Francis Nyamnjoh

Francis B. Nyamnjoh holds a BA and an MA from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, and a PhD from the University of Leicester, UK. He joined the University of Cape Town in August 2009 as Professor of Social Anthropology from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), where he served as Head of Publications (2003–2009). He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon and Botswana. He is the recipient of many awards, including the "ASU African Hero 2013" of the African Students Union, Ohio University, USA, the Eko Prize for African Literature (2014); and of the ASAUK Fage & Oliver Prize for the best monograph (2018) for his book #RhodesMustFall. He is a B1-rated researcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF). He is a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science, the African Academy of Science and Academy of Science of South Africa. He is Chair of the Board of Langaa Research and Publishing Centre, Cameroon and was Chair of the Editorial Board of the South African Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Press (2011–2019). His scholarly books include Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (2006), C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire (2015), #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016), Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds (2017), Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought (2018), and The Rational Consumer: Bad for Business and Politics: Democracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture (2018).