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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Indiana University Press
2015
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid technological and social change in various places throughout Africa.
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Indiana University Press
2015
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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such media to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid technological and social change in various places throughout Africa.
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Decolonising the Academy

Decolonising the Academy

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Basler Afrika Bibliographien
2020
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Recurrent clamours by students and academics for universities in Africa and elsewhere, to imbibe and exude a spirit of inclusion are a continual reminder that universities can and need to be much more convivial. Processes of knowledge production that champion delusions of superiority and zero-sum games of absolute winners and losers are elitist and un-convivial. Academic disciplines tend to encourage introversion and emphasise exclusionary fundamentalisms of heartlands rather than highlight inclusionary overtures of borderlands. Frequenting crossroads and engaging in frontier conversations are frowned upon, if not prohibited. The scarcity of conviviality in universities, within and between disciplines, and among scholars results in highly biased knowledge processes. The production and consumption of knowledge are socially and politically mediated by webs of humanity, hierarchies of power, and instances of human agency. Given the resilience of colonial education throughout Africa and among Africans, endogenous traditions of knowledge are barely recognised and grossly underrepresented. What does conviviality in knowledge production entail? It involves conversing and collaborating across disciplines and organisations and integrating epistemologies informed by popular universes and ideas of reality. Convivial scholarship is predicated upon recognising and providing for incompleteness - in persons, disciplines, and traditions of knowing and knowledge making.
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Le Réveil de l'Africain Désillusionné

Le Réveil de l'Africain Désillusionné

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2025
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This satirical and thought-provoking tale follows the peregrinations of Charles, a quick- witted but disillusioned philosopher, as he navigates the cultural landscape of Europe and grapples with the complexities of postcolonial Africa. His letters to his friend Moungo back home blend humour with biting social commentary, offering a provocative exploration of identity, power and the quest for belonging. Throughout Charles' journey, the reader is confronted with difficult questions about the nature of progress, the burden of history, and the legacy of colonialism...Ce r cit satirique et stimulant suit les p r grinations de Charles, un philosophe l'esprit vif mais d sillusionn , alors qu'il navigue dans le paysage culturel de l'Europe et s'attaque aux complexit s de l'Afrique postcoloniale. Ses lettres son ami Moungo rest au pays m lent humour et commentaire social mordant, offrant une exploration provocatrice de l'identit , du pouvoir et de la qu te d'appartenance. Tout au long du voyage de Charles, le lecteur est confront des questions difficiles sur la nature du progr s, le fardeau de l'histoire et l'h ritage du colonialisme... Le r veil de l'Africain d sillusionn est un roman pistolaire qui explore la d ception des intellectuels africains face aux promesses non tenues de l' ducation et du d veloppement. Traduire un roman pareil n'est aucunement un acte sans enjeux et d fis. Comment pr server le ton et la voix du narrateur ? Bill F Ndi, Traducteur-traductologue, po te, dramaturge, conteur, critique litt raire, et professeur l'Universit de Tuskegee aux USA Le r veil de l'Africain d sillusionn est une critique acerbe du monde postcolonial. Il conteste le discours colonial et ses avatars postcoloniaux. Il fustige l'iniquit d'un discours colonial dont les effets s'av rent durable dans la p riode postcoloniale, combattant cette pist mologie avec la derni re nergie. Il inclut dans cet examen tant l'ancien colonisateur que l'ancien colonis . Le personnage principal n' pargne personne. Pas m me lui-m me. Il est critique et autocritique. Il volue dans la trame complexe des logiques africaines et des logiques occidentales de ce monde. Il expose les apories de ce monde postcolonial inter-reli et interconnect . Ce livre est donc d'une tonnante et d'une consternante actualit . Pratiquement tous les th mes qui y sont abord s, animent aujourd'hui, et ce parfois fortement, les m dias globaux ou locaux, mainstream ou r seaux sociaux, officiels ou alternatifs. Aghi Bahi, Professeur d'anthropologie de la communication l'Universit F lix Houphou t-Boigny (C te d'Ivoire)
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Yaa Yang

Yaa Yang

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2025
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When the Fon of Yang vanishes, a shadow descends, leaving only whispers and fear. Ten-year-old Mtofalo becomes Yaa Yang, a fragile regent against the encroaching darkness. However, a ruthless usurper claims the throne, threatening to shatter her family and plunge the kingdom into darkness. Faced with despair or defiance, Yaa Yang must stand against the tyrant, a single flame against a storm of injustice. Beyond the palace, rebellion stirs, and her journey will test her spirit, reshape her destiny, and decide the kingdom's fate. Can one young heart ignite a revolution against the encroaching night?
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Reimagining African Scholarship

Reimagining African Scholarship

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2025
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This book reimagines African scholarship by challenging the enduring influence of Eurocentric paradigms and advocating for a decisive shift towards decolonised knowledge production. It introduces the concept of "convivial scholarship," an inclusive framework that embraces the inherent incompleteness of knowledge, the dynamism of mobility, and the power of collaboration across diverse perspectives. The collection provides a comprehensive examination of the African scholarly and publishing landscape, celebrating the voices and intellectual traditions that have often been marginalised. From analysing the complex politics of knowledge production to exploring the future of African publishing in the digital age, this book envisions and inspires a more equitable, dynamic, and transformative future for African thought.
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The Rational Consumer

