Voicing African Voices

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History Religion Social Sciences West Africa

Empowered Without Power

Women and Leadership in the Basel Mission and Presbyterian Church in Cameroon This book examines women’s participation in the executive structures of the Basel…

History Political History & Theory Politics West Africa

Political Philosophies & Nation-Building in Cameroon

by Aseh Andrew

Grounds for Remaking the Postcolony This is a comprehensive text on the function of thought in the history and political sociology of Cameroon. The…

Anthropology Biography and Memoir History Personal Memoir Social Sciences West Africa

Compagnon! journal d’un noussi en guerre : 2002-2011

by Karel Arnaut and Marcus Mausiah Garvey

Compagnon ! Journal d’un noussi en guerre: 2002-2011 raconte la vie tant intime que professionnelle de Garvey dont une partie importante s’est déroulée pendant ‘les…

Economic History Economics History West Africa

From Head-Loading to the Iron Horse

by Komla Tsey

Railway Building in Colonial Ghana and the Origins of Tropical Development International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century…

History West Africa

Fulani Hegemony in Yola (Old Adamawa) 1809-1902

by Martin Z. Njeuma

Following the launching of jihad against Sarkin Gobir and other Hausa chiefs by Uthman dan Fodio, a renowned Muslim reformer, Yola became one of…

History Politics West Africa

The Cameroon Nigeria Border Dispute

by Hilary V. Lukong

Management and Resolution, 1981-2011 At independence, Cameroon and Nigeria adhered to the OAU principle of uti possedetis juris by inheriting the colonial administrative borders…

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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