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ii AUTHOR’S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Associate Professor and Head of Publications and Dissemination with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon, Botswana and South Africa, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana, where he was awarded the “Senior Arts Researcher of the Year” prize for 2003. His most recent books include Negotiating an Anglophone Identity (Brill, 2003), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books, 2004), Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (Zed Books, 2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (CODESRIA/ZED Books, 2006). Dr. Nyamnjoh has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa. He has published two other novels, Mind Searching (1991) and A Nose for Money (2006), a play, The Convert (2003), and Stories from Abakwa (2007). The Disillusioned African was first published in 1995 by Nooremac Press (Limbe, Cameroon). ...