Francis Nyamnjoh

Serie: Quelques auteurs camerounais anglophones - Francis Nyamjoh

Écrit par Dibussi Tande and Joyce Ashutantang  (Le Jour)

Francis Nyamjoh est surtout connu comme chercheur, lui qui a publié de manière extensive sur la globalisation, la citoyenneté, les medias, la politique identitaire en Afrique, et a enseigné la sociologie, l’anthropologie et la communication dans des universités au Cameroun, au Botswana et en Afrique du sud.

  

Son livre Africa’s Media : Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (2005) est l’un des ouvrages les plus cités sur la question des medias, de l’ethnicité et de la démocratisation au Cameroun.

A Review of Francis Nyamnjoh's "The Travail of Dieudonne"

Originally published in The Standard (Kenya)

Title: The Travail of Dieudonne
Author: Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Publisher: East African Educational Publishers (Peak Library)
Year of Publication: 2008
Reviewer: Tom Odhiambo

The Travail of Dieudonne is a modern version of Meja Mwangi’s Going Down River Road.

The main narrative in the novel is a biography of Dieudonne, a houseboy (that colonial term that refuses to go away) to an expatriate white couple teaching at a university in Mimboland.

Eradicating ‘Cultural Poverty’

By Francis Nyamnjoh (Originally published on The Broker)

On reading through the IOB evaluation report I’m particularly struck by the emphasis on the sectoral approach to aid. It is as if normal life is lived in disconnected segments, and as though the successes scored in one sector cannot be cancelled out by the failure to address the needs in other sectors. Of course, it could always be argued that no single donor has resources enough to intervene simultaneously across a broad spectrum of sectors. But even so, this begs the question of what informs the choice of sectors and, even more important, what quantity and quality of research should inform the choice of sectors in order to guarantee successful outcomes.

“Knitting Our Social Worries in One Story”: A Review of Francis B.Nyamnjoh’s Souls Forgotten

By Nixon K. Takor (Mphil Research Student), ASC- University of Leiden

Is Nyamnjoh a sociologist or novelist? This enquiry among others has lingered in the minds of many who happen to stumble on any of his works. Track him along any genre of scholarship, leave him with any academic trade mark, he in my opinion is just a social pedagogue who has the uphill task to film society as it is, query it to expose the invisible, at times visible but unspeakable and unthinkable facets of human society. Nyamnjoh does this in different ways depending on where his imagination intuits him. He has a piquant parcel of words which he situates in context to attract the widest audience in the social environment he sets out to examine. In the novel Souls Forgotten, Nyamnjoh’s approach is ‘infotainment’ where he informs his audience about the social issues inherent in a mythic state society called Mimboland, and at the same time tries to capture and sustain their attention through literary entertainment .