Anthropologist
In Cultivating Moral Citizenship, ethnographer, Jude Fokwang unpacks the meanings, mechanisms and processes through which young people in an inner city of the West African nation of Cameroon respond to local and global challenges as they seek to position themselves as social adults.
The subject of polygamy often evokes mixed sentiments and sometimes outright rage from opponents who hold that polygynous marriages are patriarchal schemes designed to gratify men at the expense of women.
In recent times, Africa’s cities and towns have experienced an explosion of Pentecostal fervour as more and more “men of God” invest in the business of saving souls or peddling the shibboleth that divine favour is best measured by the size of one’s material endowments.
In Faith, Power and Family, Walker-Said details Christianity’s role in reconfiguring African marriage and family-building among French Cameroonians in the southern forest, coastal zones and the western Grassfields.
The Q&A of Something New in Old Town hosted by Deep in the Heart Film Festival and Waco Cultural Arts Festival in discussion with filmmaker, Jude Fokwang