Download or read book Kingdom of Mankon written by Christopher Chi Che and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures attributed to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted orally from generation to generation, the author has painstakingly analysed and documented aspects of Mankon culture for posterity. The work focuses in particular on Mankon proverbs for insights into the structure and function of the language. As a vehicle of communication, language plays a primordial role in encoding and decoding 'metalinguistic' data. Through thorough scientific linguistic universals and principals, Chi Che has proposed orthography for Mankon pedagogy that is simple, tenable and practicable. This book is the answer to the international clarion call for societies to analyse and document their endangered indigenous cultures. Schools, linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, historians and others will find this book especially useful.
Download or read book Kingdom of Mankon Aspects of History Language Culture Flora and Fauna written by Christopher Che and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a descriptive and documentary analysis of the Mankon I-language and E-language mirrored through aspects of history, geography, flora and fauna. These aspects manifest in the taxonomic nomenclatures we attribute to referents in society. Because these referents were hitherto transmitted orally from generation to generation, the author feels the rich Mankon culture could be endangered. Consequently, he has painstakingly analysed and documented aspects of this culture for posterity. This work focuses the Mankon proverb because it gives an insight into the structure and function of the language. Language, a vehicle of communication, plays a primordial role in encoding and decoding 'metalinguistic' data. Through thorough scientific linguistic universals and principals, the author has proposed orthography for Mankon pedagogy that is simple, tenable and practicable. This book is the answer to the international clarion call for societies to analyse and document their endangered indigenous cultures. Schools, linguists, sociolinguists, anthropologists, historians, etc will find this book especially useful.
Download or read book A Concise and an Analytical History of Mankon Kingdom about 1197 2012 written by Christopher Che and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploratory and anthropological showcase of the cultural heritage of the Mankon Kingdom. The author feels this colourful and diversified culture and history, which hitherto had been handed down verbally from generation to generation may face endangerment if not harnessed, documented and projected. This is more so because the cosmopolitan nature of Mankon village, the heartbeat of Bamenda City, erodes her culture piecemeal. The author asserts Mankon, her neighbours and local administration must uphold good-neighbourliness ethos in order to avert disruptive land/boundary disputes that may jeopardize the much-cherished peace in the region. He argues cogently, Cameroon's administration may change nomenclature to avert conflict as the denomination 'Bamenda' referring to the area now occupied by Bamenda I, II, III and beyond, and inherited from the colonial administration, actually means the village and territory of Bamenda I.
Download or read book Mankon Lexicon written by Christopher Che and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankon Lexicon: A Bilingual (Mankon-English) Dictionary is an in-depth analysis of the Mankon lexicon. Its bilingual (Mankon-English) thesaurus interface makes it a palatable pedagogic and self-help learning tool. It is a useful reference book for pupils and students, and other independent adult learners of the Mankon Language who will find it easier to learn the language because of the adjuvant English glosses (translations/interpretations). This dictionary is highly recommended for the Mankon and Ngemba home and Diaspora elite and their children. Equally, lovers of the Mankon Fondom will use it for interactive insights into Mankon and the Ngemba tribe at large. A lexicon of about 5000 active vocabulary items and their glosses is analyzed for the learner's useful reference.
Download or read book Fo S A N Angwafo III Remembered written by F. Angwafo and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are thrilled to share with you this rich harvest of tributes on Fo Solomon AnyeGhamoti Angwafo III of the Kingdom of Mankon. The tributes are by people and institutions from Mankon, Cameroon and the world at large, that knew him well and generously responded to our call for memories, testimonies and reflections to mark his transitioning from Atsum to join his ancestors at Alankyi. The tributers share with the reader their thoughts on various aspects of who King Solomon Angwafo III was and what he meant to them. A common thread in the tributes is the irrepressible admiration for the ideas, ideals, principles and values he championed and lived by for 97 years. His leadership, wisdom, deeds, sociality and humanity are in focus. Fo Angwafo III had a lifelong commitment to cultivation. To him, living was not just about tilling the soil for sustenance, it was also about tending the mind and the soul. He valued agriculture and culture in equal measure. In this and other aspects he was a pacesetter all his life. He had a warm heart and welcoming smile for all and sundry. In conversations and good company, his distinctive laughter brightened and lightened the weights of hearts and minds. In leadership, he distinguished himself most as a servant. Fo Angwafo III was father of both the beginner and the expert, the pupil and the teacher, the fool and the philosopher. He was the father of all: the good, the bad and the ugly. His disappearance offers us an opportunity for introspection. He leaves us in the well-cultivated hands of Fo Fru-Asah Angwafo IV, an educationist, through whom his presence and inspiration will continue to be felt, and from whom we will continue to learn.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon written by Mark Dike DeLancey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
Download or read book Cameroon s Predicaments written by Angwafo, Peter Tse and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2014-08-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with a variety of socio-cultural, economic and political problems facing Cameroon and the rest of Africa, with particular reference to unemployment, corruption, poverty, criminality, violence, insecurity, and moral decadence. It presents a critical analysis of government policies from the colonial era to the present time; arguing that most of these policies have been stalled by an uncommitted leadership. The regime in Cameroon has drifted away from basic managerial and democratic principles in in favour of the ethnicisation of politics, sterile consumption, clientelism and patronage. The book contends that corruption has become the main instrument of governance whereby the political and economic elites control the wealth of the nation at the expense of a majority who wallow in abject poverty and misery. Faced with the difficult economic and political situation, most youth and the intelligentsia have adopted 'official and 'unofficial' means to circumvent all immigration rules to travel to affluent Western countries, the consequences notwithstanding. Brain drain is often the outcome. Further, it examines issues of social exclusion, political representation and marginalization with special focus on the predicament of Anglophone Cameroonians as a socio-cultural community. The inclusion of examples and case studies based on empirical and secondary data from Africa is intended to foreground the importance of comparison, and attract the interest of both academic and non-academic readership.
