Francis B. Nyamnjoh

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Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Anthropology

#1626

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#2096

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Social Anthropology

#72

World Rank

#86

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Anthropology

Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Degrees

PhD Social Anthropology University of Cape Town

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According to Wikipedia, Francis B. Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He was recipient of the annual "ASU African Hero 2013" award from the African Students Union at Ohio University, the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature, and his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa won the 2018 ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph.

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Francis B. Nyamnjoh's Published Works

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Published Works

Africa's Media: Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (2005) (387)
‘Potted Plants in Greenhouses’: A Critical Reflection on the Resilience of Colonial Education in Africa (2012) (221)
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (2006) (191)
Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging (2000) (190)
The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon (1997) (179)
Elite associations and the politics of belonging in Cameroon (1998) (144)
Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (2003) (125)
CAMEROON: A COUNTRY UNITED BY ETHNIC AMBITION AND DIFFERENCE (1999) (121)
Incompleteness: Frontier Africa and the Currency of Conviviality (2017) (120)
Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa (2009) (114)
Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa (2012) (106)
Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Reflections Inspired by Studies of Xenophobia in Cameroon and South Africa (2010) (92)
Rights and the politics of recognition in Africa (2004) (85)
Fishing in Troubled Waters: Disquettes and Thiofs in Dakar (2005) (83)
Cameroonian bushfalling: Negotiation of identity and belonging in fiction and ethnography (2011) (82)
From Bounded to Flexible Citizenship: Lessons from Africa (2007) (79)
A Relevant Education for African Development: Some Epistemological Considerations (2005) (76)
Witchcraft as an Issue in the “Politics of Belonging”: Democratization and Urban Migrants' Involvement with the Home Village (1998) (75)
Whiteman Kontri and the enduring allure of modernity among Cameroonian youth (2002) (73)
Local Attitudes towards Citizenship and Foreigners in Botswana: An Appraisal of Recent Press Stories (2002) (68)
Identity and beyond : rethinking Africanity (2001) (60)
Images of Nyongo amongst Bamenda Grassfielders in Whiteman Kontri (2005) (58)
Construction and deconstruction : anglophones or autochtones? (2000) (48)
Entertaining Repression: Music and Politics in Postcolonial Cameroon (2005) (46)
Chieftaincy and the Negotiation of Might and Right in Botswana Democracy (2003) (40)
From Publish or Perish to Publish and Perish: What ‘Africa’s 100 Best Books’ Tell Us About Publishing Africa (2004) (38)
Globalization, boundaries, and livelihoods: perspectives on Africa (2003) (37)
Fiction and reality of mobility in Africa (2013) (36)
De- Westernizing media theory to make room for African experience (2010) (35)
"Ever-Diminishing Circles": The Paradoxes of Belonging in Botswana (2020) (29)
For many are called but few are chosen: globalisation and popular disenchantment in Africa (2004) (29)
African Universities in Crisis and the Promotion of a Democratic Culture: The Political Economy of Violence in African Educational Systems (2002) (27)
From Quibbles to Substance: A Response to Responses (2013) (26)
Books Received (1978) (24)
African cultural studies, cultural studies in Africa: How to make a useful difference (1999) (23)
Journalism in Africa: Modernity, Africanity (2015) (23)
Introduction: mobile communities and new social spaces in Africa (2009) (23)
Exorcising the demons within: xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa (2014) (23)
#RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016) (22)
Mobile Interconnections: Reinterpreting Distance, Relating and Difference In The Cameroonian Grassfields (2010) (20)
Beyond an evangelising public anthropology: science, theory and commitment (2015) (17)
