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Stereotyping Africa: Surprising Answers to Surprising Questions
Author(s): Emmanuel Fru Doh (Author)
- Publisher: Langaa RPCID
- Publication Date: 1 Nov. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 214 pages
- ISBN-10: 9956558958
- ISBN-13: 9789956558957
Book Description
Characteristically, Africans in any Western country are asked so many different questions about “Africa,” as Westerners love to refer to the many countries that make up that huge continent, as if Africa were a single nation state. So one begins wondering why it is that Africans, on the other hand, do not refer to individual European countries as “Europe” simply, then the trends and consequences of stereotyping begin setting in just as one is getting used to being asked if Africa has a president, or if one can say something in African. It is some of these questions that Emmanuel Fru Doh has collected over the years and has attempted answering them in an effort to shed some light on a continent that is in many ways like the rest of the world, when not better, but which so many love to paint as dark, backward, chaotic, and pathetic.
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About the Author
Emmanuel Fm Doh, a native of Cameroon, holds a PhD from the University of Ibadan, lbadan, Nigeria. He taught at the University of Yaounde (E.N.S. Bambili) for almost a decadeùthe ’90’sùbefore leaving. He then had a brief stint as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota before joining the English Department at Century, a college within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System. He is author of Africa’s Political Wastelands: The Bastardization of Cameroon.
