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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review.html">Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa? (Book Review)</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><a name="p0"></a><strong>Originally published <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.simoncolumbus.com/2011/03/02/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review/" target="_blank">here</a></strong></p> <p><strong> <p id="fd-apa-txt">Bruijn, M. ., Nyamnjoh, F. B., & Brinkman, I. (2009). <em>Mobile phones: The new talking drums of everyday Africa</em>. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa.</p> <p>I have been reading up on mobile phone use in developing countries recently for a couple of papers. One of the few books entirely devoted to the issue is “Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa”, edited by Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.ascleiden.nl/Research/ConnectionsAndTransformations.aspx">African Studies Centre in Leiden</a> and published in 2009 in cooperation with Cameroon’s Langaa group. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.simoncolumbus.com/2011/03/02/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review/#p0" title="Permalink to this paragraph">#</a><a name="p1"></a>The book takes an anthropological and historical perspective on the role of mobile telephony in a wide range of (sub-Saharan) African societies.</p> </strong></p> <p> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review.html#more">Continue reading "Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa? (Book Review)" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">June 18, 2011 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa-book-review.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e201543316d0a3970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/politics-in-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Profess Democracy but Implement Autocracy: Politics in Nyamnjoh's Married But Available</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By George Esunge Fominyen</strong></p> <p><strong>Is Francis Nyamnjoh’s *<em>Married But Available </em>simply an account of the experiences of Lily Loveless, a Muzugulander (western) researcher, who travels to Mimboland (Cameroon/Africa) to study the relationship between sexuality and power? Or is it about the telenovela-styled sneak peek into the lives of couples by Britney, Lily’s young research assistant? Isn’t it a, rather, witty stab at African leadership, democracy and the role of the media in society? </strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/politics-in-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#more">Continue reading "Profess Democracy but Implement Autocracy: Politics in Nyamnjoh's Married But Available" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">June 18, 2011 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/politics-in-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/politics-in-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#comments">Comments (2)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-publishing entry-category-videos entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e2014e8936ea9c970d"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/video-talk-by-prof-nyamjoh-about-codesria.html">(Video) Talk by Prof. Nyamnjoh about CODESRIA</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>In his address, Francis Nyamnjoh introduces the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) as a model for open access development and implementation. CODESRIA is a multi-disciplinary, pan-African organization based in Senegal, “working towards bringing back the missing African voice” to the global publishing industry. </strong></p> <p><iframe frameborder="0" height="320" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://player.vimeo.com/video/5991746?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400"></iframe></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://vimeo.com/5991746">Francis Nyamnjoh – Scholarly Communication in Africa: Project Scoping Workshop</a> from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://vimeo.com/user2129142">Creative R&D</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">June 18, 2011 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/publishing/">Publishing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/videos/">Videos</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/video-talk-by-prof-nyamjoh-about-codesria.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/video-talk-by-prof-nyamjoh-about-codesria.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-media entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e201538f43b75b970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/africas-media-between-professional-ethics-and-cultural-belonging.html">Africa’s Media: Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <div id="fd-apa-txt"><strong>Nyamnjoh, F. B. (2010). <em>Africa's media: Between professional ethics and cultural belonging</em>. Windhoek: Fesmedia Africa, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.</strong></div> <div><strong>In 2005 I published Africa’s Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging. One of the main findings of that study was that the media have assumed a partisan, highly politicised, militant role in Africa. They have done so by dividing citizens into the righteous and the wicked, depending on their party-political leanings, ideologies, regional, cultural or ethnic belonging. By considering the Cameroonian experience, the book sought to understand how scapegoatism, partisanship, and regional and ethnic tendencies in the media have affected their liberal democratic responsibility to act as honest, fair and neutral mediators – accessible to all and sundry. It did this by looking at polarisation in the press and at how the media have shaped and</strong><br/><strong>been shaped by the politics of belonging since the early 1990s. </strong></div> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/africas-media-between-professional-ethics-and-cultural-belonging.html#more">Continue reading "Africa’s Media: Between Professional Ethics and Cultural Belonging" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">June 18, 2011 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/media/">Media</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/africas-media-between-professional-ethics-and-cultural-belonging.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/africas-media-between-professional-ethics-and-cultural-belonging.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-communication entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e201538f43c6fd970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/re-thinking-communication-research-and-development-in-africa.html">Re-thinking Communication Research and Development in Africa</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Keynote address for 4th IDIA Conference 2010, UCT, Cape Town South Africa</strong></p> <p><strong>Introduction </strong></p> <p><strong>Development for Africa is fraught with a multiplicity of exogenously generated ideas, models and research paradigms, all with the purported goal of ‘alleviating’ or bringing about ‘the end of poverty … in our lifetime’ (cf. Sachs 2005). This discourse, which like fashion, goes round in circles, is carried on mainly by ‘development’ agents and ‘experts’ (mainly social and pseudo-social scientists moonlighting through consultancies) and who often limit the question of development to the problematic of achieving growth or ‘the end of poverty’ within the context of neo-liberal economic principles. </strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/re-thinking-communication-research-and-development-in-africa.html#more">Continue reading "Re-thinking Communication Research and Development in Africa" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">June 18, 2011 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/communication/">Communication</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/re-thinking-communication-research-and-development-in-africa.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/re-thinking-communication-research-and-development-in-africa.html#comments">Comments (3)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-africa entry-category-cameroon entry-category-ethnicity_regionalism entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20133f26ba41b970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/07/racism-ethnicity-and-the-media-in-africa.html">Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <strong>Francis B. Nyamnjoh (Originally published in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/248" target="_blank">Africa Spectrum</a>)<br/><br/>Abstract<br/></strong><p><strong>This paper demonstrates the extent to which the media and belonging in Africa are torn between competing and often conflicting claims of bounded and flexible ideas of culture and identity. It draws on studies of xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa, inspired by the resilience of the politicization of culture and identity, to discuss the hierarchies and inequalities that underpin political, economic and social citizenship in Africa and the world over, and the role of the media in the production, enforcement and contestation of these hierarchies and inequalities. In any country with liberal democratic aspirations or pretensions, the media are expected to promote national citizenship and its emphasis on large-scale, assimilationist and territorially bounded belonging, while turning a blind eye to those who fall through the cracks as a result of racism and/or ethnicity. Little wonder that such an exclusionary articulation of citizenship is facing formidable challenges from its inherent contradictions and closures, and from an upsurge in the politics of recognition and representation by small-scale communities claiming autochthony at a historical juncture where the rhetoric espouses flexible mobility, postmodern flux and discontinuity.</strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/248/248" target="_blank">Click here to download the full text in PDF format</a>.</strong></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">July 20, 2010 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/africa/">Africa</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/cameroon/">Cameroon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/ethnicity_regionalism/">Ethnicity & Regionalism</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/07/racism-ethnicity-and-the-media-in-africa.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/07/racism-ethnicity-and-the-media-in-africa.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20133ecd43988970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/04/book-review-the-social-life-of-maids.html">Book Review: The social life of 'maids'</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Originally published on </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://pambazuka.org/en/category/books/63694" target="_blank"><strong>Pambazuka News</strong></a></p> <p><strong><span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: ">Efua Prah reviews Francis Nyamnjoh's 'Intimate Strangers', a book in which 'we learn and unlearn a lot about human beings and the solidarities they forge and deny one another'.<br/></span><br/></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2013480044ee6970c-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><strong><img alt="Intimate Strangers_Nyamnjoh" border="0" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451ce8669e2013480044ee6970c " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2013480044ee6970c-800wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px" title="Intimate Strangers_Nyamnjoh"/></strong></a><strong> Through Francis Nyamnjoh’s Immaculate of Mimboland, a foreigner in Botswana, we learn and unlearn a lot about human beings and the solidarities they forge and deny one another. </strong></p> <p><strong>I think my sense of what was normal and accepted behaviour really got tested as I read the stories Immaculate transcribed for Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny. My surprised reaction really is exemplary of how easy it is to normalise certain ways of being (like what our expectations are and what we measure as acceptable) and categorise relationships according to these definitions.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/04/book-review-the-social-life-of-maids.html#more">Continue reading "Book Review: The social life of 'maids'" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">April 20, 2010 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/04/book-review-the-social-life-of-maids.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/04/book-review-the-social-life-of-maids.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8792f47970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/a-review-of-two-books-by-francis-nyamnjoh.html">A Review of Two Books by Francis Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <strong>BARBARA HARLOW (<em>Race & Class</em>, Vol. 51, No. 3, 99-101, 2010)</strong> <blockquote dir="ltr"> <p><strong><em>The Travail of Dieudonné</em> By FRANCIS B. NYAMNJOH (Nairobi, East African Educational Publishers,2008), 164 pp.</strong></p> <p><strong><em>Mobile Phones: the new talking drums of everyday Africa</em> By MIRJAM DE BRUIJN, FRANCIS NYAMNJOH and INGE BRINKMAN, eds (Leiden, African Studies Centre/Bamenda, Cameroon, Langaa Research and Publishing, 2009), 173 pp.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p><strong>Chopngomna is the only one of the habitués gathered in the Grand Canari bar who has a mobile phone; in fact, he ‘owned two mobile phones – the latest cutest and most expensive Nokia and Samsung in town; phones</strong> <strong>endowed with the fanciest ring tones that made him a popular spectacle around Nyamandem’. The group assembled that day, a day that extended well into evening, however, was more intent on another kind of communication, Dieudonné’s rambling account of his ‘travail’ – travail in the sense of ordeal, but also in the French sense of work or job, since The Travail of Dieudonné, written in English, is set in Mimboland/Cameroon, ruled by President Longstay, where French is but one of the colonial languages, and Dieudonné’s storytelling is also inflected dramatically with local pidgin and indigenous aphorisms and proverbs, along with frequent Insha ‘Allah’s. Nor is Dieudonné interested in a mobile phone of his own, no matter how cute or sexy or even fancy the ringtone, although one of the local beer companies, his favourite, is sponsoring ‘winning caps’ that could, if he were lucky, land him such an otherwise prized possession.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/a-review-of-two-books-by-francis-nyamnjoh.html#more">Continue reading "A Review of Two Books by Francis Nyamnjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">February 08, 2010 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/a-review-of-two-books-by-francis-nyamnjoh.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/a-review-of-two-books-by-francis-nyamnjoh.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8792317970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/the-ethics-of-research-on-human-subjects-in-africa.html">The ethics of research on human subjects in Africa</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: "><strong>Apollo Rwomire and Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2007) </strong><em><strong>Challenges and Responsibilities of Social Research in</strong> <strong>Africa: Ethical Issues.</strong></em></span><strong><span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: ">Addis Ababa, The Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), 212 pages, and paperback, P120, ISBN 99912-572-9-2 (has an index of key names, but not a subject index). Available at BooksBotswana and Exclusive Books.</span> </strong></p> <p><strong>Reviewed by SHERIDAN GRISWOLD (Originally published in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=7&aid=26&dir=2009/April/Friday17" target="_blank">Mmegi Online)</a><br><br>Challenges and Responsibilities of Social Research in Africa: Ethical Issues is a collection of 21 essays that should be of interest to a variety of people, including researchers and consumers of research. </strong></p> <p><strong>Its editors are well known in Botswana. Apollo Rwomire, a Ugandan, has taught in the Department of Social Work at the University of Botswana (UB) since 1993. His recent books include Social Problems in Africa (2001) and Human Impact on Environment and Sustainable Development in Africa (2003). </strong></p> <p><strong>Francis B Nyamnjoh, a Cameroonian, is an anthropologist and sociologist who has written five works of fiction including The Disillusioned African (1995) and The Travails of Dieudonne (2008). His academic books span topics as diverse as sexuality, xenophobia, democracy, the media and Magical Interpretations, Material Realities (2001).</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/the-ethics-of-research-on-human-subjects-in-africa.html#more">Continue reading "The ethics of research on human subjects in Africa" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">February 08, 2010 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/the-ethics-of-research-on-human-subjects-in-africa.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2010/02/the-ethics-of-research-on-human-subjects-in-africa.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a76e6d10970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/12/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Review of Francis Nyamnjoh's 'Married but Available'</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Vicensia Shule gives an appreciative review of Francis Nyamnjoh's 'Married but Available'.</strong></p> <p><strong>The title of Francis Nyamnjoh’s 'Married but Available' (MBA) is both inviting and intriguing. Being MBA as opposed to having an MBA! Reading the cover page, it was evident to me that the author had set out to refute, or at least interrogate, the existing practice of people being simultaneously married and available for relationships with persons other their married partners. This is a practice that can be traced to almost all societies of the world. Nyamnjoh sheds light on this phenomenon not only in relation to the traditions of the fictional Mimboland in which the novel is set, but more on the global motives behind the possibility of marriage and availability. The most fascinating aspect of Mimboland is its unique ‘products’, such as Mimbo Wonder beer, Air Mimbo and the University of Mimbo, which surface throughout the novel.</strong>  </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/12/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#more">Continue reading "Review of Francis Nyamnjoh's 'Married but Available'" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">December 21, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/12/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/12/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a5d1e341970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/book-review-francis-b-nyamnjoh-2008-souls-forgotten.html">Book Review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, (2008). Souls Forgotten.</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <strong>By Tanja Estella Bosch (Originally published on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/teblog" target="_blank">TEBlog)</a></strong> <p><strong>This satirical portrayal of the fictional West African 'Mimboland’ begins with the anguished reflections of a rather stereotypical Emmanuel, experiencing an emotional breakdown of sorts after failing university exams. Acutely aware of the unrealistic expectations of his family and the rural villagers who pin all their hopes on his return, Emmanuel simultaneously navigates his way through a shaky relationship and the dirty, dangerous yet glamorous streets of the fast city.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/book-review-francis-b-nyamnjoh-2008-souls-forgotten.html#more">Continue reading "Book Review: Francis B. Nyamnjoh, (2008). Souls Forgotten." »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 09, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/book-review-francis-b-nyamnjoh-2008-souls-forgotten.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/book-review-francis-b-nyamnjoh-2008-souls-forgotten.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a5d1e0c5970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/chose-promise-chose-d%C3%BBe-note-de-lecture-souls-forgotten-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">Chose promise, chose dûe : Note de Lecture Souls Forgotten de Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Par Nathalie Gabiam<br/><br/>D’abord je tiens à vous remercier pour l’honneur que vous m’avez fait par la dédicace de ce premier volume de SOULS FORGOTTEN. Comme je vous l’ai dit dans notre discussion, à mon avis, l’histoire de ce roman ne ressemble pas du tout à la trame de vos autres romans que j’ai pu lire. Il me paraît plus profond car le thème étudié porte à réfléchir sur le monde visible et le monde invisible. Sur la relation entre nos pères et nos ancêtres défunts et les préoccupations des villageois par rapport aux préoccupations des citadins. Le cadre est tellement bien décrit que parfois on se retrouve là-dedans ; les quartiers pauvres des villes avec leur misère et le manque d’infrastructures le plus élémentaire (pas d’eau courante, pas de toilettes), l’insalubrité et les gens qui se battent pour survivre.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/chose-promise-chose-d%C3%BBe-note-de-lecture-souls-forgotten-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#more">Continue reading "Chose promise, chose dûe : Note de Lecture Souls Forgotten de Francis B. Nyamnjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 09, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/chose-promise-chose-d%C3%BBe-note-de-lecture-souls-forgotten-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/10/chose-promise-chose-d%C3%BBe-note-de-lecture-souls-forgotten-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a55e10db970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/08/note-de-lecture-sur-marrried-but-available-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">Note de lecture sur "Marrried But Available" de Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Par Ngo Nlend Nadeige Laure </strong></p> <p><strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a506fb4d970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Marrid but available" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d83451ce8669e20120a506fb4d970b" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a506fb4d970b-800wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px" title="Marrid but available"/></a> C’est une image véritablement scabreuse que celle du <em>Mimboland</em>, ou peut être devrait on dire : <em>Libidoland</em> – Bacchus conduisant fatalement à Vénus - que celle projetée dans ce qui tient plus d’un traité sur la sociologie sexuelle que d’une oeuvre de fiction, et dont l’intitulé seule en dit long sur la nature épicée du contenu. <em>Married But Available</em>, pour citer cette dernière sortie littéraire de Francis B. Nyamnjoh, n’a pas failli à la tradition du tragi- comique qui caractérise l’univers de l’auteur. Un univers où l’humour décapant et le dramatique s’allient et se combinent avec une régularité et une aisance difficilement égalables, pour servir à un public chaque fois plus conquis, le divertissant menu que constitue ce qui désormais est connu comme la spécialité du chef, à savoir, les tribulations du <em>Mimboland</em>.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/08/note-de-lecture-sur-marrried-but-available-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#more">Continue reading "Note de lecture sur "Marrried But Available" de Francis B. Nyamnjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">August 19, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/08/note-de-lecture-sur-marrried-but-available-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/08/note-de-lecture-sur-marrried-but-available-de-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e2011571bbfd0f970b"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/a-journey-into-dejection-or-the-denunciation-of-resignation-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-souls-forg.html">A journey into dejection or the denunciation of resignation: A review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten </a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p style="COLOR: #800000"><strong style="COLOR: #800000">Souls Forgotten (355 pages; Langaa research and Publishing CIG, 2008)</strong></p> <p><strong> <span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS">Reviewed by George Esunge Fominyen</span></strong></p> <p><strong>It took Emmanuel Kwanga four years after dropping out of university to take control of his life and decide to set up an NGO to assist his community reeling in neglect, instead of griping about the fate of the rich and poor, the corrupt and the defenceless in his country Mimboland. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/" target="_blank" title="Nyamnjoh's blog">Francis Nyamnjoh</a> in <em><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline">Souls Forgotten</span></em> (2008) used the subtlety of prose to tell Cameroonians in 355 pages what the U.S Ambassdor Janet Garvey said to them via a speech to the American Chamber of Commerce in Douala in June 2009 : it is time to take ownership of their destiny, their government, their community.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/a-journey-into-dejection-or-the-denunciation-of-resignation-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-souls-forg.html#more">Continue reading "A journey into dejection or the denunciation of resignation: A review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten " »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">July 04, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/a-journey-into-dejection-or-the-denunciation-of-resignation-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-souls-forg.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/a-journey-into-dejection-or-the-denunciation-of-resignation-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-souls-forg.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-6a00d83451ce8669e2011570c6ecc4970c"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-a-nose-for-money-and-the-travail-of-dieudonne.html">Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s "A Nose for Money" and "The Travail of Dieudonne"</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p> <strong>by Corinne Knowles, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa<br/><br/>Francis Nyamnjoh is a versatile author, switching with apparent ease between scholarly and fictional writing. Having been entertained by his insightful teaching, I anticipated being taught by the entertaining <em>Nose for Money.</em> The novel traces the life journey of Prospere, a guileless Mimbolander who engages the reader from the start with the innocence of his internal life in the face of poverty, adversity and the seduction of money. The novel depicts the schizophrenia of an Africa aspiring to be rich, pretending to care about its people, corruptible by power and socialised into binary roles for men and women.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-a-nose-for-money-and-the-travail-of-dieudonne.html#more">Continue reading "Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s "A Nose for Money" and "The Travail of Dieudonne"" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">July 04, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-a-nose-for-money-and-the-travail-of-dieudonne.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/07/review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-a-nose-for-money-and-the-travail-of-dieudonne.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-66545743"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-woes-of-a-people-enslaved-by-alcohol-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html">The Woes of a People Enslaved by Alcohol: A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s "The Travail of Dieudonné"</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong style="COLOR: #800000">By George Esunge Fominyen</strong></p> <p><strong>When a social science researcher takes to fictional literature, it is hard to draw the line between reality and imagination. It is the case with Cameroon’s Francis Nyamnjoh; a sound academic  who <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e201156f605b55970c-pi" style="FLOAT: left"></a> knows how to tell a story simply and vividly. Apart from deliberate exaggerations by the author, any Cameroonian who has lived in the country for the past quarter of a century reading The Travail of Dieudonné, could easily find their space or that of a person they know in the colourful characters in the novel’s setting of Mimboland. </strong></p> <p><strong>What’s in a name? Mimbo in Cameroonian pidgin means a drink (from palm wine to champagne). So doped of this potent nectar, are the characters of <em>The Travail of Dieudonné</em> that, they readily accept their unfortunate fate. Theirs is a world of misery in which insultingly rich and corrupt officials reap of an undemocratic government in which poor governance thrives, while the masses abandon themselves to sexual perversity and self-pity with the help of alcohol. In many ways, it is Cameroon seen through a glass of beer and Cameroonians locked inside a bottle of lager.