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CODESRIA, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is headquartered in Dakar Senegal. It was established in 1973 as an independent Pan-African research organisation with a primary focus on the social sciences, broadly defined. It is recognised not only as the pioneer African social research organisation but also as the apex non-governmental centre of social knowledge production on the continent.

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Peter W. Vakunta

Peter W. Vakunta

Peter Wuteh Vakunta was born and raised in the village of Bamunka-Ndop in Cameroon where he worked as senior translator at the Presidency of the Republic before immigrating to America. He is an alumnus of Sacred Heart College-Mankon. Vakunta obtained his Bachelor degrees in Cameroon and Nigeria; MA and MSE degrees in Cameroon and the U.S.A. At present, Vakunta and his family live in Madison, U.S.A. He teaches in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he is also completing his PhD dissertation titled: Translation in Literature: Indigenization in the Francophone Text. Vakunta is poet, storyteller and essayist. His published works include Better English: Mind Your P's and Q's, Lion Man and Other Stories (short stories), Brainwaves (poems), Pandora's Box (poems). African Time and Pidgin Verses (poems), Square Pegs in Round Holes (essays) and It Takes Guts (essays). Vakunta's literary works have earned him several awards in the U.S.A, U.K and Africa.

Books authored by Peter W. Vakunta

Cry my Beloved Africa

Essays on the Postcolonial Aura in Africa

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558735 | 100 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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African Studies

Grassfields Stories from Cameroon

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558117 | 104 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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Poetry for the Environment

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558483 | 80 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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Majunga Tok

Poems in Pidgin English

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558612 | 76 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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No Love Lost

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558407 | 132 pages | 229 x 152 mm | 2008 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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Nul n'a le monopole du français

Deux poètes du Cameroon anglophone

Peter W. Vakunta, Bill F. NDI

ISBN 9789956615506 | 94 pages | 203 x 127 mm | 2010 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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Straddling the Mungo

A Book of Poems in English and French

Peter W. Vakunta

ISBN 9789956558896 | 88 pages | 216 x 140 mm | 2009 | Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon | Paperback

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