Social Sciences and Cultural Studies for the Transformative Development of Postcolonial Africa

This open access edited volume brings together a multidisciplinary team of social scientists and cultural experts to investigate the concept of transformative development. Contributors discuss the transformative development vision with a focus on the social sciences and cultural studies. In doing so, they explore new development paradigms for Africa in the context of Covid-19, the role of myths in the psychological transformation of Africa, the correlation between discourses on cultures in Africa and the development of the continent, interactions between Indigenous knowledge and Western innovations, and new movements in the arts, handicrafts, and even postmodern Afropop.

Going beyond traditional emphases on economic and industrial progress, the authors gathered here ultimately develop new analytical frameworks that align with African realities and priorities in order to promote the decolonisation of the African minds, which remains a work in progress.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.

Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni is Professor of African Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. His research interests include media, identity, and elections in Africa; writing and publishing in Cameroon; and literary representations of the African peri-urban.

David Simo is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He is interested in postcolonial theory and in connections between cultural globalization and African literary history.

Esaïe Djomo is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Dschang, Cameroon. His interests center around audiovisual German culture in Cameroon.

Godfrey Tangwa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. His research interests center on epistemology, metaphysics, and bioethics as they relate to African philosophy.

Aloysius Ngefac is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Yaounde I, Cameroon. He is the founder and general coordinator of TRANG (Transformative Research and Networking Group). He has published several books related to his research interests in sociolinguistics, world Englishes, postcolonial pragmatics, creolistics, transformative research, and transformative development.