PUBLICATIONS


**BOOKS:

(i) 1991 Mind Searching. (Critical Satirical Essay (novel) on Cameroonian Society). Kucena Damian Nigeria Ltd. 158 pages.

(ii) 1995 The Disillusioned African (Critical Essay on the predicament of present-day Africa). Nooremac Press Cameroon. 156 pages.

(iii) 1996 The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity. Nooremac Press Cameroon. 288 pages.

(iv) 1997 (in collaboration with Prof. Paul Nchoji Nkwi) edited Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future. ASC/ICASSRT: Yaounde. 334 pages.

**STUDIES:

(i) 1996 Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon, funded and published by the Friedrich-Ebert Foundation Cameroon. 181 pages.

(ii) 2000 Media and Democratisation in Africa in the 1990s, currently under consideration for publication by James Currey & International African Institute, Oxford.

**CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:

(i) 1993 "La Responsabilité des Médias dans le processus de la démocratisation au Cameroun" in: Le Rôle des Medias dans le Processus Démocratique au Cameroun by Frederich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Yaounde

(ii) 1993 "Preface" in: GOBATA, R., (author), The Past Tense of Shit (Book one): Contribution of an Uncompromising Critic to the Democratic Process in Cameroon. Limbe: Nooremac. (pp. 1-4).

(iii) 1995 "Communication Research and Sustainable Development in Africa: The Need for a Cultural Perspective" in: Charles Okigbo (ed.) Media and Sustainable Development ACCE: Nairobi. (pp.434-461).

(iv) 1996 "Media, Tribalism and Democracy in Cameroon" in: Fabien Eboussi Boulaga (ed.) La Democratie à l'Epreuve du Tribalisme. GERDDES-Fondation Friedrich-Ebert: Yaounde. (pp.59-80).

(v) 1996 "The English Language Media and the Exigency of Conviviality" in: AGIREC (ed.), Cameroun: Pluralisme Culturel et Convivialité. Edition Nouvelle du Sud: Paris. (pp. 101-117).

(vi) 1997 "Anglophone Liberation Journalism and National Deconstruction in Cameroon" in: Paul Nchoji Nkwi & Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds.) Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future. ASC/ICASSRT: Yaounde. (pp.67-78).

(vii) 1997 (with P.N. Nkwi) "Introduction: Cameroon Regional Balance Policy and National Integration: Food for an Uncertain Future" in: Paul Nchoji Nkwi & Francis B. Nyamnjoh (eds.) Regional Balance and National Integration in Cameroon: Lessons Learned and the Uncertain Future. ASC/ICASSRT: Yaounde. (pp.8-16).

(viii) 1997 "The Politics of Development: Modernity, Power Elites and Popular Disillusionment in Africa" in: Jan Servaes & Rico Lie (eds.) Media & Politics in Transition: Cultural Identity in the Age of Globalization. ACCO Publishers: Leuven (Belgium) (pp.195-212).

(ix) 1998 "Indigenous Means of Communication in Cameroon" in: Terrefe Ras-Work (ed.) Tam Tam to Internet. Betam Communications & Mafube Publishing: Johannesburg (South Africa) (pp. 42-57).

(x) 1999 "Media Pluralism and Civil Society in Emerging African Democracies: The Cameroonian Experience" in: Luke Uka Uche (ed.), Mass Communication, Democracy and Civil Society in Africa: International Perspectives. UNESCO-NATCOM: Lagos. (pp.317-338).

(xi) 1999 "West Africa: Unprofessional and Unethical Journalism" in: Michael Kunczik (ed.), Ethics in Journalism: A Reader on their Perception in the Third World. Friedrich Ebert Stiftung: Bonn. (pp. 31-81).

(xii) 2000 "Government-Press Relations in Multiparty Cameroon: Competing Interpretations of a Controversial Law" in: Ritchard Tamba M’Byo, Chuka Onwumechili, & R. Nwafo Nwanko (eds.), Press and Politics in Africa. The Edwin Mellen Press

**ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

(i) 1988 "The Last Laugh: Television in Cameroon" in: InterMedia. Vol.16 (1) (pp. 36-39).

(ii) 1989 "Broadcasting in Francophone Africa: Crusading for French Culture?" in: Gazette. Vol. 42 (1988/89) (2) (pp. 81-92).

(iii) 1990 "How to 'kill' an underdeveloped Press: Lessons from Cameroon" in: Gazette. Vol. 46(1) (pp. 57-75).

(iv) 1993 "Contrôle de l'Information au Cameroun: Implications pour les Recherches en Communication" in: Afrika Spectrum vol. 28(1) (pp. 93-115).

