ABSTRACT
Roughly twenty-five years after the liberalization of social communication in Cameroon (1990), several studies were published on the media of this Central African country with its twenty million inhabitants. These studies, however, are exclusively interested in macrostructural aspects of communication and consequently in general and transverse problems such as press freedom, the status of journalists, and the sociopolitical role of media (Djimeli 2012; Kouleu 2007; Ndongo 1993; Okala 1999; Tjade 2001). They neglect the microstructures, i.e., the media enterprises (newspapers and audiovisual media) and their initiators. After the liberalization, a manifold media landscape has emerged in Cameroon due to the creativity, perseverance, and boldness of private entrepreneurs who challenge the dominant public media-Cameroon Radio and Television (CRTV) and the Cameroon Tribune-and create diversity and plurality of information.
