Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development

Notes on Contributors

Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development vii Notes on Contributors James Arrey Abangma is senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of BueaCameroon . His research interest is in public policy. His is currently researching on African political systems and Government and politics in Cameroon. His latest publication is ‘Governance of organized anarchy in Public Universities in Cameroon: implications for Policy Management in the Bachelors-’ Masters’- PhD Programme’ Journal of International Politics and Development Studie, 2008. John Bobuin Gemandze is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Adminstration, University of Buea- Cameroon. The focus of his research is Public Policy and Development Studies. His most recent publication is ‘Public/Private Ownership: A Strategic Approach to Public Sector Reform in Francophone Africa: A case Study of Cameroon’. Tropical Focus 2008. Peter Fon Titanji is a senior lecturer and head of the Department of Educational Foundation, Faculty of Education, University of Buea-Cameroon. His areas of research include Management Capacity Building in Higher Education, Conditions of Service of Education Personnel, and Higher Education Policy Analysis. His most recent publication is ‘Education for all in Cameroon: What Principals need to Know and Do’, African Journal of Special Education, 2008. Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong holds a PhD in political science from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He was lecturer and pedagogic Adviser in the National School of Administration and Magistracy- Yaounde, Cameroon before joining the University of Buea-Cameroon in 1993. He headed that university’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration from 2005 to 2009 and he is currently a senior lecturer there. His area of research is comparative politics in which he has published articles in journals such as Africa Media Review, Journal of Third World Studies, Loyola Journal of Social Sciences and Africa Journal of International Affairs. His current research topics include Institutions, political parties and Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong & John Bobuin Gemandze viii participation in Cameroon, and Mobility and Biodiversity: A case study of the Tubah Upland Forest in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon. John W. Forje was educated at the Universities of Lund (Sweden), Hull and Salford (UK), receiving his Fil Kand, M.Soc.Sc: MA and PhD in Political Science and Science and Technology Policy. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Yaounde II, and visiting lecturer with the University of Buea. He is author of a number of books and articles, including Central Africa: Crises, Reform and Reconstruction, of which he is co-editor. Flavius Mayoa Mokake is PhD/Graduate student in the Department of History, University of Buea-Cameroon. His research areas include social and cultural history in which he worked on Street Children and Lumpen Youth in Africa. His current research is on the history of medicine in Anglophone Cameroon. Max Mumfih Ntangsi is a senior lecturer in the Department of Economics and Management, University of Buea-Cameroon. He is currently the Coordinator of the Short Courses Programme in the Faculty of Social and Management Sciences of the same University. He has several publications to his credit. His current research areas include development economics, international trade, health economics, agricultural economics, and remittances and development. Walter Gam NKwi is a lecturer and a PhD/Graduate student in the Department of History, University of Buea- Cameroon. His research interest is in social history in which he has published several articles, the latest of which is ‘The Voice of the Voiceless: Telephone and Telephone Operators in Anglophone Cameroon’ Epasa Moto, 2008. His current research topic is mobility, hierarchy and technology for Social Change among the Kom of Cameroon’s Grssfields. Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development ix Henry Kam Kah is a lecturer and graduate/PhD student in the Department of History, University of Buea, Cameroon. His research interests revolve around gender and cultural history. He has published articles on women as makers of history, salt as a priceless commodity in the Cross River Basin of Cameroon. His current research is on the Socio-economic considerations of the Reunification of Cameroon. Fondo Sikod is an associate professor of economics in Yaounde University II, Soa - Cameroon. His areas of research include, among others, governance, environment and health. He has published several journal articles and contributed chapters to many books. His latest publication is ‘Governance and Economic Growth in Cameroon,’ African Journal of Economic Policy, 2007. John Nde...