Cultivating Moral Citizenship
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... READ MORE
Wives: A Review
The subject of polygamy often evokes mixed sentiments and sometimes outright rage from opponents who hold that polygynous marriages are patriarchal schemes designed to gratify men at the expense of women. READ MORE
How African Christian Leaders Advanced the Conversion of their own People in Colonial French Cameroon
In recent times, Africa’s cities and towns have experienced an explosion of Pentecostal fervour as more and more “men of God” invest in the business of saving souls or peddling the shibboleth that... READ MORE
Faith, Power and Family by Charlotte Walker-Said: A Review
In Faith, Power and Family, Walker-Said details Christianity’s role in reconfiguring African marriage and family-building among French Cameroonians in the southern forest, coastal zones and the western Grassfields. READ MORE