Vakunta's Publications

A. Books: Hardcover & Paperback

 
Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English, Langaa, 2015

Stream of Consciousness: Poetics of the Universal, Langaa, 2015

Requiem pour Ongola en camfranglais: une poetique camerounaise, Langaa, 2015

Camfranglais: the Making of a New Language in Cameroonian Literature, Langaa, 2014

The Life and Times of a Cameroonian Icon: Tribute to Lapiro de Mbanga Ngata Man. Langaa, 2014

Speak Camfranglais pour un renouveau ongolais. Langaa, 2013

 
Nation at Risk: A Personal Narrative of the Cameroonian Crisis. i-Universe, 2012.

 
Nouvelles du Cameroun. Megallan, 2011

 
Les douleurs de la plume noire. Langaa, 2010

 
Martryrdom and Other Freedom Poems.  i-Universe, 2010

 
Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon.
Peter Lang, 2010

 
Nul n’a le monopole du français: deux poètes du Cameroon Anglophone. Langaa, 2010

 
Cam Tok and Other Poems from the Cradle.  AuthorHouse, 2010

 
Paradise of Idiots.  AuthorHouse,  2010

 
Cam Tok and Poems from the Cradle. AuthorHouse,  2010

 
Straddling the Mungo: A Book of Poems in English and French. Langaa, 2009

 
No Love Lost (Novel). Langaa, 2008

 
Majunga Tok: Poems in Pidgin English. Langaa, 2008

 
Ntarikon: Poetry for the Downtrodden. AuthorHouse, 2008

 
Grassfields Stories from Cameroon, Langaa, 2008

 
Cry My Beloved Africa: Essays on the Postcolonial Aura in Africa. Langaa, 2008

 
Green Rape: Poetry for the Environment. Langaa, 2008

 
Better English: Mind Your P’s & Q’s: A Guide to Effective Communication for English Second Language Speakers. Popcorn Press, 2007

 
 Lion Man and Other Stories. Africa World Press, 2005

 
A Lexicon of French and English Terms and Expressions Used in Parliamentary Proceedings. Duplico Press, 2004

 
Glossaire anglais-français des termes et expressions relatifs aux élections et aux techniques
d’observation des elections. Duplico Press, 2003

 
Lexique Français-Anglais des termes et expressions à l’usage des parlementaires. Pretoria, South Africa: Duplico Press, 2003

 
A French-English Lexicon of Terms and Expressions relating to Voting and
Election Monitoring. Duplico Press, 2000

 
B. Kindle  Books

Toyi-Toyi Poetry in Pidgin English from Southern Cameroons. Amazon Digital Services, 2015

Summum Bonum: Poetics of the Common Good. Amazon Digital Services, 2015

Translation Handbook Vol. 1: Lexique françcais-anglais des termes et expressions à l’usage des parlementaires. Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
Ngata Man: Tribute to a Fallen Hero (Lapiro de Mbanga). Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
From Pidgin to Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Cameroon. Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
Fossoyeurs des états bananiers. Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
Afritude ou tigritude. Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
Carnet d’un retour au pays natal en camfranglais. Amazon Digital Services, 2014

 
Pedagogical Aspects of Environmentalism. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
A Review of  Cameroonian Literature in English Vol.1. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Emerging Perspectives on the Translation of Hybridized Literatures. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Bate Besong: Why the Caged Bird Sings. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Nuts and Bolts of Second Language Acquisition. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Ntarikon:Where Rainstorms Gather. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Méditations poétiques en camfranglais. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in the Cameroonian Nouveau Roman. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Cry of the Environment. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Clando Republic and Other Scrolls. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
A l’école de la rue. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Yaounde: Autopsy of a Nation. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Audible Palimpsests in the Francophone African Novel. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Crossing the Threshold: Essays and Criticisms. Amazon Digital Services, 2013

