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vii About the Author Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni is also the Director of the African Art and Handicraft Environmental Management Institute – AFHEMI KINI FOUNDATION – and Curator of the AFHEMI KINI FOUNDATION MUSEUM. The AFHEMI KINI FOUNDATION is an international NGO registered officially by the Cameroon Ministry of Territorial Administration in 1997. This NGO has evolved into various sub-agencies like the AFHEMI 4E-Consultancy whose principal objectives are Environmental Education and Preservation, Environmental Enhancement, Eco-Tourism Promotion and Cultural Research and Enhancement, Entertainment and Hospitality Management. The AFHEMI KINI FOUNDATION MUSEUM which was founded in 1990 and officially inaugurated and opened to the public on 20th October 1999 by the Cameroon Ministry of Culture has been playing these various roles through the visual anthropological and performing arts support systems put at the disposal of the Cameroonian and international public. The AFHEMI NGO through the AFHEMI 4E-CONSULTANCY and MUSEUM, have been working tirelessly for the sensitisation and education of the public on the skills and techniques of managing and enhancing the growth and preservation of the natural and socio-cultural environment for the ongoing sustainable management of the natural and cultural heritage of the various ethnicities of Cameroon and Africa. It has engaged in various environmental and cultural researches and workshops on the peoples of Cameroon and Africa since its foundation. The study on Bakassi is just one of the many cultural and environmental researches carried on in various parts of Cameroon since 1990 till date. Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni is able to delve into and handle many aspects of the social and human sciences because of his rich and brilliant academic background. He was nicknamed the professionalstudent by his peers because of his avid reading ability and quest for knowledge. He earned B.A and M.A. degrees in Philosophy and Theology from the Pontifical Urbanian University of Rome, a Higher and a Post Graduate Diploma in the Social Sciences from the viii International University of Social Sciences Pro Deo, Rome, before proceeding to the University of Paris V Rene Descartes-Sorbonne, where he earned post graduate certificates in General Anthropology and Socio-Linguistics and an M.A. in Anthropology. He then went on to enrol at the University of Paris VII-Jussieu where he earned a Post Graduate Certificate in Economic History of Africa and an M.A, in History and was admitted for the Ph.D. in Anthropology. He enrolled in the Faculty of Political Science and International Law, at the University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne, where he graduated with Post Graduate Certificates and M.A. in Political Science and International Relations, LLM in International Comparative Law and a Ph.D. in Political Science. His Thesis for the Ph.D. in Anthropology was officially accepted pending public defence. After these brilliant academic achievements Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni underwent a thorough multidisciplinary training in various aspects and domains in applied social and management sciences. He served as a Research Assistant in the Laboratory of Legal and Political Anthropology of the University of Paris I-Pantheon Sorbonne, before proceeding to Latin America where he served as an intern Research Assistant to the Project Director of the Andean States Project of the Reforestation of the Andes and the Amazon (Colombia, Ecuador and Peru), sponsored by the Bank of the American States. He also served for many years as the President of the African and Malagasy Students Cultural and Sportive Association of France. On returning to Cameroon he was trained by CHP. International in Cross-Cultural Training and in Small Project Management in the American Peace Corps Training Centre and served as the CrossCulture Coordinator and Home-Stay Trainer of the Peace Corps Programme on Development in Education, Health, Water-Sanitation, Fisheries and Agro-Forestry, for Cameroon, Central Africa and Chad. He was later employed and Trained in Public Diplomacy by the American State Department for the American Embassy in Cameroon where he served as Cultural Affairs Assistant. During all these commitments Fongot Kinni also found time to serve his country as part time lecturer at various State and Private Universities – Ngaoundere, Buea, Douala, Bamenda BUST, before settling as a full time lecturer at the University of Buea. [44.197.113.64] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 08:06 GMT) ix Fongot Kini-Yen Kinni is a prolific researcher, writer, designer, artist, musician, philosopher and poet, who is widely travelled in Africa and the world. Currently he is a Visiting Lecturer at the Aalto University Helsinki School of Economics where...