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Viewing political representation in less structured, corrupt and poorly governed societies exclusively through the Burkean trustee lens, it is easy to miss why and how politics works in such polities. During the one party politics in Cameroon, and particularly in Douala and Yaoundé, the political order crafted and imposed a so called ‘consensus’ consisting for the symbolic political domination of the ‘first comers’. The political liberalization which is the process of rights allocation to citizens which started during the early 1990 s reopened and amplified the problem of representation, offering the exogenous communities the opportunity to challenge the political domination of the original inhabitants. In the dynamics of liberalization, in order to square the complexity, the government initiated a pro diversity policy consisting in a positive discrimination of the ‘first comers’ while selecting the representatives. Many scholars have addressed the most controversial aspect of this policy, that is, its incompatibility with the neo liberal color blind citizenship theory. This article assesses an evaluation of its implementation twenty years after.

Democratization and Accommodation of Political Representation in Cameroon: The Case Study of the Sawa and Beti People