This book draws on the perspectives of non-migrants and urban youth in Bamenda, in the Northwest region of Cameroon, as well as on the views of Cameroonian migr

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Africa, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and

The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people

Mobility studies emerged from a postmodern moment in which global ‘flows’ of capital, people and objects were increasingly noted and celebrated. Within this

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The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy