Voicing African Voices

Author

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

Mary Njeri Kinyanjui earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and her master’s from Kenyatta University, Kenya. She taught at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya. She has benefited from numerous awards and fellowships and been a guest scholar in development studies at research centres and institutes across Africa and Europe. She has also been a member of the Board of Governors of several secondary schools in Kenya. She was a Visiting Research Associate at Five College Women’s Study Research Center, based at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts in the USA, where she facilitated a seminar on Topologies of self-reliance and solidarity in African communities. She is author of the Langaa book Coffee Time, which is based on the experience of her family and is practically a treatise on development. Other publications include: Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa: From the Margins to the Centre (2014); African Markets and the Utu-Ubuntu Business Model (2019); and The Sweet Sobs Response of Women to Anthropain (2019).

African Studies Anthologies & Collections Literature Social Sciences

Covid Stories from East Africa and Beyond

by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, Roopal Thaker and Kathryn Toure

Lived Experiences and Forward-Looking Reflections The coronavirus has rattled humanity, tested resolve and determination, and redefined normalcy. This compelling collection of 29 short stories…

Poverty Social Sciences Sociology

Coffee Time

by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui

In Coffee Time, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui uses her childhood experiences in a rural coffee farm to show the struggles that farmers go through to…

The mission of Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group (Langaa RPCIG) is to contribute to the cultural development and renaissance of Africa. This is achieved by conducting research, providing training in research and writing, and publishing and promoting African scholarship and creative writing. Langaa, not set up for monetary profit-making, is supported by founding members and other contributors, financial grants and efforts of volunteers. Langaa is physically located in Bamenda and Buea (Cameroon), although its members and volunteers operate from different parts of the world. So far, Langaa has published over 500 titles, mainly on Cameroon, but also on other African countries like Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Outstanding scholars and ordinary people familiar with the Cameroonian and African context provide editorial guidance. Each manuscript is systematically reviewed before a publication decision. Peer reviews, reader reports, and editorial changes are stored as evidence of the rigour of Langaa ’s processes.

Billan Omar, Doctoral Research Fellow at HUMA, University of Cape Town on Ringtone Stories: Voices from Bamenda’s Mobile Generation
Vito Laterza is Associate Professor in Global Development at the University of Agder, Norway, and a 2024-2025 Visiting Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Theologian, leading academic, Vice Chancellor and Principal, Tshwane University of Technology. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Achirri Ismael, (PhD) Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism
Viviane Koua, (PhD) Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University, Auburn AL. USA on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism