The Cameroon Condition
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The Cameroon Condition
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Author : George Ngwane
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2012
The Cameroon Condition written by George Ngwane and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
The Cameroon Condition brings together three seminal essays by George Ngwane, one of the most renowned, committed and daring Anglophone Cameroon writers. 'The Mungo Bridge, ' is a stinging indictment of the tenuous relations between La Republique du Cameroun and the Southern Cameroons - a marriage gone sour right from the honeymoon. It raises hard questions on the failed union, and is uncompromisingly courageous in the solutions it proposes. This popular essay was first published at a time when it was risky to be open and critical, especially on what has come to be known as The Anglophone Problem. 'The Anglophone File' discusses the narrow and barren politics of belonging that have exacerbated divisions and controversies among Anglophone elites, turning them into political fodder for the Francophone dominated state. The essay suggests ways out of the divisions and intrigue that have kept Anglophones permanently at daggers drawn against each other, and facilitated their exploitation, humiliation and marginalization. The third essay, 'Fragments of Unity, ' concerns the South West Region, whose leaders Ngwane criticizes of political opportunism and of a chronic lack of vision and fortitude with regard to the socio-economic development of the region. It calls for a leadership free of the docility, mediocrity and praise-singerliness. These are powerful essays that have attracted praise and criticism alike. They are essays to leave few indifferent. Their continued relevance to current debates makes of them a most rea
Education Of The Deprived
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Author : S. A. Ambanasom
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2010
Education Of The Deprived written by S. A. Ambanasom and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with African drama (English) categories.
A literary analysis of 13 English Cameroonian plays.
Dialogue And The Interpretation Of Illness
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Author : Robert Pool
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-19
Dialogue And The Interpretation Of Illness written by Robert Pool and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-19 with Health & Fitness categories.
The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday communication. During the course of numerous dialogues, witchcraft, a highly ambivalent force, gradually emerges as the prime mover. As destructive cannibals or respectable elders the witches are the ultimate cause of all significant illness, misfortune and death, and as diviners they are also the ultimate judges who apportion moral responsibility. Even the ancestors and the traditional gods turn out to be fronts behind which the witches hide their activities.The study is on three levels: a medical anthropological exploration of explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft; and an examination of recent theoretical issues in anthropology such as the nature of ethnographic fieldwork and the possibility of dialogical or postmodern ethnography.
The Cultural Determinants Of Ill Health
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Author : Tatah Peter Ntaimah
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-03
The Cultural Determinants Of Ill Health written by Tatah Peter Ntaimah and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with Medical categories.
This exploratory study aimed at assessing the cultural determinants of the weight of health problems in Cameroon with focus on the experience of person living with epilepsy in the Manguissa community. It also took into consideration socio-economic and environmental factors that surround patients. It is based on paucity of data on the social aspects in disease burden assessment. Example is the use of the Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) over the years in the measurement of disease burden. The DALY is only adjusted for age, sex, and time of onset of disease and does not account for specific social, cultural and environmental aspects in the spaces where diseases occur. Meanwhile health status is undoubtedly a social construct than a mere biological definition. In order to assess the social aspects of epilepsy in the Manguissa community, an exploratory approach was adopted. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. Qualitative data collection relied heavily on observations, in-depth interviews, and photo voice methods, while quantitative data collection relied on SF12 Scale, ComQol and semi-structured questionnaire. The use of multiple methods permitted the triangulation of data to grasps all the aspects of the study. It was found that culture influences the perception and attitudes towards people living with epilepsy in the Manguissa community. Therapy which is mostly sought among traditional healers and spiritual specialists, social stigmatisation of patients and physical avoidance are consequences of cultural perception of the disease. The experience of the weight of epilepsy is influenced by gender. Females living with epilepsy are given better treatment within the family and community circles than their male counterparts. This is because females are to a certain extent perceived to have many other things to offer (sex and reproduction). Males living with epilepsy have greater control over the disease than their female counterparts. This is because they are allowed to fend for themselves and they develop control over their disease as a coping strategy. Generally, people living with epilepsy suffer from many other health complications which further lead to low quality of life. Health complications like; loss of consciousness, dizziness, headache, body pains and sight problems further compound social stigma and lead to low self-esteem. Epilepsy weakens patients' socio-economic activities. Activities like fishing, driving, sand digging, "eru" harvesting and the harvesting of fruits are completely stopped. Farming is reduced to small surfaces within the built up area. Apart from the economic hardship and dependence which are the products of the disease, being diagnosed to have epilepsy in the Manguissa community means attaining the status of a mad person. Patients are forced to think they are different from others. This leads to depression which further creates a rift between them and the whole community. The perception of the disease among the Manguissas as contaminating is a pointer to the fact that many people across ethnic boundaries do not understand the true nature of epilepsy. Conclusively, the true nature of any health problem does not only rely on the biological assessment of pain and the number of active years lost as these are insufficient to account for what people suffer from. Stigma and its associated ills: isolation, depression, low self esteem and low quality of life weigh much not only patients but equally on close family members (the significant others).
