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BRIEF EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND<\/strong>
\nWalter Gam Nkwi was the first batch of the University of Buea, Cameroon where he obtained his BA and MA certificates. He obtained his PhD in the University of Leiden<\/p>\n

RESEARCH INTEREST AREA<\/strong>
\nSocial History and Cultural History, History of Science and Technology in Africa from the Pre-colonial times<\/p>\n

MASTER DESSERTATIONS SUPERVISED<\/strong>
\nI have supervised 3 (Three) MA students:<\/p>\n

1). \u201cNgie Female Migration to Coastal Cameroon, 1946-2005\u201d by Cho Emilia Abirabe Njenwi. M.A. Thesis Higher Teachers\u2019 Training College, Bamenda, Cameroon<\/p>\n

2). \u201cSchism in the Baptist Church in Kom, Cameroon\u201d by Killian Ngong, M.A. Thesis Higher Teachers\u2019 Training College, Bamenda, Cameroon<\/p>\n

3) \u201cThe history of Road Construction in the British Southern Cameroon: The Case of the Bamenda Ring Road, 1922-1955\u201d by Rukayatu Fanyuy<\/p>\n

PhD THESES SUPERVISED<\/strong>
\nNone<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong>
\nBOOKS:<\/strong>
\n1)Voicing the Voiceless: Contributions To Filling Gaps in Cameroon History, 1958-2009. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research and Common Initiative Publishing House, 2010. (ISBN 978-9956-616-40-4)<\/p>\n

2) Sons and Daughters of the Soil: Land and Boundary Conflicts in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, 1955-2005. Bamenda, Mankon: Langaa Research and Common Initiative Publishing House, 2011. (ISBN: 9789956578924 (216pages)<\/p>\n

3) Kfaang and its Technologies: Towards a Social History of Mobility in Kom, Cameroon, 1928-1998. Leiden, The Netherlands: ASC Publications, 2011. (ISBN 978-90-5448-101-0) (219 pages)<\/p>\n

4) with Professors Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Piet Konings University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa: The 2005-2006 University Students Strike in Cameroon (Bamenda, Mankon: Langaa Research and Common Initiative Publishing House, 2012. ISBN 978-9956-727-07-0) (335pages)<\/p>\n

5) African Modernities and Mobilities: An Ethnographic History of Kom, Cameroon, c.1800-2008. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research and Common Initiative Publishing House, 2015 (ISBN 9789956762729 (436 Pages)<\/p>\n

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:<\/strong>
\n6) \u201cThe Anglophone Problem in Cameroon\u201d In Victor Julius Ngoh (ed.) Cameroon: From a Federal to a Unitary State, 1961-1972: A Critical Study. Limbe Cameroon: Design House 2004pp.185-209. ISBN:9956-26-030-<\/p>\n

7) \u201cFrom Village to National and Global Art: Whose art?\u201dIn E.S.D. Fomin and Foje W. John(eds.) Central Africa-Crises and Reconstruction(Dakar, CODESRIA, 2005):133-154. (ISBN: 2-88978-151-2)<\/p>\n

8) \u201cThe Anglophone Problem in Cameroon: Towards New Insights\u201d in Pierre Fandio and Mongi Madini (eds) Figures de L\u2019histoire et Imaginaire au Cameroun: Actors of History and Artistic Creativity in Cameroon. Paris: L, Harmattan, 2007, pp. 153-160 (ISBN: 9782296038387)<\/p>\n

9) \u201cThe Afo-a-Kom, Civil Society and Governance amongst the Kom and Her Neighbours, C.1865-1973\u201d in Tangie Fonchingong and John Germandze (eds) Cameroon: Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development (Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, 2009):201-215. (ISBN:978-9956-558-45-2)<\/p>\n

10) \u201cFrom Elitist to the voice of Commonality of Voice Communication: A Social History of Telephone in Buea, Cameroon\u201d in Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman (eds) Mobile phone: The New Talking drum of everyday Africa. Mankon, Bamenda and ASC, Leiden: Langaa Research and Publishing and Publishing CIG. 2009 Pp.52-68. (ISBN: 9789956558537)<\/p>\n

11)\u201cBimbia and its Environs in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade\u201d in Einer Neimi og Christine Smith-Simonsen (RED.) DET HJEMLIGE OG DET GLABSLE: FESTSKRIFT TIL RANDI RONNING BALSVIK Oslo,Norway: Akademisk Publisering, 2009pp.155-171. (9-788281520257)<\/p>\n

