This primer of 29 alphabets and sound combinations that make up the modern Mungaka language is a much-welcome addition to the instructional needs of indigenous languages in Africa. First time learners as well as seasoned speakers of Mungaka will find this book very easy to navigate given its simple layout, large print and colorful illustrations. The Kindle Edition is interactive and equipped with audio to expedite the learning process. This book is the first in a series of educational materials that aim to revitalize and accelerate the pace of Mungaka’s status as a language of literacy in the Cameroon Grassfields and beyond.

The New Mungaka Alphabet for Beginners: Dùti mà Fuŋ boà mà Ŋwà’ni Chû Bàʼnì nì màd mfi

Politics & Social Sciences

Fokwang, Jude

Social Sciences

Spears Books

Review\n"Cultivating Moral Citizenship is a meticulous and engaging account of how young people in Africa respond, in personal and associational ways, to the impediments to self-realization and generational possibilities through complex moral imaginations. An excellent ethnography of citizenship, young adulthood, subjectivity and sociability in the abysmal context of contemporary Anglophone Cameroon that speaks to wider contexts."- Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania & editor of Everyday State and Democracy in Africa: Ethnographic Encounters (2022)\n"In this must-read book, Fokwang finely outlines, analyses, and convincingly demonstrates how a category of Cameroonians defined as youth - despite attaining biological maturity - work hard to reposition themselves, respectfully, as social adults. His focus on the agency of these young people is within a cultural and socioeconomic milieu where reaching adulthood or responsible citizenship, is an uphill task. Fokwang develops the concept of 'moral citizenship' to capture the experiences of these young people in their quest to achieve social adulthood. Their strategies of recognition are individual and collective and involve practices of self-care, associational life, charity as well as activities that positively impact the communities. This highly recommended monograph challenges as well as expand our anthropological knowledge on themes such as subjectivity, youth, personhood, identity, citizenship, gender, and adulthood."Primus M. Tazanu, PhD, Senior Lecturer of Anthropology, University of Buea, Cameroon, and Senior Guest Researcher, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.\n"This is a gem for youth studies in Africa. One of the richest and most compelling ethnographic accounts of youth and the crisis of becoming." 
Divine Fuh, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town\nIn Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer, Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to position themselves as social adults. Faced with the decline of old predictabilities, the diminishing capacity of the postcolonial state to control its destiny and the precarity of waithood, young people instrumentalise the opportunities and resources afforded by associations to build reciprocal relationships that advance their individual and collective pursuits in a community that has increasingly become transnational. In positioning themselves as moral actors, the young people in this ethnography invest in high profile social and communal projects, including the enforcement of moral orthodoxies that enable readers to appreciate the ways in which moral citizenship is engendered, expanded and eroded simultaneously.

Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands

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.

Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms

Anthropology

Langaa RPCID

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The New Mungaka Alphabet for Beginners: Dùti mà Fuŋ boà mà Ŋwà’ni Chû Bàʼnì nì màd mfi

Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People's Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands

Mediating Legitimacy: Chieftaincy and Democratisation in Two African Chiefdoms