Land As A Pre Condition To Access The National Maize Support Program In Cameroon
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Author : Glory Manambowoh Lueong
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2010-08-02
Land As A Pre Condition To Access The National Maize Support Program In Cameroon written by Glory Manambowoh Lueong and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with Social Science categories.
Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: 85.0%, Erasmus University Rotterdam, course: Rural Livelihoods and Global Change, language: English, abstract: This paper explores the question of how the land tenure system in the North West Region of Cameroon affects rural farmers‟ access to the National Support Program to the Maize Sub-Sector (NSPMS) in Cameroon. It does this by confronting NSPMS‟s assumptions about farmers‟ access to land with, the land tenure question existing in the Region. The paper uses an analytical framework which links land tenure institutions, processes of groupformation and social exclusion to challenge these assumptions. The paper argues that, following the nature of the African land question, traditional chiefs do not mainly administer land for the benefit of their subjects in an era of increased land commoditization. Traditional land administration in this era is highly knitted into economic and social relations of power and status which thus suggest high risks of discrimination and exclusion. As such, the paper seeks to add to the knowledge of how mechanisms of social exclusion could be rooted in land tenure institutions but go unnoticed and, continue to further nurture other forms of disadvantage, inequality, exclusion and great vulnerability to acute poverty. The findings of this research suggest disparities between; expectations of NSPMS in their grant making assumptions and, field realities experienced by small scale maize farmers. Instead, there was group polarization. FG‟s which had land were all made of people of similar social status in terms of their privileged position to access land while,landless groups were mostly made of socio-culturally discriminated categories of farmers. In this regard, there was no mixed group (both landless farmers and landlords) which had received grants.Ensuing from this divide therefore, this paper concludes by questioning the adoption of FG as a strategy to include majority of landless maize farmers by NSPMS. Rather, this paper is of the stance that, with the current land tenure question and, NSPMS grants conditions, there seem to be the gradual emergence of a classed rural society made up of landlords and the landless. This is because, the blurred mix of customary and statutory tenures provides for lobbying and land grabbing by the elite and, NSPMS through its grant making scheme is rather reinforcing the class situation by adding other forms of capital to the landlords while the landless are progressively being excluded from such capital accumulating programs.
Proceedings
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Proceedings written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with College students categories.
A History Of The Cameroon
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Author : Tambi Eyongetah Mbuagbaw
language : en
Publisher: London : Longman
Release Date : 1974
A History Of The Cameroon written by Tambi Eyongetah Mbuagbaw and has been published by London : Longman this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Responding To Disease Outbreak In Cameroon
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Author : Pius W. Akumbu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Responding To Disease Outbreak In Cameroon written by Pius W. Akumbu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.
Cameroon
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Author : Emmanuel Konde
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-01-16
Cameroon written by Emmanuel Konde and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-16 with Political Science categories.
Cameroun was “conceived” in 1947 at the Unicafra Congress in Douala, attended by all the aspiring political actors, from which sprung Racam (Rassemblement Camerounais) that declared itself the Cameroun government in embryo. Shocked by that effrontery, the French colonial state immediately banned Racam. From the ruins of Racam emerged Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) in 1948 that stood opposed to French policies in Cameroun. It opposed France in Cameroon for ten years until the French assassinated its leader—Ruben Um Nyobe—in September 1958. In January 1959 France decolonized and granted Cameroun independence at a time when the people were still reeling from the trauma of Um Nyobe’s death. Cameroon: Traumas of the Body Politic examines the traumatic events that have shaped the contours and influenced the trajectory of Cameroon’s political history from the 1940s to the 1990s: the momentous power shifts of 1958 and 1959 in the two Cameroons; rupture of coastal and hinterland cooperation in Southern Cameroons; the political revolution called “anlu” that changed the course of politics in Southern Cameroons; the disappointment of reunification and the genesis of the Anglophone Problem; Ahidjo’s quarter-century reign of terror; the succession schism, attempted coup d’état, political liberalization, and the “New Deal Society” experiment; the quest for multipartyism and “Operation Ghost Town”, etc. These events are explored anew through critical analysis, synthesis, and re-interpretation with uncommon explanatory power.
Traditional Doctors And Psychiatry In The North West Province Of Cameroon
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Author : Emmanuel Anyangwe Ngassa
language : en
Publisher: Iko
Release Date : 2003
Traditional Doctors And Psychiatry In The North West Province Of Cameroon written by Emmanuel Anyangwe Ngassa and has been published by Iko this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Cultural psychiatry categories.
"This book tries to pour some light on traditional medicine as an alternative form of health management as practised in Cameroon (Africa). Use is made of the treatment of some psychiatric cases to point out the pros and contras of traditional medicine. Elaborate references are made to some earlier works on traditional medicine in Africa as a whole and Cameroon in particular. A great section of the book is dedicated to the research work carried out with four renowned traditional doctors. The findings in Bafut and Njinikom show that traditional doctors make a lot of contributions to mental health in their localities."--BOOK JACKET.