Voicing African Voices

Social Sciences

Combats pour le Sens : Un Itineraire Africain

Dans ce livre, Paulin J. Hountondji, connu du public pour sa critique percutante de l’ethnophilosophie, retrace la genèse et l’évolution de sa réflexion. Il…

Media & Communication Studies Social Sciences

Virtual Activism on Cameroon

by Isaac N. Endeley

The CamNet Files During the 1990s, as the Internet in general and e-mail in particular grew in popularity as a means of communication, a…

Anthropology Media & Communication Studies Social Sciences

L’ivoirité mouvementée

by Aghi Bahi

Jeunes, médias et politique en Côte d’Ivoire Affirmation identitaire développée au fil des décennies coloniales et postcoloniales, l’ivoirité, qui a fait l’objet d’âpres débats,…

Anthropology ICTs Science, Technology, Medecine Social Sciences

Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

by Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman

Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a ‘better elsewhere’, marginality means…

Central Africa Gender & Women's Studies History Social Sciences

Petitioning for our Rights, Fighting for our Nation

by Meredith Terretta

The History of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 Thousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Bourgeon Divin

by Philip Mutaka

Témoignages Ce livre dévoile un matériel ethnographique innovant, notamment, des événements dans lesquels des individus font face au super naturel, tel la réaction à…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Divine Bud

by Philip Mutaka

Testimonies of God’s intervention This book presents innovative material on ethnography; more specifically, it exposes events where African individuals deal with the supernatural –…

Anthropology Art, Photography, Film and Music Music Social Sciences

DISCOnnections: Popular Music Audiences in Freetown, Sierra Leone

by Michael Stasik

This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown’s past and present. Blending anthropological…

Central Africa History Religion Social Sciences

The Residue of the Western Missionary in the Southern Cameroons

by Peter Acho Awoh

The Christian Village: A Sad Tale of Strife and Dissension This book is the fascinating study of Christian enclaves in the Southern Cameroons of…

Anthropology Social Sciences

Witchcraft in Post-colonial Africa

by Khaukanani Mavhungu

Beliefs, techniques and containment strategies This is a comparative ethnographic study of witchcraft and associated violence between the kingdoms of Kom and Venda in…

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