Umaru Hassan Buba

Evolution of Mbororo Habitat,indicator of Sedentarization in Cameroon: Contribution to the Development of Mbororo Habitat Case of Boyo Division North West Region of Cameroon Umaru Hassan Buba

The evolution of the Mbororo habitat being an essential element of sedentarisation and space management is a phenomenon that preoccupied many researcher, needs to be encouraged in Boyo, Cameroon. Their traditional mode of life and cultural values of these Nomadic livestock breeders has been a source of multiple farmers grassier conflicts in Boyo. This problem has been so alarming for the last two decades due to rapid population growth with a corresponding increase in scarcity of farmland and grazing fields. The main objectives of the study is to show and analyze how sedentarisation is an ideal factor of socio-economic and cultural well being as well as an element of space management. Thus to what extend has the evolution of this habitats and sedentarisation of the Mbororo in Boyo ameliorate their living standard and its conflict resolution. Field research was implemented in the settled livestock breeders villages. Primary data were obtained throught field observation,interview, guides and questioners,secondly data were acquired throught internet,sources,libraries and maps. Data analyses proves that the Fulani-Mbororo housing has evolved qualitatively,quantitatively and functionally.