12) With Henry Kam Kah, \u201cColonial Boundaries and Disintegration: A Study of the Boki Nation of the Cross River Region of Cameroon and Nigeria\u201d In Daniel Abwa; Albert-Pascal Temgoua; E.S.D. Fomin and Willibroad Dze-Ngwa (eds)Boundaries and History in Africa: Issues in Conventional Boundaries and Ideological Frontiers-Festschrift in Honour of Verkijika G. Fanso. Mankon, Bamenda: Maryland Publishers, 2011).pp44-53 (ISBN: 9789952621099)<\/p>\n

13) \u201cPatriarchy Turned Upside Down: The Flight of the Royal Women of Kom, Cameroon from 1920 to the 1960s\u201dpp. 61-76 in Mirjam de Bruijn and Rijk van Dijke (eds) Social Connectivity in Africa ( London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) (ISBN: 9781137278012)<\/p>\n

14).\u201dFrom Foot Messengers to Text Messengers in Kom, Cameroon\u201d In Mirjam de Bruijn; Inge Brinkman and Francis. B. Nyamnjoh (eds), Side and Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa (Mankon Bamenda and ASC Leiden: Langaa Publishing Common Initiative Group, 2012). (978-9956-728-76-3)<\/p>\n

15) \u201cMungo: A River of Many Cultures In Cameroon History, C.1884-1969\u201dpp.77-95. In Fandio Pierre (ed) Popular Culture and Representations in Cameroon : the Journey across the Mungo River ( Kansas City, MO: Miraclaire Publishers, 2013). ISBN-13:9780615873374<\/p>\n

16). \u201ccolonial Boundaries and the Disintegration: A study of the Boki Nation the Cross River Region of Cameroon and Nigeria\u201d pp.55-73 In Daniel Abwa; Albert \u2013Paschal Temgoua; ESD Fomin & Willibroad Dze-Ngwa (eds) Boundaries & History in Africa: Issues in Conventional Boundaries and Ideological Frontiers. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2013 (ISBN: 979-9956-791-01-9)<\/p>\n

17) \u201cThe Changing roles of Traditional Institutions (Bamenda Grassfields, Cameroon) in Conflict Management: a Historical perspective\u201d pp. 167-180 In Akanmu G. Adebayo, Jesse Benjamin and Brandon Lundy (eds) Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies:Global Perspectives (Boulder, Colorado:Lexington Books, 2014) (ISBN:976-0-7391-)<\/p>\n

18) With Mirjam de Bruijn, \u201cLife is so summarised\u2019: Society\u2019s memory in the digital age in Africa\u201d In Terry Barringer and Marion Wallace (eds) Africa in the Digital Age. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2014). (ISBN:9789004272309)<\/p>\n

19) \u201cShifting Identity towards Cameroon\u2019s National Football Squad: Indomitable Lions to Tamed Lambs\u201d pp.155-164 In Chuku Onwumekili and Gerard Akindes (eds) Identity, Football and Nation in African Football: Fans, Community and Clubs (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014),.ISBN-9781137355805<\/p>\n

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS<\/strong>
\n20) \u201cThe Political Activities of Anlu in the British Southern Cameroons Politics,1958-1961:The case of Kom Fondom\u201d Epasa moto: A Bilingual Journal of Arts, Letters and the Humanities, University of Buea, Vol.1, No 6 (2003): 154-175<\/p>\n

21)\u201cElites, Ethno-regional Competition in Cameroon, and the Southwest Elites Association (SWELA), 1991-1997\u201dAfrican Study Monographs, Vol.27, and No.3 (2006):123-143. (ISSN: 0285-1601)<\/p>\n

22). \u201cFolk-Songs and History amongst the Kom of Northwest Cameroon: The Pre-colonial and Post Colonial Periods\u201d Humanities Review Journal, Vol.6 (2006):62-76. (ISSN:008675-754)<\/p>\n

23)\u201cThe Dilemma of Civil Society in Cameroon Since 1990: Which way forward?\u201d African Journal of International Affairs, Vol.9, Nos.1&2(2006):91-106. (ISSN: 0850-7902)<\/p>\n

24) \u201cBoundary Conflicts in Africa: The Case of Bambili and Babanki-Tungoh, of Northwest Cameroon, c.1955-1998\u201d Journal of Applied Social Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, vol.6,nos.1and 2 (2007):6-41<\/p>\n

25) \u201cThe Voice of the Voiceless\u201d: Telephone and Telephone Operators in Anglophone Cameroon. epasa moto: A Bilingual Journal of arts, Letters and the Humanities, University of Buea, vol.3, no.2 (December 2008) :187-206.<\/p>\n

26) \u201cFootball and Politics of Belonging in Cameroon\u201d Journal of Applied Social Science: A Multidisciplinary Journal of the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, vol.8, nos.1 and 2(2009):125-155.<\/p>\n

27) With Martin Sango Ndeh and Henry Kam Kah, \u201cPolitical Pluralism and Violence in Cameroon: The Experience of the 1990s\u201d. African Journal of Social Sciences, vol.1, No.3 (2010): 121-138<\/p>\n

