my scholarship
PUBLICATIONS
Decolonizing Knowledge
My Academic and Literary Footprint in African Studies & Anthropology
My publication record reflects a deep commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry, bridging historical and sociocultural anthropology, African studies, development studies and active language advocacy. Through peer-reviewed monographs, edited volumes, and articles, my scholarly work interrogates complex social dynamics—such as youth identities, traditional governance, and gender issues—while my collaborative language texts actively preserve and promote indigenous literacy for future generations.
Publications in Peer Reviewed Journals
2024. Spears Media Press, Cameroon. Logos, 35(2-3), 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-20240016
2016. Politics at the Margins: Alternate Sites of Political Involvement among Young People in Cameroon. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des Ă©tudes africaines, 50:2, 211-228.
2015. Fabrics of Identity: Uniforms, Gender and Associations in the Cameroon Grassfields.  Africa, 85 (04), 677-696.
2007. Youth Involvement in Civil Society in Cameroon since 1990, Africa Insight37 (3) 308-326.
2006. Engendering Gender Studies in Africa, in CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos. 1&2, 65-69.
2005. Cameroonising Anthropology: Some Trends and Implications The African Anthropologist Vol. 12 (2) 181-198
2005. Tribal Innovators? Traditional leadership and Development in Africa. CODESRIA Bulletin Nos. 3&4 2005. Pp. 41-43
2005. Entertaining repression: Music and Politics in Postcolonial Cameroon.African Affairs, 104, 251-274. (with Francis B Nyamnjoh)
2003. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youth in Cameroon. Africa Development. Vol. XXVIII, Nos. 1&2, 76-104.
2002. The Domestication of Hair and Modernised Consciousness in Cameroon: A Critique in the context of Globalisation. Identity, Culture and Politics, Vol. 2, 99-124. (with Nyamnjoh, F. B & Deborah Durham).
1999. African Youth, Competing Cultures and the Future of Peace. South-South Journal for Culture and Development. 1 (1), 46-65.
Book Chapters
2026. From Mimboland to the Mother City: An ode to conviviality, mobility and incompleteness in celebration of Francis Nyamnjoh at 60. In D. Fuh & B. Omar (Eds.), The conviviality of incompleteness: Celebrating Francis Nyamnjoh (pp. 103–105). Langaa Research & Publishing CIG.
2025. Introduction: V.S. Galega II and the Chroniclers of His Enduring Legacy in Vincent Titanji et al. An Introduction to the Study of Bali Nyonga (pp. xv-xxv). Spears Books, Denver, Colorado.
2024. Chieftaincy Politics and the Explosion of the Anglophone (Ambazonian) Crisis in Cameroon in Lyombe Eko (ed.) The Anglophone Question and Postcolonial Hegemony in Cameroon: The Past that Did not Pass. Spears Books, Denver, Colorado.
2021. “Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd” and the Fallacy of Completeness by Way of African Proverbs. In F. B. Nyamnjoh, P. Nwosu, & H. M. Yosimbom (Eds.), Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs (pp. 327-333). Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG.
2009. Student Activism, Violence and the Politics of Higher Education in Cameroon.: A Case Study of the University of Buea (1993-2003). InYouth and Higher Education in Africa, edited by Donald P Chimanikire. Dakar: CODESRIA. Pp. 9-34.
2009. Southern Perspective on Sport-in-Development: A Case Study of Football in Bamenda, Cameroon. In Sport and International Development, edited by R. Levermore and A. Beacom. Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
2008. Themes and Legacies: Anthropology’s Trajectories in Cameroon, in Aleksandar Boskovic (ed.) Other People’s Anthropologies: Ethnographic Practice on the Margins. Oxford, Berghahn Books. (Chapter 7, pp 125-141).
2006. Ambiguous Transitions: Mediating Citizenship among Youth in Cameroon, in Björn Beckman & G R Adeoti (eds.) Intellectuals and African Development: Pretension and Resistance in African Politics. London, Zed Books. (Chapter 4, Pp 69-92).
2003. Music and Politics in Cameroon. In J.-G. Gros (ed.), Cameroon: Politics and Society in Critical Perspective. Lanham: University Press of America. Pp. 185-209. (with Francis Nyamnjoh).
Book & Film Reviews
2021. Holtedahl, Lisbet. Wives. 85 mins. DVD, colour. London: RAI, 2017. ÂŁ50 (institutional); ÂŁ5 (home), Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 27, 1001-1031
2021. Charlotte Walker-Said, Review of Faith, Power and Family: Christianity and Social Change in French Cameroon. Nordic Journal of African Studies – Vol 29 No 3 (2020).
2021. Review of Kathrin Tiewa, The Lion and his Pride: the politics of commemoration in Cameroon. Cologne: Rüdiger K ppe Verlag (pb €39.80 – 978 3 89645 838 4). 2016, 253 pp., Africa, Vol 91, Issue 2
2016. Review of Michaela Pelican, Masks and Staffs: Identity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields. New York: Berghahn, 2015. 258 pp. American Anthropologist, 118: 849–850.
2016. Review of Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters, edited by Andrew Bank and Leslie J. Bank, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013,  354 pp. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines
2015. Review of Janet Roitman, Anti-Crisis. Anthropology Southern Africa. 37:3-4, 268-269
2015. Review of Meredith Terretta, Nation of Outlaws, State of Violence: Nationalism, Grassfields Tradition and State Building in Cameroon. Africa.
2013. Review of Ginsburg, Rebecca At Home with Apartheid: The Hidden Landscapes of Domestic Service in Johannesburg.Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne des études Africaines, 47:2, 311-313.
2012. Review of Piot, Charles Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War Canadian Journal of African Studies/La Revue Canadienne des études Africaines. 46 (3), 461-463.
2008. Review of Argenti, Nicolas The intestines of the state: Youth, violence, and belated histories in the Cameroon Grassfields. Journal of Contemporary African Studies 26 (3):350-353.
2008. Review of Konde, Emmanuel African Women and Politics: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Male-dominated Cameroon. African Affairs, 107(427) 292-294.
2007. Review of Christianse, Catrine, Mats Utas, and Henrik E. Vigh Navigating Youth, Generating Adulthood: Social Becoming in an African Context.
2007. Review of Nyamnjoh, Francis B. Insiders & Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 25 (3), 439-442.
2004. Review of Konings, Piet and Francis B. Nyamnjoh Negotiating an Anglophone Identity in Cameroon. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 38 (2), 467-469.