The study examines Germano-Anglo colonial towns in Cameroon to determine factors accounting for the scarcity of infrastructure as well as streets and places with Eurocentric names. Using primary and secondary data, it demonstrates that the lack of infrastructure in the polity is a function of negligence by colonial and post-colonial authorities. With few pieces of public infrastructure, the authorities have had few streets and places to attribute names from Eurocentric lexical dictionaries. These findings contribute to knowledge of the relative impact of endogenous and exogenous factors on toponymic traditions as well as inter-country differentials in African countries’ development profiles.

该研究考察了喀麦隆的日耳曼-安格洛殖民小镇，以确定造成基础设施稀缺以及以欧洲为中心名称的街道和地点稀缺的因素。使用主要和次要数据，它表明，政体缺乏基础设施是殖民当局和后殖民当局疏忽的原因。由于公共基础设施很少，当局几乎没有街道和地方来为欧洲中心词汇词典命名。这些发现有助于了解内源性和外源性因素对地名传统的相对影响以及非洲国家发展概况中的国家间差异。