</strong></p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9966255575&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"></iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-woes-of-a-people-enslaved-by-alcohol-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html#more">Continue reading "The Woes of a People Enslaved by Alcohol: A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s "The Travail of Dieudonné"" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">May 08, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-woes-of-a-people-enslaved-by-alcohol-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-woes-of-a-people-enslaved-by-alcohol-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-66545645"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-travail-of-dieudonne-note-de-lecture-marie-ndiaye.html">THE TRAVAIL OF DIEUDONNE - Note de lecture Marie Ndiaye</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><em>The Travail of Dieudonné</em> pourrait passer pour le procès de Muzunguland et des Muzungulanders. La vie de Dieudonné sert de trame à cette histoire qui couvre plus d’une soixantaine d’années dans un coin d’Afrique (Warzone) riche de son sol mais appauvri par les choix économiques du colonisateur et par la convoitise des chefs de guerre et des puissances étrangères qui financent la guerre qui le ravage. </strong></p> <p><strong>Muzunguland a tout pris à Dieudonné : sa terre natale, son père, sa mère et ses sœurs, sa religion, son identité, son nom, sa fierté, sa masculinité, et enfin son épouse, Tsanga. Il se décrit lui-même comme suit : « <em> je ne suis rien », « nous sommes ce qu’ils veulent que nous soyons </em>».</strong> <br/> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-travail-of-dieudonne-note-de-lecture-marie-ndiaye.html#more">Continue reading "THE TRAVAIL OF DIEUDONNE - Note de lecture Marie Ndiaye" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">May 08, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-travail-of-dieudonne-note-de-lecture-marie-ndiaye.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/05/the-travail-of-dieudonne-note-de-lecture-marie-ndiaye.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-65039387"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/now-available-mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa.html">Now Available: Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <p><strong><span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS">Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman (eds.). <em>The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa.</em> Langaa Publishers / ASC, 2009. Available on amazon.com and ABC Books.</span></strong></p></blockquote> <p><strong>We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone’ is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa.</strong> <br/><br/></p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558532&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"></iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/now-available-mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa.html#more">Continue reading "Now Available: Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">April 03, 2009 </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/now-available-mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/now-available-mobile-phones-the-new-talking-drums-of-everyday-africa.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-interviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-65038071"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/extending-the-theoretical-cloth-to-make-room-for-african-experience-an-interview-with-francis-nyamnj.html">Extending the Theoretical Cloth to Make Room for African Experience: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="COLOR: #800000; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS">Herman Wasserman, University of Sheffield (Originally published in <em>Journalism Studies</em>, 10:2, 281 – 293)</span></strong></p> <p><strong>Francis Beng Nyamnjoh was born in Lakabum-Bum, Cameroon, and was educated in Yaounde and Leicester, where he obtained his PhD on a thesis titled Broadcasting <em>for Nation-building in Cameroon: Development and Constraints</em>, supervised by the late James Halloran at the famous Centre for Mass Communication Research.  Currently Head of Publications at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal, his research centres around questions of citizenship, globalization and the media and their intersections in Africa. His training in anthropology and sociology has</strong> <strong>inclined him to view media from the way it is used by people in their everyday lives, among conditions that often differ starkly from those in the Global North. Nyamnjoh’s anthropological interest in the everyday not only affords him a preference for and keen insight into popular forms of communication in Africa like cartooning, radio and gossip – or ‘radio trottoir’ – but also adds a vividness and sparkle to his writing, punctuated with perceptive observations and sparkling with humour. Alongside his academic publications, Nyamnjoh has also published several novels set in the fictional “Mimboland”, a mirror of his native Cameroon.</strong><br/></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/extending-the-theoretical-cloth-to-make-room-for-african-experience-an-interview-with-francis-nyamnj.html#more">Continue reading "Extending the Theoretical Cloth to Make Room for African Experience: An Interview with Francis Nyamnjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">April 03, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/interviews/">Interviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/extending-the-theoretical-cloth-to-make-room-for-african-experience-an-interview-with-francis-nyamnj.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/04/extending-the-theoretical-cloth-to-make-room-for-african-experience-an-interview-with-francis-nyamnj.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-62524609"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/a-review-of-the-travail-of-dieudonne-by-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">A Review of The Travail of Dieudonne by Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="COLOR: #c00000; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS">Reviewed by Sam-Nuvala Fonkem</span> </strong></p> <p><strong>The Travails of Dieudonne is Nyamnjoh's 5th novel, a remarkable achievement for an academic with an impressive collection of scholarly publications who has demonstrated versatility in his ability to stride across the literary world and the intelligentsia.</strong></p> <p><strong>The novel tells the story of Dieudonne, a houseboy who works for a white couple from Munzunguland Monsieur and Madamme Toubaby, who are resident in Beverly Hills, an exclusive neighbourhood of Nyamandem where, it was rumoured, the stolen wealth that had failed to make its way out of the country tended to be buried in extravagant luxuries that were simply out of this world. <br/></strong><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9966255575&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"></iframe> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/a-review-of-the-travail-of-dieudonne-by-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#more">Continue reading "A Review of The Travail of Dieudonne by Francis B. Nyamnjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">February 07, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/a-review-of-the-travail-of-dieudonne-by-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/a-review-of-the-travail-of-dieudonne-by-francis-b-nyamnjoh.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-62524421"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/researching-sexuality-in-africa-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Researching Sexuality in Africa (A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s Married But Available)</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By Omobolaji Olarinmoye (originally published in </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/53785" target="_blank"><strong>Pambazuka</strong></a><strong>)</strong></p> <p><strong>The book Married But Available is a unique one, unique in the sense that it is first an exposé – a mischievous and daring one for that matter – on the issue of sexuality (in Africa and the discourse guiding research on the issue) and more importantly (at least for the reviewer) a critique of the process of data collection for research in the social sciences. In other words, through an examination of sexuality in Mimboland (a fictional country based on the author’s home country of Cameroon, but which could easily represent any African country), the book addresses the issue of how to or not to undertake social research and examines the consequences, personal and public, of sloppy data collection.