Download or read book Tse Bo Bi a Pedagogic and Self Help Learning Approach to Mankon Language written by Christopher Che and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a commendable self-help learning and institutional pedagogic tool. Its granular interface starting with the Mankon Language sound and writing systems through grammar and vocabulary studies to historical discourse, facilitates the learning of the language. The language learning approach is situational-based with re-enforcement dialogues and passages reflecting everyday life. The pictorial illustrations are an adjuvant for word and scenic "imaging" for easier meaning decoding. Of course, each unit culminates in a test exercise. A lexicon of about 3500 active vocabulary items and their glosses is inserted at the end of the book for the learner's useful reference.
Download or read book Tse Bo Bi Ntsu Nigham written by Christopher Chi Che and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet is a commendable self-help learning and institutional pedagogic tool. It is part of a larger book whose granular interface starting with the Mankon Language sound and writing systems through grammar and vocabulary studies to historical discourse, facilitates the learning of the language. The language learning approach is situational-based with re-enforcement dialogues and passages reflecting everyday life. The pictorial illustrations are an adjuvant for word and scenic “imaging” for easier meaning decoding. Of course, each unit culminates in a test exercise.
Download or read book Mankon written by Jean-Paul Notué and published by 5Continents. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the artistic and cultural production of the small kingdom of Mankon located on the high plateau of Western Cameroon. Featured are objects which are linked with rituals, of prestige or more ordinary pieces all bearing the memory of the treasures of kings, notables and secret societies. Their production plays a fundamental role in cultural continuity, protects evidence of the past and preserves objects used in rites for the well-being of society. This is why they form an essential part of the artistic and cultural heritage of the whole of Mankon. They are extraordinarily rich, both regarding the quality of the objects, by the diversity of domains they approach and by the variety of decorative patterns, styles and themes.
Download or read book Cameroon s Educational System ESL EFL Teaching and Inspection written by Christopher Che and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESL/EFL Teaching and Inspection is a collection of seven (7) thoroughly researched and classroom-tested articles on the Cameroonian educational system and English as a Second Language (ESL) / English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teaching and inspection methodologies. The articles centre on critiques of the Cameroon education system, the techniques of teaching pronunciation, reading and grammar; course material evaluation and finally, the inspection of all of the above. CHI CHE has chosen only a few of these areas he considers thorny to teachers in ESL/EFL teaching and inspection world-wide and in Cameroon in particular, in order to share his experiences with them in these teaching/learning areas.
Download or read book Bambui Arts and Culture written by Mathias Fubah Alubafi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the traditional arts and culture of Bambui, a kingdom in the western Grassfields of Cameroon. Although a small kingdom in comparison to much bigger kingdoms such as Mankon, Banso, Kom and Bali, the arts and culture of this kingdom have served, and continue to serve, as a way of life, as ritual, as decoration, and as a means of uniting with the sublime since pre-colonial times. However, in presenting the arts and culture of the western Grassfields, scholars have given much attention only to the dominant kingdoms. As such, Bambui, and many other smaller kingdoms have been rendered voiceless. This text brings forth the voice of one of the smallest kingdoms in the western Grassfields through the presentation of its historical arts, and culture, and the changes that have taken, and continue to take place, in the society. It represents primarily an examination of the socio-cultural organisation of the kingdom and the various kinds of art that are used within the different contexts. These milestones are well-illustrated with historical and contemporary images.
