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  • 1
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    African Potentials (2022)
    Oxford : Langaa RPCIG
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    ISBN: 9789956552542
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (334 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.096
    Keywords: Africa--Economic conditions ; Africa--Social conditions ; Economic history ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This book challenges colonial and age-old Western academic views that have dominated and marginalised African indigenous knowledge system.
    Abstract: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Notes on Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction. African Potentials: Bricolage, Incompleteness and Lifeness -- 1. African Potentials Project -- 2. Trajectory of African Forum -- 3. Key Perspectives of African Potentials -- 4. Reflexivity/Constancy or Autonomous Self/Public Solidarity -- 5. Creativity and Resistance in Everyday Lifeness -- 6. Palaver and Another Mode of Democracy -- 7. Palaver and Everyday Lifeworld -- 8. Publication of a Seven-Volume Series, 'African Potentials: Convivial Perspectives for the Future of Humanity' -- 9. Structure of This Volume -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part 1 - How African Society Can Be Decolonised and Liberated -- Chapter 1. DECOLONIALITY. Who is Afraid of Epistemic Relativism?Disentangling African Philosophy from the 'Universalist' Entrapment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Africa Philosophy, Inception and Methodological Crisis -- 3. Purging African Philosophy of Colonial Influence: A Meta-Methodological Crisis -- 4. Dealing with the Fear of Epistemic Relativism -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2. UNIVERSALS. Activating Latent Cultural Potentials and Social Prescriptions: The Potential for Emancipatory Political Thought in African Popular Cultures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Amilcar Cabral: Popular Culture and the Re-appropriation of History through Politics -- 3. Wamba-dia-Wamba: Collective Knowledge and the Prescriptive Quality of Proverbs.
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    #RhodesMustFall : Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016)
    [Bamenda, Cameroon] (CM) : Langaa RPCIG | Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
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    ISBN: 9956550701 , 9789956550708
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (310 pages)
    DDC: 968
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    LB 53585
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    RS 60798
    Keywords: Rassismus ; Postkolonialismus ; Hochschulbildung ; Studentenbewegung ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Apartheid ; Südafrika
    Abstract: #RhodesMustFall. Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa by Francis Nyamnjoh was awarded the 2018 Fage & Oliver Prize. This book on rights, entitlements and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa shows how the playing field has not been as levelled as presumed by some and how racism and its benefits persist. Through everyday interactions and experiences of university students and professors, it explores the question of race in a context still plagued by remnants of apartheid, inequality and perceptions of inferiority and inadequacy among the majority black population. In education, black voices and concerns go largely unheard, as circles of privilege are continually regenerated and added onto a layered and deep history of cultivation of black pain. These issues are examined against the backdrop of organised student protests sweeping through the country's universities with a renewed clamour for transformation around a rallying cry of 'Black Lives Matter'. The nuanced complexity of this insightful analysis of the Rhodes Must Fall movement elicits compelling questions about the attractions and dangers of exclusionary articulations of belonging. What could a grand imperialist like the stripling Uitlander or foreigner of yesteryear, Sir Cecil John Rhodes, possibly have in common with the present-day nimble-footed makwerekwere from Africa north of the Limpopo? The answer, Nyamnjoh suggests, is to be found in how human mobility relentlessly tests the boundaries of citizenship.
    URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-600851
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    Eating and Being Eaten : Cannibalism as Food for Thought (2018)
    [Bamenda, Cameroon] (CM) : Langaa RPCIG | Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
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    ISBN: 9956550973 , 9789956550975
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
    DDC: 394
    Abstract: This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires. It argues that cannibalism is practised by all and sundry. In love or in hate, fear or fascination, purposefulness or indifference, individuals, cultures and societies are actively cannibalising and being cannibalised. The underlying message of: Own up to your own cannibalism! is convincingly argued and richly substantiated. The book brilliantly and controversially puts cannibalism at the heart of the self-assured biomedicine, globalising consumerism and voyeuristic social media. It unveils a vast number of prejudices, blind spots and shameful othering. It calls on the reader to consider a morality and an ethics that are carefully negotiated with required sensibility and sensitivity to the fact that no one and no people have the monopoly of cannibalisation and of creative improvisation in the game of cannibalism. The productive, transformative and (re)inventive understanding of cannibalism argued in the book should bring to the fore one of the most vital aspects of what it means to be human in a dynamic world of myriad interconnections and enchantments. To nourish and cherish such a productive form of cannibalism requires not only a compassionate generosity to let in and accommodate the stranger knocking at the door, but also, and more importantly, a deliberate effort to reach in, identify, contemplate, understand, embrace and become intimate with the stranger within us, individuals and societies alike.
    URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-601005
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    Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa : Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana (2015)
    [Bamenda, Cameroon] (CM) : Langaa RPCIG | Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
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    ISBN: 9956762792 , 9789956762798
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (84 pages)
    DDC: 306.2096
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    Keywords: Häuptling ; Demokratie ; Kamerun ; Botswana
    Abstract: Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the home village where control over land and labour often require both financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy remains central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability in line with the expectations of Africans as individual 'citizens' and also as 'subjects' of various cultural communities. This book uses Cameroon and Botswana as case studies, to argue that the rigidity and prescriptiveness of modernist partial theories have left a major gap in scholarship on chiefs and chieftaincy in Africa. It stresses that studies of domesticated agency in Africa are sorely needed to capture the creative ongoing processes and to avoid overemphasising structures and essentialist perceptions on chieftaincy and the cultural communities that claim and are claimed by it.
    URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-603955
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    Being and Becoming African As a Permanent Work in Progress : Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs (2021)
    Oxford : Langaa RPCIG
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    ISBN: 9789956551958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (512 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 398.9
    Keywords: Proverbs, African ; Proverbs, Igbo ; Achebe, Chinua ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 - Introduction. Being and Becoming African: Insights from Chinua Achebe's and Related Usage of Proverbs -- The Many Faces and Guises of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Contribution in the Storytelling of Being and Becoming African -- Chinua Achebe's Artistic Iconoclasm -- Synopsis of Chapters -- Endnotes -- References -- Part I. Proverbial Cultures: Being, Becoming and Belonging in African Proverbs -- Chapter 2 - Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe's Proverbs -- Introduction -- Proverbs in Motion and their Mobilisation by Chinua Achebe -- Proverbs as Palm-Oil -- Proverbing Humility and Modesty in Leadership -- Gluing Change and Continuity with Proverbs -- Telling the Untold Stories of the Hunt: A Proverbial Achebe Legacy -- Achebe the Dancing Mask Humbles Death -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 3 - The Community, Belonging and Agency in Akan Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Sociality of the Person in Akan Proverbs -- Belonging as Membership of a Kin Group -- The Personhood as Belonging to a Community -- Individual Agency and the Community -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 4 - The Place of Proverbs amongst the Otukpo of North Central Nigeria -- Introduction -- Who are the Otukpo People? -- Other Versions of Proverbs in Otukpo: Meanings and Applications -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5 - An Encounter with a Proverb-Hunter and the Beingness of Igbo Proverbs -- Introduction -- The Forest of Proverbs -- Proverbs and the Art of Conversation -- The Art of Proverbialising and the Family -- The Dawn of Ilulu Igbo n'ime Igbo: Textbook of Igbo Proverbs -- Igbo Proverbs: New Channels, Different Contexts -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Works Cited.