<br/></strong></p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558273&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"></iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/researching-sexuality-in-africa-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#more">Continue reading "Researching Sexuality in Africa (A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh’s Married But Available)" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">February 07, 2009 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/researching-sexuality-in-africa-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/02/researching-sexuality-in-africa-a-review-of-francis-nyamnjohs-married-but-available.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-62144246"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/01/note-de-lecture-sur-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html">Note de lecture sur : "The travail of Dieudonné" de Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Par Ngo Nlend Nadeige Laure</strong></p> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <p><strong>Francis B. Nyamnjoh. <em>The Travail of Dieudonné</em>. E.A.E.P. Nairobi, Kenya, 2008.</strong></p></blockquote> <p><strong>Dieu a donné dites vous ? Quelle ironie d’appeler d’un nom aussi faste un personnage dont l’existence dès le départ,  n’a été jonchée que d’amères déceptions et de cruelles injustices et dont les motifs de réjouissance ne proviennent que du faux sentiment  d’exaltation  que procure un esprit embrumé par l’alcool.</strong>  <br/></p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9966255575&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2009/01/note-de-lecture-sur-the-travail-of-dieudonn%C3%A9.html#more">Continue reading "Note de lecture sur : "The travail of Dieudonné" de Francis B. 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Mr. Nyamnjoh said that for America to choose as its citizen in chief such a skillful straddler of global identities could not help but transform the nation’s image, making it once again the screen upon which the hopes and ambitions of the world are projected. </strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05global.html?em" target="_blank"><strong>Click here for the rest of the article</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">November 05, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/in-the-news/">In the News</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/barack-obama---for-many-abroad-an-ideal-renewed.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/barack-obama---for-many-abroad-an-ideal-renewed.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-57927649"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/it-is-difficult-to-advise-a-leader-who-is-always-right.html">‘It is difficult to advise a leader who is always right’</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>An excerpt from Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/married-but-available" target="TY"><font color="#606420"><strong>Married But Available</strong></font></a></p> <p><strong>It is late into the night. Bobinga Iroko is unable to sleep. He is working on the editorial for the next issue of The Talking Drum. He has deliberately refused to carry the story on homosexuality. His priority remains the strike at the University of Mimbo, which, curiously, hasn’t attracted much coverage from the rest of the national press concentrated in Nyamandem and Sawang. He and The Talking Drum, the formidable odds against them notwithstanding, are determined to crusade along like a lone ranger, until victory day. They believe the sun must not be allowed to set on a good idea.</strong> </p><iframe frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558273&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"></iframe> <p></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/it-is-difficult-to-advise-a-leader-who-is-always-right.html#more">Continue reading "‘It is difficult to advise a leader who is always right’" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">November 02, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/it-is-difficult-to-advise-a-leader-who-is-always-right.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/it-is-difficult-to-advise-a-leader-who-is-always-right.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-57927247"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/%C3%A9-dif%C3%ADcil-aconselhar-um-l%C3%ADder-que-est%C3%A1-sempre-certo.html">É difícil aconselhar um líder que está sempre certo</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Um excerto do romance <em>Married but available</em></strong></p> <p><strong>Francis B. Nyamnjoh (2008-10-26) <br/><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2010535cd97da970b-pi" style="FLOAT: right"><img alt="Mba" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d83451ce8669e2010535cd97da970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2010535cd97da970b-800wi" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px" title="Mba"/></a> É tarde da noite. Bobinga Iroko é incapaz de dormir. Ele está trabalhando no editorial para o próxima edição de O tambor falante. Ele, deliberadamente, recusou a lançar a história sobre homossexualidade. Sua prioridade ainda é a greve na Universidade de Mimbo, a qual, curiosamente, não atraiu muita cobertura do resto da imprensa nacional concentrada em Nyamandem e Sawang. Ele e O tambor falante, apesar dos obstáculos formidáveis que se punham diante si, estão determinados a empreender uma cruzada tal como um vaqueiro solitário, até o dia da vitória. Eles acreditam que o pôr do sol não deve ofuscar uma boa idéia.</strong> <br/> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/%C3%A9-dif%C3%ADcil-aconselhar-um-l%C3%ADder-que-est%C3%A1-sempre-certo.html#more">Continue reading "É difícil aconselhar um líder que está sempre certo" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">November 02, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/%C3%A9-dif%C3%ADcil-aconselhar-um-l%C3%ADder-que-est%C3%A1-sempre-certo.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/11/%C3%A9-dif%C3%ADcil-aconselhar-um-l%C3%ADder-que-est%C3%A1-sempre-certo.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-in_the_news entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-57585237"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/serie-quelques-auteurs-camerounais-anglophones---francis-nyamjoh.html"> Serie: Quelques auteurs camerounais anglophones - Francis Nyamjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span lang="FR-CM" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><o:p>Écrit par Dibussi Tande and Joyce Ashutantang  (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.lejourquotidien.info/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=62" target="_blank">Le Jour)<br/><br/></a></o:p></span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="FR-CM" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><strong>Francis Nyamjoh est surtout connu comme chercheur, lui qui a publié de manière extensive sur la globalisation, la citoyenneté, les medias, la politique identitaire en Afrique, et a enseigné la sociologie, l’anthropologie et la communication dans des universités au Cameroun, au Botswana et en Afrique du sud. </strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="FR-CM" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><strong> <span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1225063757812_876"></span><span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1225063757812_587"></span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2010535ba70fe970b-pi" style="DISPLAY: inline"><img alt="Le+Jour+Nyamnjoh" border="0" class="at-xid-6a00d83451ce8669e2010535ba70fe970b " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ce8669e2010535ba70fe970b-800wi" title="Le+Jour+Nyamnjoh"/></a>  <br/><span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1225063797078_973"></span><span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1225063797078_564"></span><br/>Son livre <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Africa’s Media : Democracy and the Politics of Belonging </em>(2005) est l’un des ouvrages les plus cités sur la question des medias, de l’ethnicité et de la démocratisation au Cameroun.</strong></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%"><span lang="FR-CM" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/serie-quelques-auteurs-camerounais-anglophones---francis-nyamjoh.html#more">Continue reading " Serie: Quelques auteurs camerounais anglophones - Francis Nyamjoh" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 26, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/in-the-news/">In the News</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/serie-quelques-auteurs-camerounais-anglophones---francis-nyamjoh.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/serie-quelques-auteurs-camerounais-anglophones---francis-nyamjoh.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-57274063"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/a-review-of-fra.html">A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh's "The Travail of Dieudonne" </a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Originally published in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.eastandard.net/arts/InsidePage.php?id=1143997308&cid=291&" target="TT">The Standard</a> (Kenya)</strong></p> <p><strong><img title="Nyamnjohdieudonne" alt="Nyamnjohdieudonne" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/10/19/nyamnjohdieudonne.