Jude Fokwang, PhD, is Executive Publisher at Spears Media Press, where he provides strategic, editorial, and creative leadership in amplifying voices from Africa and the African diaspora. In this role, he oversees the publishing programme, from acquisitions and editorial development to production, distribution, and long-term list strategy, ensuring that every title reflects a commitment to quality, integrity, and global relevance.

Alongside his publishing work, Dr. Fokwang is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Development Practice at Regis University, Denver, where he previously served as department chair. An author and ethnographic filmmaker who has held teaching positions in South Africa and Canada, his research focuses primarily on Cameroon and South Africa. His extensive fieldwork has produced publications across a broad range of topics, including African and decolonizing epistemologies, associational life, citizenship, gender, traditional leadership and democratization, development and globalization, and contemporary African youth identities.

He is the author of dozens of academic articles and several books, and the director of the award-winning ethnographic documentary film Something New in Old Town (2016). Actively engaged in the broader academic community, he serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Nordic Journal of African Studies and AFRICA: Journal of the International African Institute (London, UK). He also served on the editorial advisory board of Anthropology Southern Africa (2014–2024) and is currently President of the North American Association of Scholars on Cameroon (2024–2026).

His latest monograph is Cultivating Moral Citizenship: An Ethnography of Young People’s Associations, Gender, and Social Adulthood in the Cameroon Grasslands (2023).