Francis B. Nyamnjoh Explained

Birth Place:Bum, Cameroon
Fields:Social anthropology
Workplaces:University of Cape Town
Alma Mater:University of Yaoundé (BA, MA)
University of Leicester (PhD)
Thesis Title:Change in the concept of power amongst the Bum (MA)
Thesis Year:1985
Website:https://www.nyamnjoh.com/
Awards:ASU African Hero
Eko Prize for African Literature
ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize
Honorific Suffix:FAAS FBA
Honorific Prefix:Professor

Francis B. Nyamnjoh (born 1961) is a Cameroonian Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. He was recipient of the annual "ASU African Hero 2013" award from the African Students Union at Ohio University, the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature, and his book #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa won the 2018 ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph.

Life and career

Early life and education

Francis B. Nyamnjoh was born in 1961 in Bum, Cameroon.[1] [2] [3] He obtained his Bachelor of Arts (1984) and Master of Arts (1985) from the University of Yaoundé in Cameroon. His master's thesis was titled Change in the concept of power amongst the Bum. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leicester, in 1990.[4] [5] [6] [7]

Career

Nyamnjoh moved from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he held the position of Head of Publications from July 2003 to July 2009,[8] to the University of Cape Town in August 2009 to take up a position as Professor of Social Anthropology.[9]

Research

Nyamnjoh has conducted considerable study and written extensively about Cameroon,[10] [11] [12] [13] [14] Botswana,[15] [16] [17] and generally African politics.[18] [19] He has taught sociology, anthropology, and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana. According to the South African National Research Foundation, he is a professor and researcher with a B1 rating (NRF). He is the chair of the editorial board of Langaa Research and Publishing Center in Bamenda (2005)[20] [21] and has served as Editorial Board Chair for the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Press (2011-2019).

#RhodesMustFall

Nyamnjoh books include #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa,[22] This book, which is built on his previous book Insiders and outsiders: Citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary Southern Africa (2005), is a book on citizenship, rights, and entitlements in post-apartheid South Africa demonstrates how racism and its advantages still exist and that the field has not been levelled as some have assumed. It examines the issue of race in a culture still troubled by the lingering effects of apartheid, inequality, and attitudes of inferiority and inadequacy among the majority black population via the regular interactions and experiences of university students and lecturers where due to the ongoing renewal and addition of circles of privilege to a complex and long history of the growth of black sorrow, black voices and concerns in education are usually ignored.[23] These problems are discussed against the backdrop of organised student protests that are roiling the nation's campuses and calling for change under the banner of "Black Lives Matter." This thorough examination of the Rhodes Must Fall campaign raises interesting concerns regarding the benefits and drawbacks of exclusionary definitions of belonging due to its multifaceted complexity. What might the modern quick-footed makwerekwere from Africa north of the Limpopo possibly have in common with the big imperialist of the past like the stripling Uitlander or foreigner Sir Cecil John Rhodes? According to Nyamnjoh, the solution lies in how human movement constantly pushes the limits of citizenship.[24] [25]

Awards and honours

Nyamnjoh received the "Senior Arts Researcher of the Year" award in 2003. Nyamnjoh was given the University of Cape Town Excellence Award in October 2012 in recognition of his "exceptional contribution as a professor in the Faculty of Humanities", an award renewed in 2017 and again in 2022. In September 2021, he was elected as a fellow by the College of Fellows of the University of Cape Town, in recognition of his research. #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa won the 2018 ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph, he was recipient of the annual "ASU African Hero 2013" award from the African Students Union at Ohio University,[26] the 2014 Eko Prize for African Literature.[27] [28]

Nyamnjoh was elected a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences in 2011, the African Academy of Sciences in 2014,[6] a fellow of the Academy of Science of South Africa in 2016, and an International Fellow of the British Academy in 2024.

