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Decolonising the Academy
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2020
342 kr
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Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge production that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum …
Rational Consumer: Bad for Business
Democracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2018
428 kr
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This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations � persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols � and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene. It provides a …
Nyamnjoh: #RhodesMustFall
Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2016
579 kr
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This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist. Through everyday interactions and experiences of university students and professors, it explores the …
Eating and Being Eaten
Cannibalism as Food for Thought
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2018
598 kr
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This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively …
Christianity and Social Change in Contem
E-bok, 2020
592 kr
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This volume brings together seven empirically grounded contributions by African social scientists of different disciplinary backgrounds. The authors explore the social impact of religious innovation and competition in present day Africa. They represent a selection from an interdisciplinary …
Being and Becoming African As a Permanent Work in Progress
Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs
Av U. Nwosu, B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2021
921 kr
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This book is a timely addition to debates and explorations on the epistemological relevance of African proverbs, especially with growing calls for the decolonisation of African curricula. The editors and contributors have chosen to reflect on the diverse ways of being and becoming African as a …
Nyamnjoh: Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism a
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2022
533 kr
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This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between …
Angwafo: Fo S. A. N Angwafo III Remembered
As Seen by the People of Mankon, Cameroon and Beyond
E-bok, 2022
876 kr
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We are thrilled to share with you this rich harvest of tributes on Fo Solomon AnyeGhamoti Angwafo III of the Kingdom of Mankon. The tributes are by people and institutions from Mankon, Cameroon and the world at large, that knew him well and generously responded to our call for memories, testimonies …
Homeless Waters
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2011
519 kr
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Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they didn,t miss the father they hadn,t known. Later on, in the alluvial valleys of Bonfuma and the lands beyond, Ngoma experiences the thrills and …
Intimate Strangers
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2010
586 kr
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Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fianc, refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of …
Married But Available
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2008
686 kr
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Married But Available ventures into a theme about which people say as much as they withhold. It explores intersections between sex, money and power, challenging orthodoxies, revealing complexities and providing insights into the politics and economics of relationships. During six months of …
Mind Searching
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2007
519 kr
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In Mind Searching Nyamnjoh has attempted to do something rather clever - to expose, through the attitudes, feelings and thoughts of one man and a very simple story, the hypocrisy and corruption of Cameroon society and humanity in general, often using understatement and irony in good effect. The …
Disillusioned African, The
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2007
519 kr
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This humorous tale of the na?ve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh's protagonist travels …
Souls Forgotten
Av B Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2008
686 kr
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"e; "e;"e;One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "e;"e;"e;"e;Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be …
Convert, The
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2007
519 kr
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"e; "e;"e;This play tackles the theatrically attractive but ethically complex issue of Christian fundamentalism. Nyamnjoh, as a sociologist is well qualified to explore the social problems and psychological pressures which give rise to the born-again phenomenon, and the strong appeal of …
Predicaments
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2011
486 kr
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In this juvenalia, his first collection of poems, Francis Nyamnjoh takes the reader back in time, even as the past catches up with the present, to show how unchanging and even painful life can be. Accordingly, the poems celebrate, mourn, ridicule, lambast, and lament, thereby highlighting …
Stories from Abakwa
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2007
519 kr
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Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, as they are chased through an orchard for secretly harvesting avocadoes and mangoes. Smile as Mathias Chi's overloaded canoe almost loses balance. …
Mass Media and Democratisation in Camero
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2011
825 kr
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In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real …
Regional Balance and National Integratio
Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future
E-bok, 2011
1241 kr
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This book presents a series of reflections by Cameroon scholars on a variety of topics associated with regional balance and national integration. The different reflections look for answers to some burning questions of the day such as: Where are we coming from? Where are we going? How are we going …
Postcolonial Turn
Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa
E-bok, 2011
1070 kr
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This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local people,s own ways, significant …
University Crisis and Student Protests i
The 2005 -2006 University Students, Strike in Cameroon
E-bok, 2012
850 kr
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Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in …
C est l homme qui fait l homme
Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Cote d Ivoire
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2015
566 kr
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The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu,s precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid …
Modernising Traditions and Traditionalis
Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2015
429 kr
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Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural …
Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd
How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
Av B. Nyamnjoh
E-bok, 2017
670 kr
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This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practiced in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who …
