African Modernities and Mobilities
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African Modernities and Mobilities

An Historical Ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008

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African Modernities and Mobilities

An Historical Ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008

About this book

In this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what it has meant to be and belong in Kom an ethnic community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon since 1800, he explores the discourses and practices of kfaang as central to any understanding of mobility and modernity in Kom, Cameroon and Africa at large. The book unveils the emic understanding of modernity through the history and ethnography of kfaang and its technologies and illustrates how these terminologies were conceived and perceived by the Kom people in their social and physical mobilities. It documents and analyzes the historical processes involved in bringing about and making kfaang a defining feature of everyday life in Kom and among Kom subjects.

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Information

Publisher
Langaa RPCIG
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9789956762729
eBook ISBN
9789956762378
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
African History
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Chapter 1 - Introduction: Theory and Progress of Kfaang
  9. Chapter 2 - Background and Methodology
  10. Chapter 3 - Kom In Global Communication Ecology, c.1800-c.2008
  11. Chapter 4 - Roads, Mobility and Kfaang , C.1928-1998
  12. Chapter 5 - Motor Vehicle (Afue’m A Kfaang
  13. Chapter 6 - Church, Christianity and Kfaang in Kom (Ndo Fiyini Ni Iwo Fiyini Kfaang
  14. Chapter 7 - School, Schooling and Literacy (ndogwali kfaang ) 1928 to c.1980
  15. Chapter 8 - Letters and Letter Writers (Ghelii-Do Gwa-Ali Kfaang
  16. Chapter 9 - Plantations, Coast (Itiini Kfaang ), Bushfallers And Returned Migrants
  17. Chapter 10 - Ex-Service Men, (Ghiili-I-Wong-I-Kfaang) 1914-1946
  18. Chapter 11 - Elite Women (Ghii’ki Kfaang) : Women and Newness in Colonial and Post Colonial Kom, Cameroon Since c.1930s
  19. Chapter 12 - From Foot Messengers to Text Messengers c.1800-1998: Change and Continuity of Kfaang Men
  20. Chapter 13 - Mobility and Encounters with Different Worlds
  21. Chapter 14 - Conclusion: Kom Identity as Work In Progress
  22. Bibliography
  23. Back cover