(v) 1993 "The Video in Cameroon: Introduction and Current Uses" in: Frequence-Sud. No. 12 (pp. 101-118).

(vi) 1995 "Media and Political Pluralism in Cameroon" in: Media Development Vol. XLII(1) (pp.17-20).

(vii) 1996 "Protest Journalism as a Literary Genre: The Case of Anglophone Cameroon Journalism Today" in: Epasa Moto: Critical perspectives on Cameroon Writing Vol.1 No.3 (pp.350-357).

(viii) 1996 "Media and Multiparty politics in Transitional Cameroon"in: Nord-Sud Acktuell. Jahrgang X, Nr.4. pp.738-752.

(ix) 1996 "Dignité humaine et recherche en sciences sociales" in: Cahiers de L'UCAC No.1 pp. 83 - 94

(x) 1996 "Africa and the Information Superhighway: Silent Majorities in Search of a Footpath" in: Africa Media Review. Vol.10 No.2. pp.1-21.

(xi) 1996 (with Francis Wete & Tangie Fonchingong) "Media and Civil Society in Cameroon" in: Africa Media Review. Vol.10 No.3 pp.38-66.

(xii) 1997 "South Africa's Future: Culture, Communication, Development" in: Media Development. Vol. XLIV (1): (pp. 68-69).

(xiii) 1997 (with Piet Konings) "The Anglophone Problem in Cameroon" in: The Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 35(2):207-229.

(xiv) 1997 "Political Rumour in Cameroon" in: Cahiers de L'UCAC No.2 (pp. 93-105).

(xv) 1998 (with Mike Rowlands) "Elite Associations and the Politics of Belonging in Cameroon" in: Africa vol.68, No.3 (pp.320-337).

(xvi) 1998 "Media Ownership and Control in Cameroon: Constraints on Media Freedom" in: Media Development vol. XLV (4): (pp. 29-35).

(xvii) 1999 "Cameroon: A Country United by Ethnic Ambition and Difference" in: African Affairs vol. 98 (390): (pp.101-118).

(xviii) 1999 "African Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies in Africa: How to Make a Useful Difference" in: Critical Arts vol. 13 (1): (pp.15-39).

(xix) 1999 "ACCE Conference 1998" in: Media Development vol. XLVI (2): (pp. 66 - 68).

(xx) 1999 "Press Cartoons and Politics in Cameroon" in: International Journal of Comic Art vol.1 (2):(171:190).

(xxi) 1999 (with Peter Geschiere) "Witchcraft as an Issue in the 'Politics of Belonging': Democratization and Urban Migrants' Involvement with the Home Village" in: African Studies Review. Vol.41 (3):69-91 (December, 1998)

(xxii) 1999 "Africa and the Information Superhighway: The Need for Mitigated Euphoria" in: Ecquid Novi: Journal for Journalism in Southern Africa. Vol.20 (1):31-49

(xxiii) 2000 (with Peter Geschiere) "Capitalism and Autochthony: The Seesaw of Mobility and Belonging" in: "Millennium Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism" Public Culture 2000 eds. Jean and John Comaroff (Vol.12, No.2:423-452).

(xxiv) 2000 (with Piet Konings) "Construction and Deconstruction: Anglophones or Autochtones" in: The African Anthropologist. Vol.7(2):5-32.

**BOOK REVIEWS:

(i) 1989 Ritual, Power and Politics. By D.I. Kertzer in: Political Psychology. Vol. 10(4) (pp. 781-783).

(ii) 1998 Readings in African Popular Culture, edited by Karin Barber in: Media Development vol. XLV (4): (pp. 70-71).

(iii) 1999 Gender and Class in the Tea Estates of Cameroon, by Piet Konings in: Africa vol. 69 (1): (pp.165-166).

**ARTICLES IN NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES:

(i) 1991 "Cameroon: The Sorcery Mentality and Democracy" in: Cameroon Life. Vol.1(11):30-31; Vol.2(1):34.

(ii) 1991 "Public Service Broadcasting in Cameroon: Where I Differ with Minister Kontchou" in: Cameroon Post. No.90 November 20 - 27, 1991. (pp.6 & 13)

(iii) 1992 "The Press as Power of the Powerless" in: Cameroon Post. No.95 January 29 - February 4, 1992. (p.10)

(iv) 2000 "Paradies der Paradoxe: In Kamerun sichern Konflikte die Einheit" in: iz3w (informationszentrums 3. welt). July 2000, No.246 (pp.23-25)




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