Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosimbom holds a BA in English and Linguistics (1996) and an MA in Comparative Literature (2000), both from the University of Buea, Cameroon, and a PhD in African Literature (2016) from the University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon. He has published commendably on the socioeconomic and politico-cultural realities of the postcolony through several book chapters and in journals such as LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Journal of the African Literature Association, Cultural Dynamics, Comparative Literature: East & West and CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture. In 2021 he co-edited Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs with Francis Nyamnjoh and Patrick Owusu. He has undertaken immense research on how Latin American epistemological foundations such as transmodernity, coloniality, decoloniality, pluriversity and subversity could be used to deconstruct and/or reconstruct postcolonial African societies. As a researcher, he has held Postdoctoral Fellowship positions at the Centre for Urban Management Studies (CUMS), University of Ghana, Legon (2019), the Centre for African Studies (CAS), University of Cape Town (2021) and presently at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA), University of Cape Town where he is researching on various aspects of the “African Intellectual Biographies” project.
Selected Publications
Journals
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Dialogics: Polyphonic Discourse as Textual Re-historization and Historical Re- textualization in August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” Epasa Moto: A Bilingual Journal of Arts, Science and Cultures, 3(2), 2008, pp. 83-109.
- Yosimbom, H.M. (2016). “Imperial Localism, Cosmopolitan Localism and the Cameroon Anglophone Decolonial Option in John Nkemngong Nkengasong’s Across the Mongolo.” Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa, 21(1), 2016, pp. 70-86.
- Yosimbom, H.M. Mapping Heterotopias of Apocryphal History in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s The Travail of Dieudonné.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 29(4), 2018, pp. 288-307.
Book Chapters
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Francis Nyamnjoh’s The Disillusioned African: A Philosophy of Liberation.” In The Repressed Expressed: Novel Perspectives on Black and Diasporic Literature, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankuma and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2017, pp. 1-21.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten: Unpacking Minority Struggles.” In Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankumah, and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2018, pp. 1-29.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Bate Besong’s Disgrace: Autobiographical Narcissus and Emanyankpe Collected Poems: Unmasking Francophone Cameroons’ Epistemicide.” In Living (In)Dependence: Critical Perspectives on Global Interdependence, edited by B. Ndi, A. Ankumah, and B. Fishkin, Bamenda: Langaa, 2018, pp. 217-51.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Shadow Lines: Confrontations, Configurations and Transpositions in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Intimate Strangers.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 16-43.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “The Divide That Binds? Francophone and Anglophone Cultures in Multi-Logue in Mathew Takwi’s Messing Manners.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 44-69.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “Neither Gallocentrics nor Anglocentrics: Tetraglossia in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money and The Travail of Dieudonné.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 70-94.
- Yosimbom, H.M. “The Aesthetics of Postcolonial Paratextuality in Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s Mind Searching.” In Rethinking Language and Literature in a Changing World, edited by Genevoix Nana and Andrew Ngeh, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019, pp. 95-120.