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    Eating and Being Eaten : Cannibalism As Food for Thought (2018)
    Oxford : Langaa RPCIG
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    ISBN: 9789956550739
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 pages)
    Parallel Title: Print version Nyamnjoh, B Eating and Being Eaten : Cannibalism As Food for Thought
    DDC: 394.9
    Keywords: Cannibalism ; Consumption (Economics) ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- About the Authors -- Contents -- Foreword -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Cannibalism as Food for Thought -- Introduction -- There is more meat to cannibalism than meets the eye -- Compassionate Cannibalism -- Being Human as Eating and Being Eaten -- Humans and Animals as Two Sides of the Same Cannibal Feast -- Cannibalism in Camouflage -- Contributions to this Volume: an Overview -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 2 - The Violence of Translating People into Cannibals: The Man-Eating Anthropologists -- The violence of translating people into cannibals -- Anthropology, cannibalism and colonial violence -- The problematic notion of cannibalism -- The ethnography of cannibalism: representing the other -- Ethnography and the violence of making a text from data -- Cannibalism: beyond the modern world and towards a new anthropology -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 3 - Incorporated or Cannibalised by Posthuman Others? Sanctions and Witchcraft in Contemporary Zimbabwe -- Introduction -- The Capture and Cannibalisation of Zimbabwe: on the Imperial Leviathan -- Luring and Incorporating 'Delicious' Africa in a Cannibalistic World: Zimbabwe and Sanctions -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 - 'The Body of Christ? Amen': Christianity and the Cannibalisation of the Bamenda Grassfielders (Cameroon) -- Introduction -- Eating up Traditional Rulers: the Projection and Delegitimisation Argument -- Ex-soldiers or 'Fernando Po Repartees' and the Licence to Consume Grassfielders -- The Ex-servicemen and Cannibalism -- Consuming and being Consumed: 'Love' and 'Sex' in the Church Compounds -- Domestication of Western Christianity by the Bamenda Grassfielders -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 5 - Researching Cannibalising Obligations in Post-apartheid South Africa -- Introduction
    Abstract: Background on Black Middle Class in South Africa -- Cannibalising Black Middle Class -- Cannibalising Obligations -- Media on Cannibalising Black Tax -- Citizenship and Cannibalism -- Cannibalising Systemic Obligations -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 6 - Lehu la gago le ya mphidisha. 'Your death nourishes me' -- The investment of 'life' -- The saga of human ashes -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 7 - Rainbow Nation of the Flesh -- The Kitchen -- Appetisers -- Main Course -- Dessert -- Gluttony -- In Lieu of a Conclusion: After Dinner Mint, Coffee & Brandy -- References -- Chapter 8 - My African Heart: The Obscure Gourmandise of an Enlightened Man -- Introduction -- The Pale Tale of Extraction -- The Path of the Dying Heart -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- Chapter 9 - Consumerisation of cannibalism in contemporary Japanese society -- Introduction -- Exploiting the suicidal -- Fantasising reality and realising the fantasy -- Fetish to rawness -- Consumerisation of cannibalism -- Concluding remarks -- Endnotes -- References -- INDEX -- Back cover
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  • 7
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    Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s (2011)
    [Bamenda, Cameroon] (CM) : Langaa RPCIG | Frankfurt am Main : Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
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    ISBN: 9956717819 , 9789956717811
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (208 pages)
    DDC: 302.23096711
    Keywords: Geschichte 1990-1995 ; Demokratisierung ; Massenmedien ; Kamerun
    Abstract: In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real participatory democracy. So far, democracy has served mainly as a face powder, an empty concept or slogan devoid of concrete meaning used to justify reactionary propaganda by the ruling party and its acolytes on the one hand, and revolutionary propaganda by the opposition and some pressure groups on the other. This polarisation in the Cameroonian political arena corresponds to a similar polarisation in the Cameroonian media. One can identify two main political tendencies in the media: first, there are those who argue that all the government does is good and in the best interest of Cameroon, and that the radical opposition is void of patriots and motivated only by selfish, regional, or ethnic self-interests. These comprise the publicly owned, government-controlled electronic and print media on the one hand, and pro-government 'privately' owned newspapers on the other. Second, there are those who claim that all the radical opposition does or stands for is in the best interest of Cameroon, and that the government and its allies are only motivated by a stubborn love of power and other selfish pursuits. These comprise the bulk of the privately owned papers. The media are polarised into two diametrically opposing camps, each claiming to know and represent the best interests of the Cameroonian people.
    URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-602759
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    Dynamism in African Languages and Literature : Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials (2021)
    Oxford : Langaa RPCIG
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    ISBN: 9956553514 , 9789956553518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (253 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Takemura, Keiko Dynamism in African Languages and Literature
    DDC: 306.44096
    Keywords: African languages Periodicals ; African literature Periodicals History and criticism ; Langues africaines - Périodiques ; Littérature africaine - Histoire et critique - Périodiques
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making -- Motoji Matsuda -- Introduction -- Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials -- Keiko Takemura and Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- PART I. Language -- 1. Convivial Multilingualism as a Modern African Ethos: Cases of East African Non-Arab Arabophone Societies -- Shuichiro Nakao -- 2. Socio-Linguistic Dynamism among Languages: Sketching from Angola as a Frame of Reflection -- Satoshi Terao
    Description / Table of Contents: 3. Documentation of an Afar Traditional Conflict Reconciliation Speech -- Gebriel Alazar Tesfatsion -- 4. Aspects of Linguistic Dynamism in Sheng as Kenyan Colloquial Swahili: Focusing on De-Standardisation and Re-Vernacularisation -- Daisuke Shinagawa -- 5. Flexibility and the Potential of 'African Multilingualism': A Case of Language Practice in Tanzania -- Sayaka Kutsukake -- 6. Kiswahili Language and Its Potentiality for African Development -- Shani Omari Mchepange and Mussa M. Hans -- Part II. Literature -- 7. Swahili from the Perspectives of 'Language' and 'Literature' -- Keiko Takemura
    Description / Table of Contents: 8. Cultural Transformation and the Reconstruction of Tradition in Yoruba Popular Music -- Katsuhiko Shiota -- 9. Literature for African Children: Creation and Publication of Children's Books in French-Speaking West African Countries -- Haruse Murata -- 10. Writing from the In-between: Binyavanga Wainaina's Literary Practices -- Maiko Kanda -- 11. The Social Orientation of Kiswahili Poetry -- Fuko Onoda -- 12. Amos Tutuola as a Quest Hero for Endogenous Africa: Actively Anglicising the Yoruba Language and Yorubanising the English Language -- Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Index
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    Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa : Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana (2015)
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    ISBN: 9789956762071 , 9789956762798 (Sekundärausgabe) , 9789956762071 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 84 pages
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9789956762798
    Edition: ISBN 9789956762071
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 306.2096
    RVK:
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    Keywords: Häuptling ; Demokratie ; Kamerun ; Botswana ; Online-Publikation
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    Dynamism in African Languages and Literature : Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials (2021)
    Bamenda, Cameroon :Langaa RPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group,
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    ISBN: 9956-553-51-4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (253 pages)
    Edition: First edition.
    DDC: 306.44096
    Keywords: African literature Periodicals. History and criticism ; African languages Periodicals.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Preface: African Potentials for Convivial World-Making -- Motoji Matsuda -- Introduction - Dynamism in African Languages and Literature: Towards Conceptualisation of African Potentials -- Keiko Takemura and Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- PART I. Language -- 1. Convivial Multilingualism as a Modern African Ethos: Cases of East African Non-Arab Arabophone Societies -- Shuichiro Nakao -- 2. Socio-Linguistic Dynamism among Languages: Sketching from Angola as a Frame of Reflection -- Satoshi Terao -- 3. Documentation of an Afar Traditional Conflict Reconciliation Speech -- Gebriel Alazar Tesfatsion -- 4. Aspects of Linguistic Dynamism in Sheng as Kenyan Colloquial Swahili: Focusing on De-Standardisation and Re-Vernacularisation -- Daisuke Shinagawa -- 5. Flexibility and the Potential of 'African Multilingualism': A Case of Language Practice in Tanzania -- Sayaka Kutsukake -- 6. Kiswahili Language and Its Potentiality for African Development -- Shani Omari Mchepange and Mussa M. Hans -- Part II. Literature -- 7. Swahili from the Perspectives of 'Language' and 'Literature' -- Keiko Takemura -- 8. Cultural Transformation and the Reconstruction of Tradition in Yoruba Popular Music -- Katsuhiko Shiota -- 9. Literature for African Children: Creation and Publication of Children's Books in French-Speaking West African Countries -- Haruse Murata -- 10. Writing from the In-between: Binyavanga Wainaina's Literary Practices -- Maiko Kanda -- 11. The Social Orientation of Kiswahili Poetry -- Fuko Onoda -- 12. Amos Tutuola as a Quest Hero for Endogenous Africa: Actively Anglicising the Yoruba Language and Yorubanising the English Language -- Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Index.
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