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> Title: <em>The Travail of Dieudonne</em><br/>Author: Francis B. Nyamnjoh<br/>Publisher: East African Educational Publishers (Peak Library)<br/>Year of Publication: 2008<br/>Reviewer: Tom Odhiambo</strong></p> <p><strong>The Travail of Dieudonne is a modern version of Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road. </strong></p> <p><strong>The main narrative in the novel is a biography of Dieudonne, a houseboy (that colonial term that refuses to go away) to an expatriate white couple teaching at a university in Mimboland.</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9966255575&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/a-review-of-fra.html#more">Continue reading "A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh's "The Travail of Dieudonne" " »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 19, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/a-review-of-fra.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/a-review-of-fra.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-african_affairs entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-56494579"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/eradicating-cul.html">Eradicating ‘Cultural Poverty’</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By Francis Nyamnjoh (Originally published on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/en/Dossiers/the_dutch_treatment/Commentary/Eradicating-cultural-poverty" target="YU">The Broker</a>)</strong></p> <p><strong>On reading through the IOB evaluation report I’m particularly struck by the emphasis on the sectoral approach to aid. It is as if normal life is lived in disconnected segments, and as though the successes scored in one sector cannot be cancelled out by the failure to address the needs in other sectors. Of course, it could always be argued that no single donor has resources enough to intervene simultaneously across a broad spectrum of sectors. But even so, this begs the question of what informs the choice of sectors and, even more important, what quantity and quality of research should inform the choice of sectors in order to guarantee successful outcomes.</strong> </p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/eradicating-cul.html#more">Continue reading "Eradicating ‘Cultural Poverty’" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 03, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/african_affairs/">African Affairs</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/eradicating-cul.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/eradicating-cul.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/eradicating-cul.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Africa" rel="tag">Africa</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Cultural%2BPoverty" rel="tag">Cultural Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Education" rel="tag">Education</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Foreign%2BAid" rel="tag">Foreign Aid</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/MDGs" rel="tag">MDGs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Poverty" rel="tag">Poverty</a> </p>  </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-my_books entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-56494151"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/knitting-our-so.html">“Knitting Our Social Worries in One Story”: A Review of Francis B.Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="color: #660000;">By Nixon K. Takor (Mphil Research Student), ASC- University of Leiden</span></strong></p> <p><strong>Is Nyamnjoh a sociologist or novelist? This enquiry among others has lingered in the minds of many who happen to stumble on any of his works. Track him along any genre of scholarship, leave him with any academic trade mark, he in my opinion is just a social pedagogue who has the uphill task to film society as it is, query it to expose the invisible, at times visible but unspeakable and unthinkable facets of human society. Nyamnjoh does this in different ways depending on where his imagination intuits him. He has a piquant parcel of words which he situates in context to attract the widest audience in the social environment he sets out to examine. In the novel <em>Souls Forgotten</em>, Nyamnjoh’s approach is ‘infotainment’ where he informs his audience about the social issues inherent in a mythic state society called Mimboland, and at the same time tries to capture and sustain their attention through literary entertainment .</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558125&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/knitting-our-so.html#more">Continue reading "“Knitting Our Social Worries in One Story”: A Review of Francis B.Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">October 03, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/my_books/">My Books</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/knitting-our-so.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/knitting-our-so.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/10/knitting-our-so.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Africa" rel="tag">Africa</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/African%2BLiterature" rel="tag">African Literature</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/book%2BReview" rel="tag">book Review</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Cameroon" rel="tag">Cameroon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Creative%2BWriting" rel="tag">Creative Writing</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Fiction" rel="tag">Fiction</a> </p>  </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-55533252"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/09/book-launch-in.html">Book Launch in London - The 1961 Cameroon Plebiscite - Choice or Betrayal</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="color: #660000;">Thursday 18th September 2008 from 6-8 pm at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.</span></strong></p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/12/booklaunch.jpg"><img class="image-full" title="Booklaunch" alt="Booklaunch" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/09/12/booklaunch.jpg" border="0"/></a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">September 15, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book_reviews/">Book Reviews</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/09/book-launch-in.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/09/book-launch-in.html#comments">Comments (1)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-55305264"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/09/a-concoction-of.html">A Concoction of Paradoxes – A Review of "The Disillusioned African" by Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By Kangsen Feka Wakai (Originally published in </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.palapalamagazine.com/" target="TY"><strong>Palapala Magazine</strong></a><strong>)</strong></p><blockquote dir="ltr"><p><strong><span style="color: #660000;">Francis B. Nyamnjoh. <em>The Disillusioned African.</em> Langaa Publishers, 2007. 264 pages</span></strong></p></blockquote><p><strong>Meet Charles, able-bodied African male of decent character with Herculean aspirations. Born sometime before independence swept through the continent; sometime before its echoing chants became the refrain of daily discourse; he is witness to the political and economic sameness of his world as it assumes different names but holds on to an ancient personality—tyranny. <br/><br/>An aspiring philosopher with the eye of an amateur anthropologist; Charles is a man of his time with a worldview molded by a ceaseless current of historical, socio-economic and political forces. It is the collision of these forces that compel him early on in his correspondence to make this confession:</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/09/a-concoction-of.html#more">Continue reading "A Concoction of Paradoxes – A Review of "The Disillusioned African" by Francis B. 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After having read <em>A Nose for Money</em> (2006) which came with lightning and thunder, Mind Searching entered my mind as a thought provoking but gentle breath of air. The central theme in the two novels is the perverse functioning of the political system and its effects on the man in the street, in Mind Searching explicitly set in Cameroon, in A Nose For Money in the fictional Mimboland, a mirror of Nyamnjoh's beloved and reviled Cameroon.</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9966254277&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=978200636X&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/08/book-review---n.html#more">Continue reading "Book Review - Nyamnjoh's "Mind Searching" and "A Nose for Money"" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">August 01, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/my_books/">My Books</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/08/book-review---n.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/08/book-review---n.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-47626214"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-sou.html">Book Review: Souls Forgotten by Francis B. Nyamnjoh.</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>By Alice Macdonald (Originally published in Pambazuka News)<br/><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/langaa-rpcig" target="GH">Langaa Publishers.</a> Bamenda, Cameroon. 2008. [ISBN: 9789956558124, 360 pages, Price: £14.95]</strong></p> <p><strong><img title="Soulsforgotten_1" alt="Soulsforgotten_1" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/27/soulsforgotten_1.