LEADER 03398nam 2200541 450 001 9910829079103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-762-37-7 035 $a(CKB)3710000000431523 035 $a(EBL)2068777 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001535389 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11995446 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001535389 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11498327 035 $a(PQKB)10019681 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2068777 035 $a(OCoLC)913500503 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse48306 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2068777 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11066730 035 $a(PPN)198665768 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000431523 100 $a20150629h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAfrican modernities and mobilities $ean historical ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008 /$fGam Nkwi 210 1$aBamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :$cLangaa RPCIG,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (434 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-762-72-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aForeword / by Jean-Pierre Warnier -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction : theory and progress of Kfaang -- Background and methodology -- Kom in global communication ecology, c.1800-c.2008b -- Roads, mobility and Kfaang, c.1928-1998 -- Motor vehicle (Afue'm A Kfaang) -- Church, Christianity and Kfaang in Kom (Ndo Fiyini Ni Iwo Fiyini Kfaang) -- School, schooling and literacy (ndogwali kfaang) 1928 to c.1980 -- Letters and letter writers (Ghelii-Do Gwa-Ali Kfaang) -- Plantations, coast (Itiini Kfaang), Bushfallers and returned migrants -- Ex-service men, (Ghiili-I-Wong-I-Kfaang) 1914-1946 -- Elite women (Ghii'ki Kfaang) : women and newness in colonial and post-colonial Kom, Cameroon since c.1930's -- From foot messengers to text messengers c.1800-1998 : change and continuity of Kfaang men -- Mobility and encounters with different worlds -- Conclusion : Kom identity as work in progress. 330 $aIn this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what it has meant to be and belong in Kom- an ethnic community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon - since 1800, he explores the discourses and practices of kfaang as central to any understanding of mobility and modernity in Kom, Cameroon and Africa at large. The book unveils the emic understanding of modernity through the history and ethnography of kfaang and its technologies and illustrates how these terminologies were conceived and perceived by the Kom people in their social and physical mobilities. It documents and analyzes the historical processes involved in bringing about and making kfaang a defining feature of everyday life in Kom and among Kom subjects. 606 $aEthnology$zCameroon 615 0$aEthnology 676 $a967.11 700 $aNkwi$b Gam$01628336 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910829079103321 996 $aAfrican modernities and mobilities$93965430 997 $aUNINA