Selected books

References

  1. Web site: Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 1961- . 2022-12-16 . Libris . sv.
  2. Web site: AUT - Úplné zobrazení záznamu . 2022-12-16 . aleph.nkp.cz.
  3. Web site: Nyamnjoh, Francis B. 1961- (Francis Beng Nyamnjoh) Encyclopedia.com . 2022-12-16 . www.encyclopedia.com.
  4. Web site: Professor Francis B. Nyamnjoh . 2022-12-16 . MIDEQ - Migration for Diversity and Equality . en.
  5. Web site: Professor Francis B Nyamnjoh .
  6. Web site: Nyamnjoh Francis B. The AAS . 2022-12-16 . www.aasciences.africa . 2022-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221216174647/https://www.aasciences.africa/fellow/nyamnjoh-francis-b . dead .
  7. Web site: Francis Nyamnjoh . 2022-12-16 . The Conversation . 16 January 2018 . en.
  8. Web site: Francis Nyamnjoh . 2022-12-16 . Francis Nyamnjoh.
  9. Web site: African Books Collective: Francis B. Nyamnjoh . 2022-12-16 . www.africanbookscollective.com.
  10. Konings . Piet . Nyamnjoh . Francis B. . June 1997 . The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon . The Journal of Modern African Studies . en . 35 . 2 . 207–229 . 10.1017/S0022278X97002401 . 1887/4616 . 145801145 . 1469-7777. free .
  11. Nyamnjoh . Francis . Rowlands . Michael . July 1998 . Elite associations and the politics of belonging in Cameroon . Africa . en . 68 . 3 . 320–337 . 10.2307/1161252 . 1161252 . 145424119 . 1750-0184.
  12. Book: Konings . Piet . Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon . Nyamnjoh . Francis Beng . 2003-01-01 . BRILL . 978-90-04-13295-5 . en.
  13. Web site: CAMEROON: A COUNTRY UNITED BY ETHNIC AMBITION AND DIFFERENCE . 2022-12-16 . academic.oup.com.
  14. Web site: Entertaining repression: Music and politics in postcolonial Cameroon . 2022-12-16 . academic.oup.com.
  15. Nyamnjoh . Francis B. . December 2002 . Local Attitudes towards Citizenship and Foreigners in Botswana: An Appraisal of Recent Press Stories . Journal of Southern African Studies . en . 28 . 4 . 755–775 . 10.1080/0305707022000043502 . 144778901 . 0305-7070.
  16. Nyamnjoh . Francis B. . July 2003 . Chieftaincy and the Negotiation of Might and Right in Botswana Democracy . Journal of Contemporary African Studies . en . 21 . 2 . 233–250 . 10.1080/02589000305447 . 153444057 . 0258-9001.
  17. Mogalakwe . Monageng . Nyamnjoh . Francis . 2017-01-02 . Botswana at 50: democratic deficit, elite corruption and poverty in the midst of plenty . Journal of Contemporary African Studies . en . 35 . 1 . 1–14 . 10.1080/02589001.2017.1286636 . 157883961 . 0258-9001. free .
  18. Nyamnjoh . Francis B. . August 2012 . Blinded by Sight: Divining the Future of Anthropology in Africa . Africa Spectrum . en . 47 . 2–3 . 63–92 . 10.1177/000203971204702-304 . 143283428 . 0002-0397. free .
  19. Karlström . Mikael . 2004-12-01 . Modernity and Its Aspirants: Moral Community and Developmental Eutopianism in Buganda . Current Anthropology . 45 . 5 . 595–619 . 10.1086/423974 . 142751147 . 0011-3204.
  20. Web site: Desire for knowledge – Langaa and publishing in Africa . 2022-12-16 . University World News.
  21. Web site: RPCIG . Langaa . 2021-03-03 . Distinguished International Lecture by Prof. Francis B. Nyamnjoh gave at Kobe University on the Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd book . 2022-12-16 . Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group . en-US.
  22. Book: Nyamnjoh, Francis B. . #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa . 2016 . Langaa RPCIG . 10.2307/j.ctvmd84n8 . j.ctvmd84n8 . 978-9956-763-16-0.
  23. Book: Nyamnjoh, Francis B. . Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa . 2006 . Zed Books . 978-1-84277-677-3 . en.
  24. Book: B, Nyamnjoh, Francis . #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa . 2016-04-18 . Langaa RPCIG . 978-9956-763-16-0 . en.
  25. Web site: Francis Nyamnjoh, 'Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa' . 2022-12-16 . Francis Nyamnjoh.
  26. Web site: Prof. Nyamnjoh: ASU Africa Hero 2013 . 2022-12-16 . Francis Nyamnjoh.
  27. Web site: Prof. Francis Nyamnjoh Wins 2014 Eko Literature Prize .
  28. Web site: RPCIG . Langaa . 2018-11-11 . The winner of the 2018 Fage and Oliver Prize is Francis B Nyamnjoh . 2022-12-16 . Langaa Research and Publishing Common Initiative Group . en-US.

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