Planning in Contemporary Africa: The State, Town Planning and Society in Cameroon (2003) (Non-Fiction)
by Ambe J. Njoh
Ashgate Publishing

USD$124.95/UK£65.00

A volume of thorough empirical research which aims to understand why European and Western planning models used so ubiquitously in post-colonial Africa despite an alarming rate of failure. The focus is on sub Saharan countries and Cameroon in particular, the only country to have been colonised by three different European powers.