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> The prolific Cameroonian writer and academic Francis Nyamnjoh continues to delight his readers with the publication of his latest novel <em>Souls Forgotten</em>. <em>Souls Forgotten</em> is a bitter indictment of the political and social situation of many African countries. The novel is set in the fictional land of ‘Mimboland’, a linguistically divided nation presided over by none other than President Longstay and suffering from endemic corruption, failing public services and wild nepotism whose similarities with the author’s native Cameroon are hard to miss.</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558125&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-sou.html#more">Continue reading "Book Review: Souls Forgotten by Francis B. 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Nyamnjoh & Richard Fonteh Akum (eds). <em>The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity</em>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.africanbookscollective.com/publishers/langaa-rpcig" target="YM">Langaa RPCIG</a>, Cameroon, 2008. 376 pages Paperback . £24.95. Available from <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.africanbookscollective.com/books/the-cameroon-gce-crisis" target="GH">African Books Collective</a>.</strong></p> <p> <strong>This book richly documents the battles fought by the Anglophone community in Cameroon to safeguard the General Certificate of Education (GCE), a symbol of their cherished colonial heritage from Britain, from attempts by agents of the Ministry of National Education to subvert it.</strong> <strong>These <img title="Thegcecrisis_2" alt="Thegcecrisis_2" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/20/thegcecrisis_2.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> battles opposed a mobilised and determined Anglophone civil society against numerous machinations by successive Francophone-dominated governments to destroy their much prided educational system in the name of 'national integration'. When Southern Cameroonians re-united with La République du Cameroun in 1961, they claimed that they were bringing into the union 'a fine</strong> <strong>education system' from which their Francophone compatriots could borrow. Instead, they found themselves battling for decades to save their way of life. Central to their concerns and survival as a community is an urgent need for cultural recognition and representation, of which an educational system free of corruption and trivialisation through politicisation is a key component.</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-cam.html#more">Continue reading "(Book Review) Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">March 20, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/my_books/">My Books</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-cam.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-cam.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>  <p class="entry-footer-tags"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/03/book-review-cam.html" title="Find related items at Technorati.">Technorati Tags</a>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Africa" rel="tag">Africa</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Anglophone%2BCameroon" rel="tag">Anglophone Cameroon</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Book%2BReview" rel="tag">Book Review</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Education" rel="tag">Education</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/History" rel="tag">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Minority%2BRights" rel="tag">Minority Rights</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://technorati.com/tag/Southern%2BCameroons" rel="tag">Southern Cameroons</a> </p>  </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-african_affairs entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-45473660"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/intellectual-an.html">Intellectual and Social Responsibility in Scholarship: Lessons from Professor Issa Shivji</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450oe_/http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/swflash.cab" id="Player_b09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f" width="600px" height="200px"> <param name="movie" value="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fsugarsthathea-20%2F8010%2Fb09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450oe_/http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fsugarsthathea-20%2F8010%2Fb09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f&Operation=GetDisplayTemplate" id="Player_b09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="Player_b09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f" allowscriptaccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="200px" width="600px"></embed></object> <noscript><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fsugarsthathea-20%2F8010%2Fb09d1ae9-db96-4895-89cc-a7669cda602f&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</a></noscript> <p><span style="color: #990033;"><strong>Francis B. Nyamnjoh reflects on the central role Issa Shivji has played in the development of African revolutionary scholarship.</strong></span></p> <p><strong><img title="Issa_g_shivji" alt="Issa_g_shivji" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/11/issa_g_shivji.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> It is 15th July 2006 at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Issa G. Shivji, at 60, is giving his valedictory lecture. Titled “Lawyers in Neoliberalism: Authority’s Professional Supplicants or Society’s Amateurish Conscience”, the lecture marks the end of a rich and distinguished 36 year career of selfless service that started as a tutorial assistant in May 1970 and was crowned with full professorship in July 1986. The lecture is on a theme that has been at the centre of Shivji’s humanity and scholarship since his student days in East Africa and the United Kingdom.</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/intellectual-an.html#more">Continue reading "Intellectual and Social Responsibility in Scholarship: Lessons from Professor Issa Shivji" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">February 11, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/african_affairs/">African Affairs</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/intellectual-an.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/intellectual-an.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="entry-category-book_reviews entry-author-jimbimedia entry-type-post entry" id="entry-45017888"> <h3 class="entry-header"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/the-disillusion.html">The Disillusioned African, by Francis B. Nyamnjoh</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong>Reviewed by </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.ekosso.com/" target="GH"><strong>Rosemary E. Ekosso</strong></a></p><blockquote dir="ltr"><p><strong>Francis B. Nyamnjoh. <em>The Disillusioned African.</em> Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Publishers, 2007. 264 pages. Available on </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/Disillusioned-African-Francis-Nyamnjoh/dp/9956558028/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/104-8546352-7659105?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191637632&sr=8-3" target="GH"><strong>Amazon.com</strong></a><strong> & </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://msupress.msu.edu/authorbio.php?authorID=2299" target="KL"><strong>Michigan State University Press</strong></a> </p></blockquote><p><strong><img title="Disillusioned_african_nyamnjoh" alt="Disillusioned_african_nyamnjoh" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/01/disillusioned_african_nyamnjoh.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> The relatively few people who read books published and/or written by Africans (when they can find them) might find that some of these works are famous for little other than their typesetting errors. I once got into trouble for telling a rather self-regarding young reporter that while I thought it was a good thing for a country to have a vibrant private press, its effect was somewhat marred by the fact that half the words in his newspaper were spelled backwards.</strong></p> <p><strong>Needless to say, we did not part on friendly terms. However, the reason I mentioned this is that Langaa, which last year published the book I am attempting to review (it was first published in 1995 by Nooremac press) seems to have escaped this. It is true that a meal is much more that the plate on which it is served, but one does rather like clean plates in these matters.</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558028&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/02/the-disillusion.html#more">Continue reading "The Disillusioned African, by Francis B. 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Nyamnjoh.</a></h3> <div class="entry-content"> <div class="entry-body"> <p><strong><span style="color: #990033;">Reviewed by Owen B. Sichone, Research and Publication Head, OSSREA, Addis Ababa (First Published in<em> OSSREA Bulletin</em> Vol.IV, No.3, October 2007, pp. 44-45)</span></strong></p><blockquote dir="ltr"><p><strong><em>A Nose for Money.</em> Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers Ltd. 2006. [ISBN: 9966-25-427-7; Price: Kshs: 350 US$: 5 Euros: 4]</strong></p></blockquote><p><strong>This is the story of the street savvy but (in school terms) poorly educated Prospere, a citizen of Mimboland (a sort of drunkard's haven) who manages through fate and drive and ambition (essential tools for the get-rich-or-die-trying entrepreneur) to change his life-station from beer delivery man to what Zambians would call a /prominent businessman/ with friends in high places.