28) \u201cRoad construction in the Cameroons province under the eye of a colonial officer, 1922-1947: Historical Critique of the colonial agenda\u201d Tropical Focus: The International Journal Series on Tropical Issues, Vol.11, No.3 (2010): 174-190. (ISSN: 0038-06682)<\/p>\n

29)\u201cTelephone Operators\u2019 Resistance to British Colonial Administration in the Cameroon Province\u201d Lagos Historical Review Journal, Vol. 10, (2010): 50-67 (ISSN:1596-5031)<\/p>\n

30) \u201cChristianity Encounter Royalty: The Fleeing women of Kom, Cameroon, c. 1920-c.1960s\u201dOrita: Ibadan Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. XLIII, No.1, (2011):111-130. (ISSN:0030-5596)<\/p>\n

31) \u201cThe Counting of Votes that Have Never Counted: Reading into the 2011 Presidential Election in Cameroon\u201d Online Cameroon Journal of Democracy and Human Rights, Vol.15, No. 2, (2011): 1-17. (Accessible on: http\/\/www.cjdhr.org)<\/p>\n

32)\u201cMotor Vehicle (afue\u2019m a Kfaang) in Kom, Cameroon: a social history of a technological artifact\u201d African Journal of Humanities and Society: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Humanities, Vol.12, No.2 (2011) pp.171-191 (ISSN: 0038-06682)<\/p>\n

33)With Henry Kam Kah and Martin Sangom Ndeh, \u201cCarriers and Porters as Pillars of British Colonial Administration\u201d African Journal of Social Sciences (AJOSS), Vol.3, No. 4 (2012): 143-164 (ISSN: 00235-8896)<\/p>\n

34)\u201cWestern Democracy In Africa as a failed Project: Which way Forward?\u201d East West Journal of Humanities, Vol.4 (2013): 111-125 (ISSN: 2074-6628)<\/p>\n

35) \u201cEtwi, Ntul, Nkwifoyn and Foyn: Sites, Objects and Human Beings in Conflict Resolution in Pre-colonial Kom (Cameroon)\u201d Conflict Study Quarterly, Babes-Bolyai University, Issue 3, (2013): 33-51 (ISSN:2285-7605)<\/p>\n

36)\u201cGender and Mobile Phone Communication in Cameroon\u201d Epasa Moto: A Bilingual Journal of Arts, Letters and the Humanities, University of Buea, Vol.1, No. 1 (June 2013): 77-96 (ISSN: 2304-6120)<\/p>\n

37)\u201cOne Finger Dip in Palm Oil Soils The Others: Activities and Consequences of Boko Haram in the Central and West Africa (Cameroon, Niger and Chad)\u201d African Journal for the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism, Vol.4, No.1 (June 2013): 41-63.<\/p>\n

38) \u201cToo much to carry: The perception and ramifications of Boko Haram\u2019s Activities on Cameroon\u201d Conflict Studies Quarterly, Issue 5, (2013): 67-87(ISSN:2285-7605)<\/p>\n

39) \u201cMigration and Encounters with Different Environments: The Case of \u201cCoast\u201d and salt wata Stories amongst the Kom of North West Cameroon\u201d KALIAO:Revue pluridisciplinaire de L\u2019Ecole Normale Superieure de Maroua (Cameroun), Volume.6, Numero 1, (2013):117-133<\/p>\n

40)\u201cDomestic Servants in the Labour History of Colonial Cameroon from Early 1930s to Early 1960s\u201d Ghana Social Science Journal, Volume 11, No1, (2014):77-103 (ISSN: 0855-4730)<\/p>\n

41) with Professor Richard Talla and Ignatius Song Womai,\u201cNegligent Attitude Towards Cameroonian Works of Art: The Need for Appropriate Attention\u201d The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Photon 125, (2014): 290-295 (ISJN: 8243-3265)<\/p>\n

42)\u201cPutting Nigeria Together: The Internationalisation of Boko Haram Conflict\u201d Conflict Study Quarterly, Issue 8, (2014):13-30 (ISSN: 2285-7605)<\/p>\n

43) \u201cCell phones, Migration and the ambiguity of borders in Bamenda Western Grassfields (Cameroon)\u201d Analele Unversitati Bucaresti, No8 (2014): 21-34, Faculty of Business and Administration, University of Bucarest, Republic of Roumania (ISSN: 1842-9327)<\/p>\n

44) With Mirjam de Bruijn,\u201cHuman Telephone Lines\u201d: Flag Post Mail Relay Runners in British Southern Cameroon, (1916-1955) and the Establishment of a Modern Communication Network\u201d International Review of Social History, Vol. 59, Supplement S22 (2014): 211-235 (ISBN:978-1-1075-2117-9)<\/p>\n

