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A Wealth of Wisdom
A Reference Collection of African Proverbs
Fochang B.
Among the Igbo, Chinua Achebe reminds us, proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten. This is true of the Igbo as it is for most peoples across the African continent. In this revised and enlarged volume, Rev. Babila Fochang serves us with …
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Beads of memory
Martin Jumbam
Martin Jumbam was born and raised in Nkar in the Diocese of Kumbo in the northern grassland region of English-speaking Cameroon. He is a translator and a conference interpreter by training, and a freelance journalist. He served for several years on …
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Beautiful Fire
Joyce Ash
Dr. Joyce Ash is a poet, actress, creative writer and Associate Professor of English at the University of Hartford, Connecticut. She has appeared as an invited poet in many countries around the world, including England, Germany, Nicaragua, Greece, C…
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Because of my mouse
A play
John Fokwang
John Koyela Fokwang was born in Bali Nyonga in the then British Southern Cameroons. He attended the Native Authority School in Bali where he later taught as a Probationary Teacher (1963-1965). John Fokwang continued his professional training and enr…
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Being and becoming
Gender, culture and shifting identity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Chinyere Ukpokolo
This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on t…
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Boundless
Kefen Budji
When strangers invade her village in 1910, young princess Samarah's knowledge of English unwittingly contributes to her capture. Forced into a life of servitude on a plantation far removed from her homeland, Samarah struggles with losing the life an…
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Changing Regimes and Educational Development in Cameroon
Mathew B. Gwanfogbe
Dr. Mathew B. Gwanfogbe is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the Bamenda University of Science and Technology. He was previously the Director-delegate of the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS Annex), Bambili. He is a member of the Cameroon Historical Soc…
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Choking
Poems
Michael M. Kengnjoh
Michael M. Kengnjoh, SD, PhD is an educationist, psychologist, and leader with a strong interest in these fields. He has served in many roles, including Chancellor of the Diocese of Buea, Manager of Divine Mercy Radio and Television, Catholic Educat…
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Crossroads of dreams
A poetry anthology
Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla, MD Mbutoh
Crossroads of Dreams is a steamy potpourri of poetry by Franklin Agogho, Jude A. Fonchenalla and M.D. Mbutoh which redefine representations of African youth through the prisms of politics, emigration and the enduring threat of underdevelopment. How …
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Cultivating moral citizenship
An ethnography of young people’s associations, gender, and social adulthood in the Cameroon grasslands
Jude Fokwang
In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to posi…
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Dance of the Kangaroos
M.D. Mbutoh
M.D. Mbutoh is an award-winning poet from the North West Region of Cameroon. He holds a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Yaounde. He is currently pursuing a Master's in International Communication and Public Actions at th…
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Democratic Governance and Political Participation in Nigeria 1999 - 2014
Kehinde M.,
Omotoso F.
The year 1999 was a watershed in the history of Nigeria as it witnessed the peaceful transfer of power from the military to the political class. Given Nigeria's tumultuous history of successive military interventions, this development was the first …
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Desperate journeys
Pepertua K. Nkamanyang
Dr. Pepertua K. Nkamanyang Lola is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Head of Service for Extra-African Cooperation at the University of Bamenda, Cameroon
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Fons of “traditional Bamenda” and partisan politics in contemporary Cameroon
Reconstructing identity and cultural meaning
Tatah Mbuy
In Fons of Traditional Bamenda, Tatah Mbuy critically examines the predicament of traditional leaders in the Cameroon Grasslands in the wake of the civil unrest that has regrettably evolved into armed conflict in the territories that constituted the…
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From the highlands of Nkar to the world
A memoir
Martin Jumbam
In his memoir, From the Highlands of Nkar to the World, Martin Jumbam sets out on an adventure which leads him from the cosy domesticity of life in his village of Nkar, under the patronage of his parents, fervently-strict Catholic Christians, to wha…
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General pedagogy
A guide to effective teaching
Martha M. A. Zama, Margaret Nalova Endeley
General Pedagogy: A Guide to Effective Teaching demystifies the scientific art of teaching by providing facts, principles and concrete examples in real life situations such that neither the novice teacher who peruses it will stutter in front of stud…
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Habiba
A novel
Razinat T. Mohammed
Razinat T. Mohammed is an award-winning Nigerian author of A Love like a Woman’s and other Stories (2006). She writes about the sociocultural plight and challenges that bedevil impoverished northern Nigerian families, with particular emphasis on the…
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History and its true colors
Poems
Tanure Ojaide
A renowned poet, Tanure Ojaide has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), twice the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1…
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In search of harmony. A history of Bali Nyonga
Fondi Ndifontah Nyamndi
In Search of Harmony traces the migration of Bali Nyonga, its transformation from a raiding band into a settled community in the Bamenda Grassfields, its development from a dispirited splinter of the broken Chamba alliance into a structured kingdom …
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Just a bend
Ekpe Inyang
Ekpe Inyang is the 2014 winner of the Eko Prize for Emerging Anglophone Writers in the poetry category, Ekpe Inyang holds an MSc. in Advanced Professional Studies (Environmental Studies) from the University of Strathclyde, UK. He spent several years…
Spears Media Press
Denver: Cameroon,
2020,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781942876595
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Spears Media Press
Denver: Cameroon,
2020,
Paperback,
192 p,
(In English)
ISBN 9781942876595
Language, literature, and the dynamics of conflict
Eunice Ngongkum, Hans M. Fonka
Informed by a global space animated by various conflicts, this book brings a refreshing perspective on how the disciplines of literature and language engage this phenomenon. In its shift from a purely political interrogation of conflict, the volume …
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Letter from America
Memoir of an adopted child
Gil Ndi-Shang
Inspired by Alistair Cooke’s masterpiece “Letter from America” (1934-2004) that depicted the transformation of British culture in the United States of America, Ndi-Shang’s text redefines ‘America’, focusing on the melting pot engendered by African, …
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Narrow escapes
A poetic diary of the coronavirus pandemic
Tanure Ojaide
Narrow Escapes: A Poetic Diary of the Coronavirus Pandemic is a poetic journey that is at once emotional and spiritual. In over 200 distinct poems, the reader follows the poet’s musing from the pandemic’s outbreak to the onset of the second wave. Th…
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Protecting minority language rights
George Ngwane
In this succinct, well-framed work, noted activist and scholar George Ngwane tackles the issue of minority language rights with alacrity. The book will offer those interested in linguistic rights insights into the dilemmas facing African countries, …
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Renewing the promise
A treatise on the refoundation of the Cameroon nation
Julius Fondong
In this very riveting and well-researched essay, Julius Fondong ruminates on the continued relevance of the promises and principles that underpinned the creation of the post-colonial Cameroon nation-state, sixty years after unification in 1961. Rene…
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