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Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group
Welcome to Langaa RPCIG
The mission of Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group (Langaa RPCIG) is to contribute to the cultural development and renaissance of Africa. This is achieved by conducting research, providing training in research and writing, and publishing and promoting African scholarship and creative writing. Langaa, not set up for monetary profit-making, is supported by founding members and other contributors, financial grants and efforts of volunteers.
Langaa is physically located in Bamenda and Buea (Cameroon), although its members and volunteers operate from different parts of the world. So far, Langaa has published over 100 titles, mainly on Cameroon, but also on other African countries like Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Outstanding scholars and ordinary people familiar with the Cameroonian and African context provide editorial guidance. Each manuscript is systematically reviewed before a publication decision. Peer reviews, reader reports, and editorial changes are stored as evidence of the rigour of Langaa’s processes.
Latest books
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The State in Africa: An Analysis of Impacts of Historical Trajectories of Global Capitalist Expansion and Domination in the Continent
2010, author(s)-editor(s)This book critically analyzes the complex relationship between the African state and capitalist globalization. It describes in great detail the significant effects of the various historical trajectories of global capitalist expansion on the nature and functions of the African state while focusing on the present triumph of globalized neo-liberalism on the African continent. The history of the state in Africa has been misread and misinterpreted through the Eurocentric convictions of European (...) -
Shrouded Blessings
2010, author(s)-editor(s)Shrouded Blessings is a tale of four people on a collision course. Naomi, a Xhosa schoolgirl and enchantress given to prostitution that counts the S.A Police Commissioner among her clientele, approaches Fr Bryn Flynn, an Irish priest at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King, in Johannesburg, for confession. But Fr Flynn is reeling from the consequences of a parishioner’s botched abortion. To the Cathedral also comes Bonginkosi, inheritor of a business empire, to surrender a (...) -
Rock of God
2010, author(s)-editor(s)Rock of God centres on a significant war that Nso fought with Bamoun in the 1880s, and which war resulted in a devastating defeat for the Bamouns. During this war, a major Nso combat rule was broken: the Sultan (king) of Bamoun was decapitated. Both local story tellers and historians have indicated that the Sultan was only supposed to be captured alive. The play explores some very compelling reasons for this violation. It mocks any attempt at categorization because the events involved are (...) -
Les murmures de l’harmattan
2010, author(s)-editor(s)L’auteur de Les Murmures de l’harmattan reproduit la vie dans un certain ordre harmonique enveloppée de rêves soigneusement triés et équilibrés. Observateur attentif de sa société dont il décrit avec une attachante passion les grands mouvements qui donnent à l’existence une réelle densité, Emmanuel Matateyou dans ce cocktail de poèmes exquis promène le lecteur à travers la société africaine où l’Harmattan, ce vent d’Est, détruit en balayant à son passage les laideurs, les vicissitudes et les déchirements pour (...) -
Nul n’a le monopole du français: Deux poètes du Cameroon anglophone
2010, author(s)-editor(s) ,Les forces de la nature aient voulu que ces deux poètes, linguistes, traducteurs et enseignants chercheurs anglophones soient tous nés à Ndop au Département de Ngoketunjia, dans la Région du Nord Ouest du Cameroun. L’un basé aux USA et l’autre en Australie. Répugnés par la pourriture de régime politique dans leur propre pays ainsi que les égards des politiques vis-à-vis de minorités anglophones, ces deux explorent de fond en comble dans leur poésie, les problèmes existentiels, non seulement de cette (...)
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