Voicing African Voices

Author

Godfrey B. Tangwa

Godfrey B. Tangwa

Godfrey B. Tangwa was born in Nso, North West Region of Cameroon. He attended secondary school at St. Joseph’s College Sasse, Buea, and successively educated at the Nigerian universities of Nsukka, Ife and Ibadan. He lectured at the University of Ife, from 1978-1986, and joined the University of Yaounde in 1987 as a Senior Lecturer. He is currently Professor at the Department of Philosophy which he headed from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of the International Association of Bioethics, has served on its Board of Directors from 1997 to 2003, and was Vice-President of the Association from 1999-2001. He is a member of several academic associations and of many scientific and ethics review committees around the world. He is also a prolific writer and his publications in academic journals, magazines and newspapers span a wide range of issues.

Essays & Opinion Journalism Politics Publishing and Writing

No Trifling Matter

by Godfrey B. Tangwa

Contributions of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon No Trifling Matter is a collection of controversial, critical weekly commentary on the…

African Studies Social Sciences

Elements of African Bioethics in a Western Frame

by Godfrey B. Tangwa

For millennia, Africans have lived on the African continent, in close contact with the diversities of nature: floral, faunal and human; and in so…

Essays & Opinion Politics

Road Companion to Democracy and Meritocracy

by Godfrey B. Tangwa

Further Essays from an African Perspective Each of the essays in this book is marked by a certain simplicity and clarity, a seriousness tinged…

Essays & Opinion Politics

I Spit on their Graves

by Godfrey B. Tangwa

Testimony Relevant to the Democratization Struggle in Cameroon The essays collected in this volume are, by the depth of their analysis and the breath…

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