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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 300 titles, mainly on Cameroon, but also on other African countries like Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, 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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Unmasking Social Science Imperialism: Globalization Theory As A Phase Of Academic Colonialism
2015, author(s)-editor(s)Contemporary social science is a product of the capitalist world-system and Eurocentrism is constitutive of the geoculture of this system characterized by the parochiality of its universalism, assumptions about the superiority of Western civilization and imposition as the sole theory of global progress. The creation of these structures of knowledge, specifically the institutionalization of the social sciences, is a phenomenon that is inextricably linked to the very formation and maturation (...) -
Téléphonie et mobilité au Mali
2015, author(s)-editor(s)Le livre présent part du constat que l’avènement de la téléphonie mobile au Mali a coïncidé avec la libéralisation économique, l’internationalisation des échanges et de nouveaux équilibres dans les espaces sociaux tels le marché de Bamako et dans les régions centre et nord du Mali, déjà soumis à des tensions et/ou des recompositions importantes. Celles-ci se sont traduites par l’accroissement des faits de mobilité tant à l’interne qu’à l’externe du pays (migrants et déplacés, etc.) ; l’apparition de (...) -
Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une Poetique Camerounaise
2015, author(s)-editor(s)En se servant des tournures linguistiques aussi subversives que les messages nichés entre les lignes, Requiem pour Ongola en Camfranglais: Une poétique Camerounaisede Vakunta présente au lecteur une critique acerbe de la corruption du lexique « démocratie » en «demo-folie” et la corruption galopante chez “l’Homme malade de l’Afrique. » Écrit en Camfranglais, ce recueil se qualifierait de la poésie de résistance du premier plan: “Tokking’ par la bouche des sans-voix,” l’auteur ne ménage aucun effort (...) -
One Eternal Sleep
2015, author(s)-editor(s)In this volume Bill F. Ndi portrays life, death, and dying as one great adventure through which one would explore the limitless bounds of Life. At its best, the collection echoes the words of anthropologist Francis B. Nyamnjoh when he underlines that, “one is only dead to particular context as a way of making oneself alive to prospective new contexts.” Ndi in this collection invites the reader to learn the art of living through the art of dying and accepting death. ISBN 9789956792313 | (...) -
Nyuma Ya Pazia
2015, author(s)-editor(s)Nyuma Ya Pazia inazungumzia ubadhirifu unaomhusisha rais na mawaziri wake katika nchi ya Mafuriko au Abracadabra. Rais akishirikiana na waziri mkuu walileta kampuni ya kigeni ya kuua wadudu ya Richmen kuwekeza kwenye kuzalisha umeme nchini Mafurikony; Richmen to invest in power generation in Mafuriko. Kupitia rushwa na ushawishi wa wakubwa hawa Richmen ilipata tenda na kutumika kama mrija wa kuibia mabilioni ya fedha za umma toka Benki Kuu. Wananchi walipogundua jinai hii waliiangusha (...)
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