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African Studies

Latest addition : 26 November 2010.

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  • Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Godfrey B. Tangwa
    For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so doing they have developed cultures, values, attitudes and perspectives to the problems, ethical and otherwise, that have arisen from the existential pressures of their situation. The problem, however, is that such values and perspectives do not necessarily form coherent ethical theories. Theory-making is a second order activity requiring a certain (...)

  • Challenge of Culture in Africa: From Restoration to Integration

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Bernard Nsokika Fonlon
    This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in ABBIA – Cameroon Cultural Review – under the title “Idea of Culture”. Its main argument is that indigenous Africans cultures must be the foundation on which the modern African cultural structure should be raised; the soil into which the new seed should be sown; the stem into which the new scion should be grafted; the sap that should enliven the entire organism. This culture, the object of imperialist mockery and rejected, (...)

  • 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 (...)

  • 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 (...)

  • 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 (...)