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An overview of the press and mass media in Africa today and their contribution to democratization...
Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d’Ivoire
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 ...
Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa
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 s...
Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary peop...
Democracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture
This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations persuasiv...
How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds
This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualis...
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 sho...
It's 1896 in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Jekesai, a young Shona girl, escapes a forced arranged marriage by converting to Christianity and be...
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A Sweet-Footed African captures the sense of being James Jibraeel Alhaji; the milestones and challenges of his life and his reconciliation with emotio...
A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon
This study of Cameroon captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the growing disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has c...
Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimen...
Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana
Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally tr...
Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prosp're, ...
This humorous tale of the naïve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in g...
A Test of Anglophone Solidarity
This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbo...
In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, oppo...
Dieudonnes life is spun from the threads of one of Africa's grand moral dilemmas, in which personal responsibility is intertwined with the social cath...
Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging
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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 d...
One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer a...
This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to ter...
Overnight, Delia Keller went from penniless preacher's granddaughter to rich young heiress. She's determined to use her money to find the security she...
Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, ...
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A Case for Convivial Scholarship
Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual remin...
Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 Frobenius-Institut Goethe-University
Central to the Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 is an invitation to take incompleteness seriously in how we imagine, relate to and seek to understand a w...
Pearl, a young woman, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of class, culture, and identity. Guided by the resolute supp...
Self-regulatory Councils in Southern Africa and Elsewhere
The Flower of Freedom in Mimboland
In the dystopian nation of Mimboland, President Longstay's tyrannical reign has crumbled, leaving a nation scarred but hopeful. His own daughter, Libe...