Ethnicity, Citizenship And Identity Formation: Cameroonian Diaspora As Alternative Developmental Agents To Africa

Abstract

This paper titled seeks to explain Africans in the Diaspora as a distinct group with a purpose. The paper further explains their vision of citizenship and identity formation, and assumed that these were the main ingredients for statehood and belonging to a people. Without the gaining of their citizenship and identity, it would have been difficult to uphold the economic and political basis for alternative development and strategic planning for Africa. The paper x-rays the African mission in the Diaspora in terms of higher education and Policy Studies along multi-disciplines, which became the main ingredients they gained from the Diaspora to transfer and industrialise the African continent; to re-build Africa's administration and politics, democracy, economics, financial institutions, education, public health and other alternative developmental strategies which could help in the good running process in Africa if respected. Here, it argued that their long stay in the Diasporic world, along multi-ethnic groups propagated their ethnicity, hence, a cry for belonging. The paper recommends some valuable alternative strategies for development, which if implemented could lead to a way forward for the growth of Africa in general and Cameroons in particular.