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Sociology

Latest addition : 11 August 2011.

This category's books

  • Nso and Its Neighbours: Readings in the Social History of the Western Grassfields of Cameroon

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) B. Chem-Langhee, V.G. Fanso
    This is a rich and compelling volume of readings in social history on Nso’ and its neighbours in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. It consists of 19 essays by some of the leading historians, archeologists and ethnographers of the region, with seminal contributions by Jean-Pierre Warnier, Paul Nchoji Nkwi, Bongfen Chem-Langhee, Phyllis Kaberry, E.M Chilver, Miriam Goheen, Ian Flower, Dan Lantum and V.G. Fanso. The book covers a broad range of themes from precolonial times to date, (...)

  • Ethnicity, Citizenship and State in Eastern Africa

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Aquiline Tarimo, S.J.
    This volume, from an Africa perspective, examines the relationship between ethnicity and citizenship within the framework of nation-state. Its objective and scope engage relational aspects of political integration, awaken public conscience, and motivate civic engagement. It provides a platform that could be considered prerequisite for political transformation. Such a framework is indispensable not only for challenging the politics of exclusion and marginalization, but also for (...)

  • Society and Change in Bali Nyonga: Critical Perspectives

    2011, author(s)-editor(s) Jude Fokwang, Kehbuma Langmia
    Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 in habitants, sixteen kilometres southwest of Bamenda, the capital of the North West region, Cameroon. If Cameroon has been aptly referred to in many circles as Africa in miniature, then Bali Nyonga, since its founding in the mid 19th century is emblematic of this so-called ’multicultural’ region. This book is about change in Bali Nyonga, but it is also about change in a typical postcolonial African setting grappling with a (...)

  • Nul n’a le monopole du français: Deux poètes du Cameroon anglophone

    2010, author(s)-editor(s) Bill F. NDI, Peter W. Vakunta
    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 (...)

  • The Strangers of New Bell

    2008, author(s)-editor(s) Lynn Schler
    Immigration, Public Space and Community in Colonial Douala, Cameroon, 1914-1960 Confusion, struggle, commotion and absurdity: these characterise the urban encounter between the African immigrant community and colonial officials in Douala, Cameroon. Even the physical landscape reflects a painfully enduring history of marginalisation, of exclusion from power and privilege. This book studies a community of African immigrants - or ’strangers’ - designated to quarters in New Bell, Douala, in (...)