African Studies

Books

Whether Losing, Whether Winning
2009, author(s)-editor(s) G.D. Nyamndi
Essays in Political Realism An enthralling journey down memory lane and up the future’s road, this study of history, politics and the future reaches into the heart of human ambition and its hold on the collective destiny of any people. The fate of minorities, the quality and ultimate purpose of elections, the place of truth in human relations: these are some of the core concerns of this unique narrative. Although handled against the background of recent political events in Cameroon, these (...)
Les etudiants africains et la litterature negro-africaine d’expression francaise
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Amady Aly Dieng
Il y a maintenant plus de quarante sept ans que les étudiants organisés au sein de la Fédération des Etudiants d’Afrique Noire en France (FEANF) tenaient pour la première fois un séminaire à Paris sur les relations entre la littérature négro-africaine d’expression française et la politique. L’événement avait son importance dans la mesure où les traîtres à l’Afrique étaient démasqués sur le terrain littéraire. Il donnait aussi aux étudiants africains l’occasion de définir le rôle de la littérature dans les (...)
Landscaping Postcoloniality
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Joyce Ashuntantang
The Dissemination of Cameroon Anglophone Literature This is a foundational text on the production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature. The Republic of Cameroon is a bilingual country with English and French as the official languages. Ashuntantang shows that the pattern of production and dissemination of Anglophone Cameroon literature is not only framed by the minority status of English and English-speaking Cameroonians within the Republic of Cameroon, but is also a (...)
Cry my Beloved Africa
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Peter W. Vakunta
Essays on the Postcolonial Aura in Africa Cry My Beloved Africa is a compendium of essays having as locus the continent of Africa. It comprises insightful observations on the politics, governmental systems, political economy, cultural practices, educational systems and natural phenomena that impact on the lives of Africans. True to the tradition of French novelist Stendhal, the author intends this work to serve as a mirror that reflects the day-to-day living of the different peoples that (...)
The Power in the Writer
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Mwalimu George Ngwane
Collected Essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the rationale for Eurocentric democratic paradigms which have partly contributed to the demise of a concrete democratic development (...)
Africa’s Political Wastelands
2008, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Fru Doh
The Bastardization of Cameroon Africa’s Political Wastelands explores and confirms the fact that because of irresponsible, corrupt, selfish, and unpatriotic kleptocrats parading as leaders, the ultimate breakdown of order has become the norm in African nations, especially those south of the Sahara. The result is the virtual annihilation of once thriving and proud nations along with the citizenry who are transformed into wretches, vagrants, and in the extreme, refugees. Doh uses Cameroon as (...)
Stereotyping Africa: Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Emmanuel Fru Doh
Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about “Africa,” as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state. So one begins wondering why it is that Africans, on the other hand, do not refer to individual European countries as “Europe” simply, then the trends and consequences of stereotyping begin setting in just as one is getting used to being asked if Africa has a (...)
Scribbles from the Den
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Dibussi Tande
Essays on Politics and Collective Memory in Cameroon This collection consists of 49 insightful essays by leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, which originally appeared on his award-winning blog Scribbles from the Den. These essays tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today such as the stalled democratization process, the perennial Anglophone problem, the crisis of higher education, the absence of the rule of law, the lack of leadership renewal, a (...)
Genuine Intellectuals. Academic and Social Responsibilities of Universities in Africa
2009, author(s)-editor(s) Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
This book, slim as it looks, took Bernard Nsokika Fonlon the best part of five laborious years to write 1965-9 inclusive. He writes: "I was penning away as students in France were up in arms against the academic Establishment, and their fury almost toppled a powerful, prestigious, political giant like General de Gaulle. In America students, arms in hand, besieged and stormed the buildings of the University Administration, others blew up lecture halls in Canada - the student revolt, a very (...)
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) Tatah Mentan
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 (...)