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  • 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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    59,22 €

  • 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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    28,94 €

  • 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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    34,91 €

  • 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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    49,44 €

  • #RhodesMustFall. Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist. Through everyday interactions and experiences of university students and professors, it explores the question of race in a context still plagued by remnants of apartheid, inequality and...
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    46,76 €

  • 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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    36,03 €

  • 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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    46,02 €

  • 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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    67,69 €

  • Homeless Waters
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they didn’t miss the father they hadn’t known. Later on, in the alluvial valleys of Bonfuma and the lands beyond, Ngoma experiences the thrills and challenges of schooling and being schooled. Adolescents will appreciate his stories and ...
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    38,65 €

  • Intimate Strangers
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fiancé refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Botto...
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    42,78 €

  • Married But Available
    Francis B. Nyamnjoh / Francis BNyamnjoh
    Married But Available ventures into a theme about which people say as much as they withhold. It explores intersections between sex, money and power, challenging orthodoxies, revealing complexities and providing insights into the politics and economics of relationships. During six months of fieldwork in Mimboland, Lilly Loveless, a Muzungulander doctoral student in Social Geogra...
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    50,06 €

  • 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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    38,66 €

  • 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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    50,58 €

  • 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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    42,16 €