey lasting several weeks with some fifty interviews, and this collection develops the plot through four situations corresponding to four peasant organisations that are representative of the local reality in several respects: AGBU, PCIDRK, BOSSAPAL and CFPC.
The intensity of this year's events will leave a lasting impression. Here are revealed the games and stakes of power in the peasantry as dictated by the search for democracy or the use of demagogy. Great moments centred on a poignant reality of peasant organisations, namely the learning of political life.