Download or read book Bali Nyonga Today written by K. Titanji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon. Already well-established as a city-state prior to German colonization in the 19th century, Bali Nyonga continues to adapt to national and global changes since its incorporation into the modern state of Cameroon. With fresh contributions from 12 leading scholars, this volume covers a wide variety of themes and issues including; geographical and historical updates on Chamba migration and settlement in its present homeland in Northwestern Cameroon, an in-depth description of Bali Nyonga cultural associations within the country and the Bali diaspora in the United States, the coexistence of traditional and modern religious worldviews, traditional medicinal practices and life-cycle rituals of significance. Of noteworthy are two chapters devoted to Mungaka, the language of the Balis and its revival in the context of new language policies and developments in African linguistic. Spiced with numerous photos, many of which have never been published, the book is a welcome addition to studies in contemporary African history, culture and society.
Download or read book Society and Change in Bali Nyonga written by Jude Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Bali Nyonga is a rapidly growing town of over 80,000 in habitants, sixteen kilometres southwest of Bamenda, the capital of the North West region, Cameroon. If Cameroon has been aptly referred to in many circles as Africa in miniature, then Bali Nyonga, since its founding in the mid 19th century is emblematic of this so-called multicultural region. This book is about change in Bali Nyonga, but it is also about change in a typical postcolonial African setting grappling with a challenging new world reality. It aims to provide cutting-edge analyses of cultural change in Bali as well as inspire a new kind of scholarship in the Cameroon Grasslands championed by indigenous intellectuals. The contributors to this volume come from diverse academic backgrounds and as will be evident in the various chapters, their disciplinary perspectives have largely shaped their approaches to the topics under study. Hence, this book draws on anthropological, theological, literary and media studies perspective.
Download or read book In Search of Harmony written by Fondi Nyamndi and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Harmony traces the migration of Bali Nyonga, its transformation from a raiding band into a settled community in the Bamenda Grassfields, its development from a dispirited splinter of the broken Chamba alliance into a structured kingdom with solid institutions and a powerful monarch, its fateful encounter with the Europeans, and its transition into competitive national politics. It explores the complex and often conflicting web of relationships with its neighbours that have continued to impact its development. Students of Cameroon history and politics will find this volume useful, informative and challenging.
Download or read book Bali Nyonga Today written by Vincent Titanji and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly edited volume, Bali Nyonga Today covers about thirty years of (1985-2015) developments in Bali Nyonga, Cameroon. With fresh contributions from 12 leading scholars, this volume covers a wide variety of themes including updates on the revival of Mungaka as a tool of literacy in modern Bali society.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names written by John Koyela Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an exceptional minefield of Chamba names, meticulously assembled and expatiated for the curious user. As a pioneer in the field of dictionary-writing in the Cameroon grassfields, Fokwangís third edition counts for more than a regular dictionary. It skilfully combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as ethnographic issues on the naming ritual. John Fokwangís work stands in a class of its own and will serve as reference material for people of Chamba descent and those who favour the use of African names in general. This edition is an exceptionally worthy contribution to the ethnography of the Cameroon grassfields and of course, the growing literature and interest on African names and languages.
Download or read book In Search of Harmony written by Fondi Ndifontah Nyamndi and published by Spears Books. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Search of Harmony traces the migration of Bali Nyonga, its transformation from a raiding band into a settled community in the Bamenda Grassfields, its development from a dispirited splinter of the broken Chamba alliance into a structured kingdom with solid institutions and a powerful monarch, its fateful encounter with the Europeans, and its transition into competitive national politics. It explores the complex and often conflicting web of relationships with its neighbours that have continued to impact its development. Students of Cameroon history and politics will find this volume useful, informative and challenging.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names written by Koyela Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Popular Bali Names is an exceptional minefield of Chamba names, meticulously assembled and expatiated for the curious user. As a pioneer in the field of dictionary-writing in the Cameroon grassfields, Fokwangs third edition counts for more than a regular dictionary. It skilfully combines a short history of the Chamba people in Cameroon as well as ethnographic issues on the naming ritual. John Fokwangs work stands in a class of its own and will serve as reference material for people of Chamba descent and those who favour the use of African names in general. This edition is an exceptionally worthy contribution to the ethnography of the Cameroon grassfields and of course, the growing literature and interest on African names and languages.
Download or read book Traditions Tales and Proverbs of the Bali Nyonga written by Johannes Stöckle and published by Rudiger Koppe. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lela in Bali written by Richard Fardon and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lela in Bali tells the story of an annual festival of eighteenth-century kingdoms in Northern Cameroon that was swept up in the migrations of marauding slave-raiders during the nineteenth century and carried south towards the coast. Lela was transformed first into a mounted durbar, like those of the Muslim states, before evolving in tandem with the German colonial project into a festival of arms. Reinterpreted by missionaries and post-colonial Cameroonians, Lela has become one of the most important of Cameroonian festivals and a crucial marker of identity within the state, Richard Fardon's reconstruction of two hundred years of history is an essential contribution not only to Cameroonian studies but also to the broader understanding of the evolution of African cultures."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Planning a Family in Bali Nyonga written by Sarah C. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mungaka Alphabet Workbook written by Jude Fokwang and published by Spears Media Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This workbook synthesizes materials we have developed since the initiation of an online course on elementary Mungaka. It is intended to provide users with a deeper understanding of the new Mungaka alphabet, its sounds and other basic writing conventions. Although it is prepared with a Mungaka 101 learner in mind, the book could be useful for individuals who have never taken a course in the new alphabet. We have therefore aimed to provide the reader with a broad but elementary material that will enable them to master the essentials of the Mungaka alphabet and how to use them in everyday written and spoken contexts.
Download or read book The Earth Mother written by Kehbuma Langmia and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We can only reminisce in this beautiful drama, and hope that while the audience enjoys itself, it is called to sympathize and take a peek at the turbulence that once rocked the peaceful life of a strong traditional society." Lillian Fomunung, University of Tennessee, USA.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Bali Nyonga written by Vincent Titanji and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture written by Toyin Falola and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Download or read book Who Needs the Past written by R. Layton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.
Download or read book Mediating Legitimacy Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms written by Jude Thaddeus Dingbobga Fokwang and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyses the effects of democratic transition in two African countries - Cameroon and South Africa - on chiefs and the institution of chieftainship. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, the monograph explores the cultural and socio-political conditions that enabled chiefs to reinvent themselves in the new era of democratic politics despite their status as 'old political actors'. It explores the kinds of legitimacies claimed by chiefs in the new era and the responses of their subjects to such claims, particularly with respect to chiefs' involvement in national politics. The monograph makes a case for the importance of comparative research on chiefs in the era of democracy and the predicaments they face therein. It contends that contrary to exhortations about the incompatibility of chiefs and democracy, the reality is that political transition in both South Africa and Cameroon produced contradictions, creating space and a role for chiefs in a fascinating and negotiated interplay of legitimacies and history.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of African Religion written by Molefi Kete Asante and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects almost five hundred entries that cover the African response to spirituality, taboos, ethics, sacred space, and objects.
