Fellows 2023

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town

Resident at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

June 2023

Research topic at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften:

»Incompleteness, Mobility and Conviviality«

Project outline:

Central to my current research and the four lectures of the Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2023 is an invitation to take incompleteness seriously in how we imagine, relate to and seek to understand a world in perpetual motion. How would we frame our curiosities and conversations about processes, relationships and phenomena with an understanding of the universality of incompleteness and mobility? The lectures draw inspiration from popular ideas of personhood and agency in Africa: »Decolonialisation: Incompleteness and Convivial Scholarship« (05 June 2023), »Representing Diasporas as Incompleteness in Motion« (12 June 2023), »ICTs as Juju: African Inspirations« (19. June 2023), »Citizenship, Incompleteness and Mobility: Amos Tutuola’s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts« (26. June 2023). (Francis B. Nyamnjoh)

Research partner:

Francis Nyamnjoh follows the invitation of the Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. During his stay at the Forschungskolleg, he will give the Ad.E. Jensen Memorial Lecture 2023 at Goethe University.

Scholarly profile of Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Francis Nyamnjoh has been a professor of anthropolgy at the University of Cape Town since 2009. Previously, he served as Head of Publications at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). His work has been awarded many prizes, and he is a fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Sciences, the African Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Science of South Africa and College of Fellows of the University of Cape Town. He chairs the Academic Advisory Board of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) since 2019.

Website:
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Selected publications:

Incompleteness: Donald Trump, Populism and Citizenship, Langaa RPCIG 2022.
The Rational Consumer: Bad for Business and Politics. Democracy at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture, Langaa RPCIG 2018.
(ed.) Eating and Being Eaten: Cannibalism as Food for Thought, Langaa RPCIG 2018.
Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds, Langaa RPCIG 2017.
#RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa, Langaa RPCIG 2016.
»C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme«: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d'Ivoire, Langaa RPCIG 2015.
Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa, Codesria Books 2006.
Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging, Zed Books 2005.

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Scholarly profile of Francis B. Nyamnjoh

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