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SUMMARY:Fiction and Reality of Mobility in Africa - Francis B Nyamnjoh\, U
 niversity of Cape Town
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:This talk takes a critical look at dominant approaches to stud
 ying and relating to mobile Africans. Nationals\, citizens and locals in c
 ommunities targeted by mobile Africans are instinctively expected to close
  ranks and fight off the influx of Africans perceived to bode little but i
 nconvenience and backwardness. If and when Africans are allowed in\, empha
 sis is on the needs\, priorities and convenience of their reluctant hosts\
 , who tend to go for the wealthy\, the highly professionally skilled\, and
  the culturally bleached\, even at the risk of accusations of capital flig
 ht and brain drain. The talk demonstrates how to marry ethnography and fic
 tion to study African mobility.\n\nFrancis B. Nyamnjoh holds a PhD (1990)\
 , from the University of Leicester\, UK. He joined the University of Cape 
 Town in August 2009 as Professor of Social Anthropology from the Council f
 or the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)\, Dakar
 \, Senegal\, where he served as Head of Publications from July 2003 to Jul
 y 2009. He has taught sociology\, anthropology and communication studies a
 t universities in Cameroon and Botswana. He is a B2 rated Professor and Re
 searcher by the South African National Research Foundation (NRF) since 201
 0\, a Fellow of the Cameroon Academy of Science since August 2011\, and Ch
 air of the Editorial Board of the South African Human Sciences Research Co
 uncil (HSRC) Press since January 2011. Dr Nyamnjoh has published widely on
  globalisation\, citizenship\, media and the politics of identity in Afric
 a. He has also published seven ethnographic novels.\n\nThis event will be 
 followed by a reception\n
LOCATION:Seminar Rooms SG1 and SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road
 \, Cambridge
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