The Rational Consumer

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2018
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This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations - persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols - and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene. It provides a substantiated and convincing explanation for what is happening today in Donald Trump's America. In the form of a history of ideas, the book makes clear that the present Trumpian manipulation of democracy and what it means to be American has a long pre-history and continues to go through different phases, involving the cultivation and institutionalisation of strong bonds between business and politics. The book shows how this is intimately linked with a science, intellectualism and practice informed by a series of binary oppositions in human action and interaction (e.g. rationality and irrationality, reason and emotion, mind and body, brain and heart, insider and outsider, us and them) and how unpredictable human nature really is. It makes a convincing argument that being human depends on how successfully we are able to negotiate such apparently contradictory binaries with the intricacies and dynamism of human agency. It is rich and thought provoking and very timely, given the exclusionary politics of fear, anger, hate and nativism we see unfolding not only in the USA but all over the world.
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Incompleteness

Incompleteness

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2022
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This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest. Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play. Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success.
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Les Déboires de Dieudonné

Les Déboires de Dieudonné

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2023
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Les d boires de Dieudonn est n de l'un des grands dilemmes moraux de l'Afrique, o la responsabilit personnelle est troitement li e la catharsis sociale provoqu e par les ambitions de domination et des cercles toujours s'amenuisant. Le lecteur rencontre Dieudonn la fin de son service de domestique chez les Toubaaby, un couple d'expatri s condescendants. En compagnie de diff rents types de personnages bons vivants et de musique lancinante au Grand Canari Bar, Dieudonn raconte sa vie. En pluchant ses vicissitudes couche apr s couche, il d peint la r silience quotidienne de l'Africain sur un continent pris dans la toile des forces pr datrices. Pourtant, cet chec enchanteur c l bre aussi la capacit infinie de l'Africain trouver le bonheur et d fier la victimisation. Francis B. Nyamnjoh est actuellement professeur d'anthropologie sociale l'Universit du Cap en Afrique du Sud.
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Incompleteness Mobility and Conviviality

Incompleteness Mobility and Conviviality

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2023
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Central to the Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 is an invitation to take incompleteness seriously in how we imagine, relate to and seek to understand a world in perpetual motion. Despite our instinct for and obsession with completeness, we are constantly reminded that the sooner one recognises and provides for incompleteness and the conviviality it inspires as the normal way of being, the better we are for it. Fluidity, compositeness and the capacity to be present in multiple places and forms simultaneously in whole or in fragments are core characteristics of reality and ontology of incompleteness. How would we frame our curiosities and conversations about processes, relationships and phenomena with an understanding of the universality of incompleteness and mobility? West and Central Africa, for example, are regions where it is commonplace to embrace and celebrate incompleteness in nature, the suprasensory, human beings, human actions, human inventions and human achievements. The lectures indicate how we could draw inspiration in this regard to inform current clamours for decolonisation and the growing ambivalence about rapid advances in digital technologies (artificial intelligence (AI) in particular), as well as with twenty-first century concerns about migrants and strangers knocking at the doors of opportunities we feel more entitled to as bona fide citizens and insiders. The lectures draw on the writings of Amos Tutuola as well as from popular ideas of personhood and agency in Africa, to make a case for sidestepped and silenced traditions of knowledge. They highlight Africa's possibilities, prospects and emergent capacities for being and becoming in tune with the continent's creativity and imagination. They speak to the nimble-footed flexible-minded frontier African at the crossroads and junctions of myriad encounters, facilitating creative conversations and challenging regressive logics of exclusionary claims and articulation of identities and achievements. The traditions of knowledge discussed in these lectures do not only speak to Africans, but to the world, as the philosophies explored have universal application. "The crucial anthropological question of relationality and othering is at the heart of this original and enlightening book. Nyamnjoh cautions the missionaries of decoloniality against the risk of substituting one illusion of completeness with another. For him, incompleteness is the basis of any healthy exchange. He therefore recommends embracing the universality of incompleteness in motion and taking seriously an ancestral tradition of self-extension through creative imagination in this anxious age of artificial intelligence. Forcefully argued and abundantly substantiated - with finesse and laughter that run through it - this book will be a milestone by making us rediscover the demands and the magic of fieldwork." Prof. Dr. Mamadou Diawara, Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt/Main Point Sud, Bamako, Mali
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Echoes of Grace

Echoes of Grace

Francis B Nyamnjoh

Langaa RPCID
2024
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Pearl, a young woman, embarks on a journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of class, culture, and identity. Guided by the resolute support of her mentor, Father Honeywell, she confronts societal expectations, overcomes personal setbacks, and makes difficult choices that shape her future. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of belonging, the importance of staying true to oneself, and the abiding power of love. From the classrooms of Queen of Rosary of Converted Hills to the Glitter City through The Prided Valley of her homeland, her life is a powerful meditation on resilience and the profound impact of critical education to transform humanity. Her coming-of-age story is a celebration of self-discovery and the enduring spirit of the human heart.
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