Download or read book The Art of the Bambui Kingdom Western Grassfields Cameroon written by Mathias Fubah Alubafi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as part of the Bambui Museum and Ecotourism Project (BMEP), this stunningly illustrated book introduces readers to the history of the Bambui fondom in the western Grassfields of Cameroon, and presents an exhaustive interpretation of the artistic and cultural heritage of the fondom. Initially conceived as part of an initiative launched in 2001 by Centro Orientamento Educativo, an Italian NGO, aimed at creating museums in some palaces of the Cameroon Grassfields, the book serves as a pilot endeavour towards addressing problems associated with antiques and other cultural assets such as theft and the illegal traffic of objects, the exploitation of poor fondoms by African art dealers and researchers from the West, and the lack of education about the different ways and means the fondoms could employ to transform these resources to the benefit of all. For anyone aspiring to learn about the rich and diverse art of Bambui, in particular, and the western Grassfields as a whole, this book will prove useful, especially since it is written by someone who has lived, and is still living, the Bambui experience.
Download or read book The Urhobo Language Today written by Tanure Ojaide and published by Malthouse Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering work on Urhobo language, and since language is not the restricted domain of only scholars of linguistics, other aspects of the language or issues that impinge on language use are also discussed in this collection of essays by a eleven experts drawn from research institutes and universities. Since literature is a vehicle of language, the proverbs and axioms of the language as well as the oratorical and performance traditions in Urhobo are also covered competently. Other cultural aspects, especially music, are also seen as enhancers of the language. To underscore the significance of religion and language, some contributors here examine the relationship between the Urhobo language and Christian evangelisation and between the language and the people's belief systems. Another also explores the place of language in what has come to be known as Urhobo "disco" music. The essays reinforce each other and some points are repeated for emphasis because of their cultural significance. The closeness of several topics, especially the challenges of the language and culture and on evangelisation in Urhobo as well as Gospel music in Urhobo, is intended to exhaustively open up the Urhobo language debate." Tanure Ojaide is Professor of African-American and African Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he teaches African/Pan-African literature and art. Rose Aziza is the Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics and Director of the Urhobo Studies Programme at the Delta State University in Nigeria.
Download or read book Cactus Opuntia Spp as Forage written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opuntias are multipurpose plants that are increasingly being used in agricultural systems in arid and semi-arid areas. Due to its high water-use efficiency, it is particularly useful as forage in times of drought and in areas where few other crops can grow, and it is now considered a key component for the productivity and sustainability of these regions. This publication presents current scientific and practical information on the use of the cactus Opuntia as forage for livestock.
Download or read book Afropolitan Horizons written by Ulf Hannerz and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Nigerian Connections -- Palm Wine, Amos Tutuola, and a Literary Gatekeeper -- Bahia-Lagos-Ouidah: Mariana's Story -- Igbo Life, Past and Present: Three Views -- Inland, Upriver with the Empire: Borrioboola-Gha -- The City, according to Ekwensi . . . and Onuzo -- Points of Cultural Geography: Ibadan . . . Enugu, Onitsha, Nsukka -- Been-To: Dreams, Disappointments, Departures, and Returns -- Dateline Lagos: Reporting on Nigeria to the World -- Death in Lagos -- Tai Solarin: On Colonial Power, Schools, Work Ethic, Religion, and the Press -- Wole Soyinka, Leo Frobenius, and the Ori Olokun -- A Voice from the Purdah: Baba of Karo -- Bauchi: The Academic and the Imam -- Railtown Writers -- Nigeria at War -- America Observed: With Nigerian Eyes -- Transatlantic Shuttle -- Sojourners from Black Britain -- Oyotunji Village, South Carolina: Reverse Afropolitanism.
Download or read book East Benue Congo written by John R. Watters and published by Language Science Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first in what hopefully will be a growing set of edited volumes and monographs concerning Niger-Congo comparative studies. This first volume addresses matters that are relevant to the entire East Benue-Congo family as well as the particular branches Kainji, Plateau, and Bantoid. In the case of Bantoid, the particular focus is on Grassfields and the Grassfields-Bantu borderland, though other Bantoid subgroups are referenced. The potential topics for comparative studies among these languages are numerous, but this volume is dedicated to presentations on nominal affixes, third person pronouns, and verbal extensions. A forthcoming volume will provide some results of reconstructions and lexicostatistics in Cross River, exploratory reconstructions in Southern Jukunoid, and reconstructions in Ekoid-Mbe and Mambiloid.