</strong></p> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/01/book-review-a-n.html#more">Continue reading "(Book Review) A Nose for Money by Francis B. 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Available on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/Souls-Forgotten-Francis-B-Nyamnjoh/dp/9956558125/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200884203&sr=8-1" target="KL">amazon.com</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=3411" target="GH">Michigan State University Press</a>.</strong></p></blockquote><p><img title="Nyamnjohforgotten_souls" alt="Nyamnjohforgotten_souls" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://fakoamerica.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/01/20/nyamnjohforgotten_souls.jpg" border="0" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px"/> <strong>One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life they've</strong> <strong>imagined is cut short by the University guillotine, Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life means - for himself and for Abehema - in a world where things are no longer as they used to be.</strong> </p> <p><strong>This novel is about coming of age and coming to terms in Mimboland. It is also about the fragility of life and the strength of the human spirit. The filth and screaming splendor of the city and the perplexed tranquility of the village are juxtaposed, as the tension and conviviality between tradition and modernity are lived and explored.</strong></p> <iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558125&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px"> </iframe> </div> <p class="entry-more-link"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/01/souls-forgotten.html#more">Continue reading ""Souls Forgotten"; Francis Nyamnjoh's Latest Novel" »</a> </p> </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <p class="entry-footer-info"> <span class="post-footers">January 20, 2008 in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/my_books/">My Books</a> </span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/01/souls-forgotten.html">Permalink</a> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="entry-comments" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2008/01/souls-forgotten.html#comments">Comments (0)</a> </p>   </div> </div> <div class="pager-bottom pager-entries pager content-nav"> <div class="pager-inner"> <span class="pager-right"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/page/2/"><span class="pager-label">Next</span> <span class="chevron">»</span></a> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="gamma"> <div id="gamma-inner" class="pkg">  <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Search this Site</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href=""></a><br/><form name="cse" id="searchbox_demo" action="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.google.com/cse"> <input type="hidden" name="cref" value=""/> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="utf-8"/> <input type="hidden" name="hl" value=""/> <input name="q" type="text" size="40"/> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search"/> </form> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450js_/http://www.google.com/cse/tools/onthefly?form=searchbox_demo&lang="></script></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="module-calendar module"> <h2 class="module-header">June 2011</h2> <div class="module-content"> <table summary="Monthly calendar with links to each day's posts"> <tr> <th>Sun</th> <th>Mon</th> <th>Tue</th> <th>Wed</th> <th>Thu</th> <th>Fri</th> <th>Sat</th> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>6</td> <td>7</td> <td>8</td> <td>9</td> <td>10</td> <td>11</td> </tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td>13</td> <td>14</td> <td>15</td> <td>16</td> <td>17</td> <td><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.nyamnjoh.com/2011/06/podcast-francis-nyamnjoh-talks-about-tabloid-journalism-in-south-africa.html">18</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td>20</td> <td>21</td> <td>22</td> <td>23</td> <td>24</td> <td>25</td> </tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td>27</td> <td>28</td> <td>29</td> <td>30</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="module-typelist module"> <h2 class="module-header">Nyamnjoh's Visitor Locator</h2> <div class="module-content"> <ul class="module-list"> <li class="module-list-item"><a href=""></a><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=http://www.nyamnjoh.com" id="clustrMapsLink"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://clustrmaps.com/counter/index2.php?url=http://www.nyamnjoh.com" border="1" alt="Locations of visitors to this page" onerror="this.onError=null; 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Nyamnjoh: A Nose for Money (Peak Library)" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a1.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8cb6b51970b-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9966254277/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: A Nose for Money (Peak Library)</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558125/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Souls Forgotten" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a5.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e201310f32498d970c-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558125/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Souls Forgotten</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558028/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis Nyamnjoh: The Disillusioned African" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a0.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e201310f324178970c-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558028/sugarsthathea-20">Francis Nyamnjoh: The Disillusioned African</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558273/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Married But Available" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a2.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8cb6022970b-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558273/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Married But Available</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558532/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt=": Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a7.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e201310f323e1f970c-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956558532/sugarsthathea-20">Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9966255575/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. Nyamnjoh: The Travail of Dieudonne (Peak Library)" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a6.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8cb5ef6970b-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9966255575/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: The Travail of Dieudonne (Peak Library)</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956616060/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Intimate Strangers" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a6.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e20120a8cb5e46970b-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9956616060/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Intimate Strangers</a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><br/><iframe src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450if_/http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=scrifromthede-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=9956558001&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842776762/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. Nyamnjoh : Insiders and Outsiders : Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (Africa in the New Millennium) " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a6.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e200e54fc97ade8833-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842776762/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh : Insiders and Outsiders : Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (Africa in the New Millennium) </a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006F9AHI/sugarsthathea-20">Francis B. Nyamnjoh: Mass media and democratisation in Cameroon </a><br/></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9004132953/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. 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Nyamnjoh: Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, V. 1) </a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184277283X/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Harri Englund & Francis Nyamnjoh (Eds.): Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Postcolonial Encounters) " src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450im_/http://a1.typepad.com/6a00d83451ce8669e200e54fea43e98834-75hi"/></a></div><p class="typelist-description"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/184277283X/sugarsthathea-20">Harri Englund & Francis Nyamnjoh (Eds.): Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Postcolonial Encounters) </a><br/></p></li> <li class="module-list-item"><div class="typelist-thumbnail"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120117110450/http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1842775839/sugarsthathea-20"><img alt="Francis B. 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