45)\u201cGhii\u2019ki Kfaang : Women, Modernity and Modernization In Colonial Kom, Cameroon, C.1920s-1961\u201d Cahiers Ivoriens d\u2019Etudes Comparees (CIEC), Vol.1, No.3 (2014): 39-56 (ISSN:2312-3729)<\/p>\n

46) \u201cGender, Sustainable Development and Mobile Phone Culture in Cameroon, c.2000-2010\u201d Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa, Volume 16, No.8, (2014).44-60 (ISSN:1520-5509)<\/p>\n

47) \u201cMen Stay at Home while women move out: New Trends of mobility to China amongst Bamenda Grassfield women (Cameroon)\u201d Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, Vol.2, Issue 1 (2014): 95-113 (ISSN: 1842-9327)<\/p>\n

48) \u201cGetting Smart and Scaling Through: Narcotics\/Prostitutes\u2019 Trafficking as Organized Crimes in Colonial and Post Colonial West Africa, c.1920-c.1998\u201d Conflict Study Quarterly, Issue 10, (2015): 1-27(ISSN 2285-7605; ISSN-L 2285-7605)<\/p>\n

49) \u201cA Disease of will among African states: The separatist agenda of Southern Cameroon National Council (SCNC), c. 1995-2004\u201d Conflict Study Quarterly, Issue 12 (2015): 3-18 (ISSN 2285-7605)<\/p>\n

50) \u201cPost-war Societies (Africa)\u201dpp, 3-19 In: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Berlin 2015 )<\/p>\n

51)\u201cCell Phone Repairers in Cameroon, 2000-2013\u201d.Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies, Vol. 1, Issue 1, (2015): 6-18 (ISSN:2161-8216),<\/p>\n

52). \u201c An African Perspective on Science and Technology\u201d African Viewpoint: Journal of the British Society For the History of Science, No. 98 (2012): 7-11 (ISSN: 1751-8261)<\/p>\n

53) \u201cFrom Letter Writers to Call Box Attendants: Communicating in a Marginal Community in Cameroon Grassfields, 1940-2000\u201dpp. 185-198. In Francis Nyamnjoh and Ingrid Brudvig (eds) Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives (Cape Town, South Africa: HRSC Press, 2016) (ISBN (Soft Copy: 978-0-7969-2516-9; ISBN PDF: 978-0-79-69-2531-2)<\/p>\n

54) \u201c Contesting the Margins of Modernity: New Women, Migration and Consumption in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon\u201d In Chinyere Ukpokolo (ed) Being and Becoming: Gender, Culture and Shifting Identity in Sub-Saharan Afriv Africa (Spears Media Press, 2016) (ISBN: 978-1-942876-07-6).<\/p>\n

55). \u201cThe Migration of Bamenda Grassfieklers (Cameroon) to Diasporic Spaces and Cultural Encounters: Post Colonialial
\nPeriod\u201d Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth, Vol. 3, No.1 (ISSN: 2308-5967) Forthcoming 22<\/p>\n

Walter Gam Nkwi holds a Ph.D in Social History\/ Social Anthropology from the Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands. He is teaching Social and Labour History at the Department of History, University of Buea, Cameroon. He read African and Cameroon history at the undergraduate and Post Graduate Levels at the University of Buea. Dr. Nkwi has a passion for social, indigenous conflict management, pre-cultural history and global labour historical issues of Africa. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History (IISH), Amsterdam from 1st September 2012 to 31st January 2013. Within this time Dr. Nkwi was opportune to visit the Institute of Conflict Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, where he lectured the Post Graduate students on pre-colonial mechanisms of conflict resolution in the Bamenda Grassfields of Northwest Cameroon, a lecture which was further published in the Conflict Studies Quartderly. In January 2015 Dr. Nkwi was made the Faculty Officer of Engineering and Technology, University of Buea, Cameroon.Dr Nkwi belongs to several intellectual associations which are the following: Member of Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA);South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development, (SEPHIS);Member of the Public Record Office, Archives, Kew Gardens, London; European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC);West African Research Association (WARA); International Society of Oral Literature in Africa (ISOLA); World Economic History Congress (WEHC);International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam (IISH);Fellow Community Member of the African Studies Center, (ASC) Leiden, The Netherlands since 2011;Member of the Board of Directors, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), vici scheme headed by Professor Dr. Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University; Association of Friends of the Archives and Antiquities of Cameroon ,(AFAAC); Research Network for Domestic Worker Rights (RN-DWR); Associacion Latinamericana de Estudios de Asia y Africa (ALADAA) with headquarters at Argentina; The Central Africa Research and Innovative Management Association (CARIMA);Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) since August 2014; British Society for the History of Science and Technology<\/p>\n

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