wyszukanych pozycji: 38
The Disillusioned African
ISBN: 9789956558025 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This humorous tale of the naive and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in gestation for a period of nearly two decades. With allusion to traditions of the philosophical novel and the picaresque, Nyamnjoh's protagonist travels from his African village to the sharply divided and socially cruel world of 1980s Britain. By casting aside his disillusion and the traps of servitude and victimhood, The Disillusioned African reveals his creative potential for curiosity and adventure. He brings a bird's eye view, always...
This humorous tale of the naive and curious African student-cum-philosopher wandering between North and South, the rural and the urban, has been in ge...
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170,13 zł |
Mind Searching
ISBN: 9789956558049 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Mind Searching Nyamnjoh has attempted to do something rather clever - to expose, through the attitudes, feelings and thoughts of one man and a very simple story, the hypocrisy and corruption of Cameroon society and humanity in general, often using understatement and irony in good effect. The commentary is unremittingly cynical and returns again and again to corruption, callous squandering, exploitation, prostitution, and other fairly worn butts. The book depicts a society where basic freedoms are shackled, and thinking aloud treasonable. Hence the mental ramblings of the narrator and...
In Mind Searching Nyamnjoh has attempted to do something rather clever - to expose, through the attitudes, feelings and thoughts of one man and a very...
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170,13 zł |
Stories from Abakwa
ISBN: 9789956558001 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, as they are chased through an orchard for secretly harvesting avocadoes and mangoes. Smile as Mathias Chi's overloaded canoe almost loses balance. Shiver as Roland runs through the dark streets and bleeding corridors of Mvog Mvog. And cry when Big Brother discovers how his siblings suffered when he was away at school. What happens to Esther when she finds the courage to make an announcement at the Abakwa Mountain Foot Radio Station about her...
Childhood and growing up in Mimboland, Cameroon are infused with fascinating stories and adventures. Discover life in Abakwa with Tom and his friend, ...
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170,13 zł |
A Nose for Money
ISBN: 9789966254276 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospere, a semi-literate Mimbolander who is searching for the finer things in life. The novel presents a graphic picture of the frustrations engendered by a society that values wealth over love."
Set in the fictional and reluctantly bilingual land of Mimbo in contemporary Africa, this story revolves around the tragedy of the haunting Prospere, ...
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186,57 zł |
Digital Uprising: The Flower of Freedom in Mimboland
ISBN: 9789956554775 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,53 zł |
Intimate Strangers
ISBN: 9789956616060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimensions of servitude and mobility. Immaculate travels to a foreign land only to find her fiance refusing to marry her. Operating from the margins of society, through her own ingenuity and an encounter with researcher Dr Winter-Bottom Nanny, she is able to earn some money. Will she remain at the margins or graduate into DUST - Diamond University of Science and Technology? Immaculate learns how maids struggle to make ends meet and madams wrestle to...
Intimate Strangers tells the story of the everyday tensions of maids and madams in ways that bring together different worlds and explore various dimen...
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192,09 zł |
Echoes of Grace
ISBN: 9789956554386 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,77 zł |
Souls Forgotten
ISBN: 9789956558124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer as they used to be. Things must not be normal all the time, otherwise life would not be life." When Emmanuel Kwanga gets a University scholarship, he travels from the lake and hills of Abehema to the Great City. Everyone in the village has invested in him their hopes for the good life. When the life they've imagined is cut short by the University guillotine, Emmanuel Kwanga must struggle to make sense of what the good life means - for himself and...
One day, Mama Ngonsu told her son: "Normally, a child grew up and stayed around to help his parents. The world has changed, and things are no longer a...
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225,00 zł |
Decolonising the Academy: A Case for Convivial Scholarship
ISBN: 9783906927251 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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126,23 zł |
Married But Available
ISBN: 9789956558278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Married But Available ventures into a theme about which people say as much as they withhold. It explores intersections between sex, money and power, challenging orthodoxies, revealing complexities and providing insights into the politics and economics of relationships. During six months of fieldwork in Mimboland, Lilly Loveless, a Muzungulander doctoral student in Social Geography, researches how sex shapes and is shaped by power and consumerism in Africa. The bulk of her research takes place on the outskirts of the University of Mimbo, an institution where nothing is what it seems. Through...
