Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions
Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about “Africa,” as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state. So one begins wondering why it is that Africans, on the other hand, do not refer to individual European countries as “Europe” simply, then the trends and consequences of stereotyping begin setting in just as one is getting used to being asked if Africa has a president, or if one can say something in African. It is some of these questions that Emmanuel Fru Doh has collected over the years and has attempted answering them in an effort to shed some light on a continent that is in many ways like the rest of the world, when not better, but which so many love to paint as dark, backward, chaotic, and pathetic.
£38.00
About the author
Emmanuel Fru Doh holds a PhD in English (Literature emphasis) from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Between 1990 and 1997 he taught African Literature at the University of Yaounde I (ENS Bambili), Cameroon, during which time he established himself as a major voice in Cameroon’s literary arena. An accomplished teacher, poet, and critic, Emmanuel Fru Doh currently teaches in the Department of English at Century College, Minnesota, U.S.A. where he is also Associate Editor of Phantasmagora.
Review
“This new volume on gender within the constantly changing Cameroonian context from the perspective of language and discourse analyses is particularly welcome. The contributions are accessibly written and provide us with good insight on this new and important field of study. The book will surely be of great interest to anybody interested in language and gender, as well as in African sociolinguistics and discourse studies.”
Dr Piet Konings, Sociologist, African Studies Centre Leiden, the Netherlands
“The new Cameroon envisaged by Godfrey Tangwa in his Rotcod Gobata column is one free of political demagogy, double standards, stoogery and sycophancy. It should be a Cameroon where people are moved by principle and love of country, not propelled or remote-controlled by the whims and caprices of self-serving dictators and schizophrenics, or worse still, by their foreign paymasters and overlords. It should be a Cameroon void of censorship, even the symbolic; a Cameroon where there are no political inquisitions, and where no one is forced underground or into exile because of his or her opinions and beliefs. The new Cameroon should be truly democratic, not on paper but in fact.”.
Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
“This book is a must read as it addresses questions too often thought of, but afraid to ask by so many. Emmanuel Fru Doh’s writing is riveting as it opens the minds and hearts of men and women who truly are seeking an understanding of what ‘is’ African as interpreted by Africans. This work is honest, authentic and forthright in all of its accounts on how stereotypes of Africa have been applied; moreover, misapplied through excessive and purposeful distortions by the West.”
Dr Alvin L. Killough, Cultural Ecological Psychologist, University of Minnesota, Crookston, USA
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