Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging

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 labor. The author also explores the whole question of media ethics and professionalism in Africa. The general analysis is supported by a detailed case study of Cameroon.

Politics & Social Sciences

Nyamnjoh, Francis B.

Politics & Government

Zed Books

Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (Africa in the New Millennium)

This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and the new politics of insiders and outsiders. As globalization becomes a palpable reality, citizenship, sociality and belonging are subjected to stresses to which few societies have devised a civil response beyond yet more controls.

Social Sciences

This study of xenophobia and how it both exploits and excludes is an incisive commentary on a globalizing world and its consequences for ordinary people's lives. Using the examples of Sub-Saharan Africa's two most economically successful nations, it meticulously documents the fate of immigrants and the new politics of insiders and outsiders. As globalization becomes a palpable reality, citizenship, sociality and belonging are subjected to stresses to which few societies have devised a civil response beyond yet more controls.

History

Africa

Decolonising the Academy: A Case for Convivial Scholarship

Basler Afrika Bibliographien

This study of Cameroon captures, with fascinating detail and insight, the growing disaffection with the sterile rhetoric of nation-building that has characterised much of postcolonial African politics. It focuses on the resistance of Anglophone Cameroonians to nationhood, which is being pursued to the detriment of minority identities.

Negotiating an Anglophone Identity: A Study of the Politics of Recognition and Representation in Cameroon (Afrika-Studiecentrum Series, 1)

Arts & Photography

Konings, Piet

History & Criticism

Brill Academic Pub

Product Description 
This is a study of how Donald J. Trump, his populist credentials notwithstanding, borrows without acknowledgment and stubbornly refuses to come to terms with his indebtedness. Taken together with mobility and conviviality, the principle of incompleteness enables us to distinguish between inclusionary and exclusionary forms of populism, and when it is fuelled by ambitions of superiority and zero-sum games of conquest. 
Nyamnjoh challenges the reader to reflect on how stifling frameworks of citizenship and belonging predicated upon hierarchies of humanity and mobility, and driven by a burning but elusive quest for completeness, can be constructively transcended by humility and conviviality inspired by taking incompleteness seriously. Nyamnjoh argues that the logic and practice of incompleteness is a healthy antidote to name-calling and scapegoating others as undesirable outsiders, depending on the brand of populism at play. 
Recognising incompleteness also helps to question sterile and problematic binaries such as those between elites and the impoverished masses among whom populists go to fish for political visibility, prominence and success. 
 Review 
"This is without doubt the most interesting, thought-provoking and inspiring book I have read on populism. Nyamnjoh not only shines new light on familiar issues, but also fundamentally changes the way we look at a debate that was at risk of becoming tired and repetitive. He persuasively argues that we cannot hope to fully get to grips with contemporary populism unless we first understand the nature of citizenship, and the fact that projects of citizenship - like our own human projects - are inherently incomplete. This turns out not only to be key to fully appreciating one of the most important political phenomena of our time, but also to resisting it. A must read." - Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, and author of How to Rig an Election 
"In this innovative, rich and penetrating analysis, Nyamnjoh reveals that at the root of populism lies a mindset unable to cope with challenges of a complex world. Taking his cue from incompleteness, mobility and conviviality, he offers an alternative approach which opens new possibilities to negotiate our increasingly interconnected existence on an ever-unfolding journey of inclusivity." - Professor Bernard C. Lategan, Founding Director, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) 
"Francis Nyamnjoh's writings, now in their fourth decade, consistently open fresh, varied and original lines of scholarship and advocacy. Belying and transcending this book's Trumpian title and content, discoveries and pleasures await below if he's new to you. They could take you to places you haven't read about or been. That's so even if it means going through the omnipresent (or lurking), ceaselessly headlined Trump, to 'get' to him, and to get to where I think Francis also wants to take us here." - Milton Krieger, Emeritus Professor, Department of Global Humanities and Religions, Western Washington University 
 About the Author 
Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa

Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship

Langaa RPCIG

Incompleteness Mobility and Conviviality: Ad. E. Jensen Memorial Lectures 2023 Frobenius-Institut Goethe-University

Langaa RPCID

Echoes of Grace

Literature & Fiction

Digital Uprising: The Flower of Freedom in Mimboland

African Books Collective

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