Married But Available ventures into a theme about which people say as much as they withhold. It explores intersections between sex, money and power, c...
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225,00 zł |
University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa. The 2005 -2006 University Students' Strike in Cameroon
ISBN: 9789956727070 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in numerous, often violent, strikes for improvements in their deteriorating living and study conditions and the introduction of a democratic culture in the universities and society as a whole, including the right to express their views, organise in student unions and participate in university management. This book focuses on a recent violent strike action in Cameroon's state universities, with special attention to the University of Buea - the only...
Faced with a deepening crisis in their universities, African students have demonstrated a growing activism and militancy. They have been engaged in nu...
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296,32 zł |
Predicaments
ISBN: 9789956579273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this juvenalia, his first collection of poems, Francis Nyamnjoh takes the reader back in time, even as the past catches up with the present, to show how unchanging and even painful life can be. Accordingly, the poems celebrate, mourn, ridicule, lambast, and lament, thereby highlighting Nyamnjoh's characteristic fascination with the plight of the person in society, a picture which reaffirms his already established role as the conscience of spaces, especially those African.
In this juvenalia, his first collection of poems, Francis Nyamnjoh takes the reader back in time, even as the past catches up with the present, to sho...
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159,16 zł |
Modernising Traditions and Traditionalising Modernity in Africa. Chieftaincy and Democracy in Cameroon and Botswana
ISBN: 9789956762071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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...
Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally tr...
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159,16 zł |
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa
ISBN: 9781842776773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'A remarkable study? Among the many significant theoretical and empirical contributions that Nyamnjoh makes in this study, perhaps most incisive is the intensity with which Africa is incorporated into the consumption practices of global capitalism in that no object, territory or experience is beyond being a locus of often fierce struggle over their disposition and use.' - Professor AbdouMaliq Simone
'By an ethnographic focus on South Africa and Botswana, this book elegantly and convincingly illustrates the ills of bounded citizenship of the nation-state. Whether it is the Makwerekwere or... 'A remarkable study? Among the many significant theoretical and empirical contributions that Nyamnjoh makes in this study, perhaps most incisive is th...
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191,42 zł |
Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought
ISBN: 9789956550968 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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219,50 zł |
Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship
ISBN: 9789956552870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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263,39 zł |
C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire
ISBN: 9789956762521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntus precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid change and multiple responsibilities. Africans negotiate their social existence between urban and rural life, their continental and transcontinental distances, and all the market forces that now impinge, with relationships and loyalties placed in question. Between ideal and reality, dreams and schemes,...
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African ...
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203,06 zł |
Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
ISBN: 9781842775837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa within in the rapidly changing global media and shows how patterns of media ownership and state control have evolved and the huge difficulties under which most African media workers labour. The author also explores the whole question of media ethics and professionalism in Africa. The general analysis is supported by a very detailed unique case study of Cameroon. Nyamnjoh is critical of the Western-derived institutional framework for multi-party...
This major study explores the role of the mass media in promoting democracy and empowering civil society in Africa. The author contextualizes Africa w...
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181,84 zł |
Homeless Waters
ISBN: 9789956579518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they didnt miss the father they hadnt known. Later on, in the alluvial valleys of Bonfuma and the lands beyond, Ngoma experiences the thrills and challenges of schooling and being schooled. Adolescents will appreciate his stories and struggles as he tries to reconcile his village roots with the desire for a modern education. He has special relationships with his grandfather, stepfather and teachers, and becomes captain of the college football team....
Life in Safang could not have been more idyllic for Ngoma and Shaka, his elder sister. Under the wings of an attendant and storytelling mother, they d...
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170,13 zł |