LIBROS DEL AUTOR: francis nyamnjoh

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  • The Gilded Cage Falls
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    Griddy Hunter-Bounty believes he is Le Baobab Indéracinable - The Unshakeable Baobab. He has built a trillion-dollar AI empire on the ruthless creed of ’Completeness’, reducing the universe to a machine of predictable parts and treating human connection as a systemic vulnerability. But Griddy’s fortress of solitude is a Black Box: a logic too dense to be audited and a personal ...
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    22,65 €

  • Navigating Hope
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    In a world grappling with despair and aspiration, Navigating Hope: Cultivating Inclusive Optimism in a Complex World challenges simplistic views of optimism. This groundbreaking book argues for an ’inclusive optimism’ - a dynamic, negotiated hope acknowledging human incompleteness and fostering relationality to mitigate the negative consequences of unequal encounters. Drawing o...
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    57,61 €

  • Yaa Yang
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    When the Fon of Yang vanishes, a shadow descends, leaving only whispers and fear. Ten-year-old Mtofalo becomes Yaa Yang, a fragile regent against the encroaching darkness. However, a ruthless usurper claims the throne, threatening to shatter her family and plunge the kingdom into darkness. Faced with despair or defiance, Yaa Yang must stand against the tyrant, a single flame ag...
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    33,64 €

  • Reimagining African Scholarship
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    This book reimagines African scholarship by challenging the enduring influence of Eurocentric paradigms and advocating for a decisive shift towards decolonised knowledge production. It introduces the concept of 'convivial scholarship,' an inclusive framework that embraces the inherent incompleteness of knowledge, the dynamism of mobility, and the power of collaboration across d...
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    34,08 €

  • Digital Uprising
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    In the dystopian nation of Mimboland, President Longstay’s tyrannical reign has crumbled, leaving a nation scarred but hopeful. His own daughter, Liberté, spearheaded the digital revolution that brought him down, leading the decentralised Liquid Army and an unlikely alliance of Lovebots and sentient nanobots. Now, Liberté grapples with the complexities of rebuilding a society f...
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    33,68 €

  • Echoes of Grace
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    Pearl, a young woman, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of class, culture, and identity. Guided by the resolute support of her mentor, Father Honeywell, she confronts societal expectations, overcomes personal setbacks, and makes difficult choices that shape her future. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of belonging, the importance o...
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    23,71 €

  • Incompleteness Mobility and Conviviality
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    Central to the Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 is an invitation to take incompleteness seriously in how we imagine, relate to and seek to understand a world in perpetual motion. Despite our instinct for and obsession with completeness, we are constantly reminded that the sooner one recognises and provides for incompleteness and the conviviality it inspires as the normal way of be...
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    41,33 €

  • Incompleteness
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of sup...
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    62,26 €

  • Decolonising the Academy
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge production that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games of absolute winners and losers are elitist and un-convivial. Academic discip...
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    30,41 €

  • The Rational Consumer
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations – persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols – and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene. It provides a substantiated and convincing explanation for what is happening today in Donald Trump...
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    36,69 €

  • Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    This book questions colonial and apartheid ideologies on being human and being African, ideologies that continue to shape how research is conceptualised, taught and practised in universities across Africa. Africans immersed in popular traditions of meaning-making are denied the right, by those who police the borders of knowledge, to think and represent their realities in accord...
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    51,98 €

  • Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa. Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state po...
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    37,87 €

  • C’est l’homme qui fait l’homme
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu’s precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid change and multiple responsibilities. Africans negotiate their social existence betwe...
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    48,37 €

  • Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real participatory democracy. So far, democracy has served mainly as a face powder, an empt...
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    71,12 €

  • The Travail of Dieudonne
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Dieudonnes life is spun from the threads of one of Africa’s grand moral dilemmas, in which personal responsibility is intertwined with the social catharsis occasioned by ambitions of dominance and ever diminishing circles. We encounter Dieudonne at the tail end of his service as ’houseboy’ to the Toubaabys, a patronising expatriate couple. In the company of a lively assortment ...
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    40,63 €

  • Souls Forgotten
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    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 vil...
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    53,18 €

  • The Convert
    Francis Nyamnjoh
    'This play tackles the theatrically attractive but ethically complex issue of Christian fundamentalism. Nyamnjoh, as a sociologist is well qualified to explore the social problems and psychological pressures which give rise to the born-again phenomenon, and the strong appeal of fundamentalist religion. The Convert, however is no schematic sociological tract. It deals with th...
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    40,39 €

  • The Disillusioned African
    Francis Nyamnjoh
    This humorous tale of the naïve and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh’s protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980...
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    40,26 €

  • Mind Searching
    Francis Nyamnjoh
    In Mind Searching Nyamnjoh has attempted to do something rather clever - to expose, through the attitudes, feelings and thoughts of one man and a very simple story, the hypocrisy and corruption of Cameroon society and humanity in general, often using understatement and irony in good effect. The commentary is unremittingly cynical and returns again and again to corruption, callo...
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    40,38 €

  • Stories from Abakwa
    Francis Nyamnjoh
    Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, as they are chased through an orchard for secretly harvesting avocadoes and mangoes. Smile as Mathias Chi’s overloaded canoe almost loses balance. Shiver as Roland runs through the dark streets and bleeding corridors of Mvog Mvog....
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    40,74 €

  • Africa’s Media
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh
    This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa within in the rapidly changing global media and shows how patterns of media ownership and state control have evolved and the huge difficulties under which most African media workers labor. The author also explores the whole questio...
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    61,40 €

  • A Nose for Money
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospère, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for the finer things in life. The novel presents a graphic picture of the frustrations engendered by a society that values wealth over love. ...
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    44,30 €