Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. His research interests include media, identity, and elections in Africa; writing and publishing in Cameroon; and literary representations of the African peri-urban.David Simo is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He is interested in postcolonial theory and in connections between cultural globalization and African literary history.Esaïe Djomo is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. His interests center around audiovisual German culture in Cameroon.Godfrey Tangwa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. His research interests center on epistemology, metaphysics, and bioethics as they relate to African philosophy.Aloysius Ngefac is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He is the founder and general coordinator of TRANG (Transformative Research and Networking Group). He has published several books related to his research interests in sociolinguistics, world Englishes, postcolonial pragmatics, creolistics, transformative research, and transformative development.

• TABLE OF CONTENTSNotes on Editors and Contributors Editors’ PrefacePART ONE: INTRODUCTION AND A TRANSFORMATIVE DEVELOPMENT VISIONIntroduction Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni, David Simo, Esaïe Djomo, Godfrey B. Tangwa and Aloysius Ngefac A transformative development vision for postcolonial Africa: Focus on Social Sciences and Cultural StudiesAloysius Ngefac PART TWO: VOICES OF SOCIAL SCIENTISTS AND HUMANITIES EXPERTSGlimpses of transversal research in African Studies: a new roadmap for postcolonial African nationsAlain Cyr Pangop Kameni Towards a new paradigm for African development in the context of the Covid-19 PandemicGodfrey B. Tangwa The Pragmatics of myths and the psychological transformation of AfricaDivine Che Neba Which humanities for the development of postcolonial Africa?Esaie Djomo Climate Change Politics, Justice and Solution: An Ecolinguistic Appraisal of the Cameroonian PerspectiveJulius Angwah Ethnic Diversity and the Problem of National Unity in Cameroon: A Historical Perspective, 1961-2016 René Ngek Monteh PART THREE: VOICES OF CULTURAL EXPERTSDiscourses on Culture in Africa: Paradigms and Challenges David Simo Grassfield Cultural Attractions of Mezam Division in Cameroon: Imprints of Indigenous Knowledge Faced with Western InnovationsYvette Akwa Neba & Ojuku Tiafack The production of arts and handicrafts for the transformative development of postcolonial Africa: The case of the Nweh ethnic group in CameroonNorah Aziamin Asongu Post-modernist Afropop music and transformative developmentJoseph Nkwain Index

The essays that have been assembled into this volume, unique in its combined multilateral perspective and assertive style, collectively offer scholars in the social sciences and humanities a valiant and neatly paved multilateral approach to the concept of development in post-colonial Africa, with the latter’s rich and ever emerging cultural undercurrents as a pathfinder. With a scan of both past and present-day African experiences that would serve as indicators for the future, the collection is an enriching guide to the issues that revolve around the stagnation in the development of the African continent over three quarters of a century post-colonially, and will, therefore, be of interest to both scholars and students of African studies and development studies, stakeholders of African development, and policy-makers.