Voicing African Voices

Author

Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, M.A., Ph.D., (Nui) Dip. Ed. (Oxon), born 19 November 1924 in Nso, North West Region of Cameroon, died 26 August 1986. He was a government minister and leading intellectual of Cameroon. A man of diverse abilities, Fonlon was characterized as the Cameroonian Socrates. He was a major promoter of bilingualism, as reflected in the journal Abbia: Cameroon Cultural Review that he founded in the early 1960s.

African Studies Social Sciences

The Task of Today and Other Seminal Essays

by Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

This book brings together six seminal essays by Professor Bernard Nsokika Fonlon, essays first published mostly in the 1960s in ABBIA (Cameroon Cultural Review)…

African Studies Anthropology Social Sciences

Challenge of Culture in Africa: From Restoration to Integration

by Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

This book was first published as a two-part essay in 1965 and 1967 in {ABBIA – Cameroon Cultural Review} – under the title “Idea…

African Studies Education and Teaching Social & Political Aspects Social Sciences

Genuine Intellectuals

by Bernard Nsokika Fonlon

Academic and Social Responsibilities of Universities in Africa This book, slim as it looks, took Bernard Nsokika Fonlon the best part of five laborious…

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