Youth in the Public Space Use Policies in Cameroon

Between diurnal repression and nocturnal legitimacy

Abstract

This article sheds light on the construction of an inclusive urban policy which grants excluded actors access to central public spaces. It does so by analysing government responses to two forms of appropriation of public space, the furtive schemes of economic activity deployed during daytime and the popular commercial activities developed at night by youths, which both take place under technological and human surveillance.