Madams and Maids in Southern Africa: coping with uncertainties, and the art of mutual zombification (2005) (17)
Africans consuming hair, Africans consumed by hair (2014) (16)
Decolonizing the University in Africa (2019) (16)
Africa and the information superhighway: The need for mitigated euphoria (1999) (16)
Botswana at 50: democratic deficit, elite corruption and poverty in the midst of plenty (2017) (16)
Scholarship Production in Cameroon: Interrogating a Recession (2002) (15)
Media and civil society in Cameroon (1996) (15)
Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future (2011) (14)
Agro-industry and regionalism in the South West Province of Cameroon during the national economic and political crisis (1997) (14)
The domestication of hair and modernised consciousness in Cameroon: a critique in the context of globalisation (2002) (13)
Married But Available (2008) (13)
Africa’s Media: Democracy and Belonging (2009) (12)
Conviviality and negotiations with belonging in urban Africa (2014) (12)
The Disillusioned African (1995) (11)
Anglophone Secessionist Movements in Cameroon (2018) (11)
Side@Ways : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication in Africa (2013) (11)
Introduction to a Special Issue: African Universities in Crisis and the Promotion of a Democratic Culture: The Political Economy of Violence in African Educational Systems (2002) (10)
State of the Nation 2014: South Africa 1994-2014: a twenty-year review (2015) (10)
Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon (2011) (9)
Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of Cameroon (1995) (9)
OPEN ACCESS AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION PROCESSES: LESSONS FROM CODESRIA (2010) (9)
ICTs as Juju: African inspiration for understanding the compositeness of being human through digital technologies (2019) (9)
The Postcolonial Turn: Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa (2011) (8)
How to 'Kill' an underdeveloped press: Lessons from Cameroon (1990) (8)
The Nimbleness of Being Fulani (2013) (8)
Africa and the information superhighway: silent majorities in search of a footpath (1996) (8)
State of the nation: South Africa 2012-2013 (2015) (8)
"Ask and you shall be given" : Pentecostalism and the economic crisis in Cameroon (2000) (7)
Africa, the village belle: From crisis to opportunity (2013) (6)
Incompleteness and Conviviality:: A Reflection on International Research Collaboration from an African Perspective (2017) (6)
Globalization and the Cultural Economy: Africa (2008) (6)
'Our traditions are modern, our modernities traditional': chieftaincy and democracy in contemporary Cameroon and Botswana (2014) (6)
Amos Tutuola and the Elusiveness of Completeness (2015) (6)
Conviviality and the Boundaries of Citizenship in Urban Africa (2014) (6)
Intimate Strangers: Connecting Fiction and Ethnography (2012) (5)
Black pain matters: down with Rhodes (2015) (5)
Autochthony versus Citizenship - Variable Effects of Political Liberalization in Cameroon (2001) (4)
Postcolonial African Anthropologies (2018) (4)
Media and Belonging in Africa: Reflections on Exclusionary Articulation of Racial and Ethnic Identities in Cameroon and South Africa (2015) (4)
African Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies in Africa (1999) (4)
University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa (2012) (4)
The Postcolonial Turn:: An Introduction (2011) (4)
Autochthony, Democracy, and Citizenship in Africa (2001) (4)
‘Introduction : mobile margins and the dynamics of communication’ (2013) (3)
Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd : (2018) (3)
Covid19:: The Humbling and Humbled Virus (2020) (3)
Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters (2016) (3)
Ubuntuism and Africa: Actualised, Misappropriated, Endangered, and Reappraised (2020) (3)
Introduction:: Cannibalism as Food for Thought (2018) (3)
Religious Innovation and Competition in Contemporary African Christianity (2018) (2)
Broadcasting for nation-building in Cameroon: Development and constraints. (1989) (2)
International African Institute Elite Associations and the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon Author ( s ) : (2008) (2)
Stories from Abakwa (2007) (2)
Broadcasting in francophone Africa: Crusading for French culture? (1988) (2)
University crisis and student protest in Africa : the 2005-2006 university students' strike in Cameroon (2012) (2)
Modernity, Africanity : African journalism (2005) (2)
The African Economic Dilemma: The Case of Cameroon (1998) (2)
