Cameroon’s Lay Private Education: Functioning in Institutionalised Illegality

As schools prepare to open for the 2012/2013 Academic Year, the Minister for Basic Education, Youssouf Hadidja Alim, has ordered about 800 “clandestine” schools to be shut down. This is not the first time such an order has been issued and the proprietors of many of these schools continue functioning as if nothing has been said