 
Stories from the Grassfields of Cameroon. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
L’écrivain africain à la croisée des langues. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Rite of Passage and Other Stories. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Traduire ou Trahir? The Task of Translating Temps de Chien by Patrice Nganang. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
A Novel of Subversion: Code-switching in Temps de chien by Patrice Nganang. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Carton rouge à Paul Biya, President de la République du Cameroun: Lapiro’s Songs of Protest (Vol.1). Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Recueil de mots d’esprit. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Subversion of the Francophone  Novel: Bwamufication of French in Crépuscule des temps anciens by Nazi Boni. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Slanguage and Other Freedom Poems. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Fox Cities and Other Poems. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
La raison est nègre (poésie). Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Amour en deux langues (poésie). Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Poésie sous l’arbre à palabre d’Afrique. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Barrel of the Pen. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Divine Therapy: Inspirational Poetry. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
How Europe Underdeveloped My Homeland. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Brotherhood of the Jungle. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
The Art of the Township Bard. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
The African Writer at the Crossroads of Languages. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Son of the Soil. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Tales from My Folks. Amazon Digital Services, 2012

 
Mind your P’s and Q’s: Effective Communication Guide. Amazon Digital Services, 2012




C. Book Chapters


 
“The Language Question in Cameroon,” Eds. Francis B. Nyamnjoh and Richard Fonteh Akum. The Cameroon GCE Crisis: A Test of Anglophone Solidarity.  Bamenda: Langaa Research and Publishing CIG, 2008


 
“Un marriage de convenance,” Eds. Patrice Nganang et Peter Vakunta. Nouvelles du Cameroun. Magellan, 2011

 
“The Relevance of Environmental Education to the Outcomes-Based Education Curriculum         2005 inSouth African Schools,” Proceedings of the International Best of Both Worlds Conference. Pretoria: UNISA University Press, 1998 
 
D. Articles in Peer-Reviewed & Online Journals

Translation or Treason: On Translating the Third Code,” Translation Journal 17.4, 2013

 
Camfranglais: The Making of a New Language in Fouda’s Je Parle Camerounais and Fonkou’s Moi taximan,The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 44.2 (Fall 2013), 162-8

 
“Dissent as a Higher form of Patriotism,” Pambazuka 623 (2013)

 
“Aporia: The Manichaean Stigmatization of Africa,” Postnewsline. Retrieved November 21, 2013 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
“Aspects of Highly Effective Literary Translations: A Pedagogical Perspective,” Postnewsline. Retrieved October 6, 2013

 
“The Task of the Cameroonian Intellectual,” Postnewsline, Retrieved June3, 2013 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
Bate Besong: Why the Caged Bird Sings” Postnewsline, Retrieved May 21, 2013 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
“Fela’s Rebel Afrobeat: A Pedagogical Perspective,” Journal of African Literature Association 6.2 (Spring 2012) 1-11

 
“The Francophone Novel of Africa and the Caribbean: A Teacher’s Perspective,” Teaching African Literature Today, 29 (2011)

 
“Aporia: Ngugi’s Fatalistic Logic on the Position of Indigenous Languages in African Literature," Journal of African Literature Association 5.2 (2010):74-81

 
“The Francophone Writer at the Crossroads of Languages,” Chimères 31 (2010):1-14

 
“Critical Perspectives on the Francophone Novel of Africa and the Caribbean,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 42.1 (2009):163-178

 
“On Translating Camfranglais and Other Camerounismes,” META 53.4 (2009): 942-947

 
“Ramifications of Linguistic Innovation in African Literature: An Interview with Patrice Nganang,” Journal of African Literature Association 3.2 (2009): 205-212

 
“Poète francophone du Cameroun, Tropos 35(2009):58-65

 
“Pidgin: Cameroon’s Lingua Franca or Continental Creole?” Postnewsline. Retrieved August 2009 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
“In Praise of Camfranglais and Other Africanisms,” PanAfrican Visions 21. Retrieved April 2009 from http://www.panafricanvisions.com

 
“Crossing the Threshold of Poverty in Africa,”PanAfrican Visions 20, Retrieved March 2009 from http://www.panafricanvisions.com

 
“In Black and White: Reflections on Africa’s Success Story,” PanAfrican Visions 19, Retrieved February 2009 from http://www.panafricanvisions.com

“Poète francophone du Cameroun.” Tropos 35(2009):58-65.