State of the nation South Africa 2016: who is in charge?: mandates, accountability and contestations in the South African state (2016) (1)
President Biya and the "Anglophone Problem" in Cameroon (2004) (1)
Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa. Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana (2015) (1)
Foreword: Press Freedom in a “Game” of Interests (2013) (1)
Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s (2011) (1)
Rethinking Citizenship in 21st Century Africa: (2019) (1)
Cultures, Conflict and Globalization: Africa (2007) (1)
Briefings: Africa in 2015: Interrogating Barbie Democracy, Seeking Alternatives (2004) (1)
Citizenship, incompleteness and mobility (2022) (1)
Not Studying White, Up or Down, but Around Southern Africa: A Response to (2013) (1)
ICTs and the Reconfiguration of 'Marginality' in Langa Township: A Study of Migration and Belonging (2014) (1)
Mobilities, ICTs and marginality in Africa: comparative perspectives (2016) (1)
Introduction:: Christianity and Social Change in Contemporary Africa (2020) (1)
CODESRIA: 30 years of Scholarly Publishing (2007) (1)
Epilogue Theorizing Agency In And On Africa: The Questions Are Key (2007) (1)
Review Articles (2001) (1)
Rethinking African Development: Beyond Impasse, Towards Alternatives (2007) (1)
Dying by degree (2022) (0)
The Postcolonial Turn (2011) (0)
Cell phones in social transformation in Africa: insights from ongoing research in some African countries (2012) (0)
Uncontaining Mobility: Lessons from COVID-19: 2nd AMMODI (African Migration, Mobility and Displacement) Annual Keynote Lecture, 30 June 2022 (2022) (0)
bal CONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION : ANGLOPHONES OR AUTOCHTONES ? — ~ (2006) (0)
Introduction:: Flexible Citizenship in the 21st Century Africa (2019) (0)
The Material Subject: rethinking bodies and objects in motion ed. by Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny (review) (2022) (0)
Introduction:: Being and Becoming African: Insights from Chinua Achebe’s and Related Usage of Proverbs (2021) (0)
The State of the Media in Southern Africa 2000: Botswana (2000) (0)
Political change and regionalism in Cameroon (2002) (0)
Keynote Address: Mobility, Globalisation, and the Policing of Citizenship and Belonging in the Twenty-First Century (2021) (0)
CODESRIA: 30years of scholarly publishing (2006) (0)
Mobile Africa Revisited: A comparative study of the relations between new communication technologies and new social spaces (Chad, Mali, Cameroon, Angola, Tanzania): Case studies Cameroon and Chad (2008) (0)
Editorial Board (2010) (0)
Amos Tutuola as a quest hero for endogenous Africa: actively anglicising the Yoruba language and yorubanising the English language (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2009) (0)
Response by the author (2021) (0)
The Rational Consumer: Bad for Business and Politics (2018) (0)
EKEMA J. MANGA, The African Economic Dilemma : Ekema J. Manga , The African Economic Dilemma: the case of Cameroon . Lanham MD: University Press of America, 1998, 280 pp., $46.00, ISBN 0 7618 0991 0. (2000) (0)
Editorial Introduction — Migration and (In)Equality in the Global South (2022) (0)
Urmila Mohan and Laurence Douny (eds), The Material Subject: rethinking bodies and objects in motion. Abingdon and New York NY: Routledge (hb £90 – 978 1 350 07736 2). 2021, xxi + 246 pp (2022) (0)
Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: (2021) (0)
Piet Konings, Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of Cameroon . African Studies Centre, Leiden, Research Series 5/1995, Aldershot: Avebury, 1996, 173 pp., £22.50, ISBN 1 85972 355 1. (1999) (0)
Citizenship in Motion: South African and Japanese scholars in conversation (2019) (0)
A Debate on Anthropology in Africa (2013) (0)
Epilogue: Opening up the Research Design in and on Africa:: ‘To Souls Forgotten’ (2011) (0)
Itaru Ohta: (2020) (0)
coping with uncertainties, and the art of mutual zombif ication (2005) (0)
OF SKIN WHITENERS AND HERITAGE TOURISM (2014) (0)
Tradition, , Modernity and Ways of Knowing Artwell Nhemachena The Disillusioned African (1995/2007, ISBN: 978-9956-558-02-5) Souls Forgotten (2008, ISBN: 978-9956558124) Married But Available (2009, ISBN: 978-9956558278) (2009) (0)
A giant has moved on: Archie Mafeje (1936-2007) (2008) (0)
The Incompleteness of the African Subject (2018) (0)

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University of Cape Town

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