AROUSAL, EXPERIENCES, AND PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL MANAGEMENT OF THE NORMS’ CONFLICTS IN AFRICAN POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXT: CASE STUDY OF THE SUCCESSION PRACTICE IN CAMEROON

More than a half-century after its independence, Cameroonians, like other African people, are experiencing
many conflicts of norms in their succession practices. Among other conflicts, one can mention:
1. “Residual” or Interreligious conflict between Christians, Muslims, and Animists.
2. “Virtual” conflicts between Anglophone and Francophone people.
3. But the main source of conflicts is the “Ordinary” or Interpersonal conflicts between ancestral
and modern laws (of French or English inspiration), because both are legally accepted. SEEING THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN ANCESTRAL AND MODERN LEGAL NORMS RELATED TO SUCCESSION,
1. What do the victims of such conflicts experience from psycho-emotional point of view?
2. How do they manage these experiences of conflicts?
3. In which way can these experiences and their management contribute to the debates on social psychology?