“Literary Post-colonialism: Indigenization in the Francophone Text,” Tropos 34 (2008):66-89

 
“On the Importance of Translation: An Interview with Steven Stewart.” Retrieved December 10, 2008 from http://www.youtube.com/user/LiteraryTranslation

 
“Discourse on Gender in Africa,” PanAfrican Visions 18, Retrieved December 2008 from
http://www.panafricanvisions.com

 
“Balkanized Continent, Fragmented Nation-States,” PanAfrican Visions 15. RetrievedOctober 2008 from http://www.panafricanvisions.com

 
“Africa’s Tragedy of the Commons,” PanAfrican Visions 14. Retrieved September 2008 from
http://www.panafricanvisions.com

“Le problème de l’Afrique,” Codesria Bulletin 3-4(2006):34-35

 
 “On Translating Camfranglais and Other Camerounismes.” META 53.4 (2009): 942-947

 
“The Trouble with Africa.”  CODESRIA Bulletin 3-4 (2006): 32-34

E. Book Reviews

 
“Camfranglais: A Glossary of Common words, Phrases an Usages” by Jean-Paul Kouega (Muenchem: Lincom Europa, 2013), Journal of African Literature Association 8.1, Fall 2013

 
My Husband is a Cuckoo and Other Poems of My Youth “(2012) by Esther Lamnyam. Pambazuka 626

 
Fictionalizing Camfranglais: A Review of Moi Taximan by Gabriel Kuitche Fonkou, 2001. Postnewsline. Retrieved March 7, 2013 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
“Autopsy of a Malignant Nation-State: Revisiting Richard Joseph's Gaullist Africa: Cameroon under Ahmadu Ahidjo (1978)” Postnewsline. Retrieved June 1, 2013 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
Diagnosing the Leadership Abscess in Nigeria:  A Review of Achebe's An Image of Africa and the Trouble with Nigeria. 1983. Postnewsline. Retrieved December 7, 2012 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
Love under the Kola Nut tree by Esther Lamnyam (2009). Postnewsline. Retrieved August 19, 2012 from  http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
Paul Biya’s Machievellian Reign over Cameroon: A Review of Michel Roger Emvana’s Paul Biya: Les Secrets du Pouvoirs. Postnewsline. Retrieved  July 11, 2012 from http://www.postnewsline.com/peter-vakunta

 
Au Cameroun de Paul Biya by Fanny Pigeaud” Retrieved on October 23, 2011 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2011/10/book-review-au-cameroun-de-paul-biya-by-fanny-pigeaud-editions-karthala-2011-218-pp-276-paperback-eur-36-58-isbn978-28.html#tp

 
“Harold Scheub’s The Uncoiling Python: South African Storytellers and Resistance (2010)         Journal of African Literature Association 6.1, Fall 2011

 
“Long Walk Down Memory Lane: A Review of Nelson Mandela’s Conversations with Myself,” (2010).Retrieved March 20, 2011 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2011/03/long-walk-down-memory-lane-a-review-of-nelson-mandelas-conversations-with-myself-new-york-farrar-straus-and-giroux-2.html

 
“A Tale of Double Estrangement: A Review of   Benjamin Kwakye’s The Other Crucifix, Palapala Magazine, February 1, 2011.

 
“Mute Conversations: A Review of David Scheler’sCasting for Meteors (2011). Retrieved March 27, 2011 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2011/03/mute-conversations-a-review-of-david-schelers-casting-for-meteors-georgetown-finishing-line-press-2011-25pp-paperbac.html

 
George Ayittey's Defeating Dictators: Fighting Tyranny in Africa and Around the World (2011) Retrieved October 29, 2011 from http://www.africanpost.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1233:book-review-george-ayitteys-defeating-dictators-&catid=55:individual&Itemid=150

 
“Bill F. Ndi’s Gods in the Ivory Tower: A Play,” Retrieved April 4, 2010 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2010/04/book-review-bill-f-ndi-gods-in-the-ivory-tower-a-play-bloomington.html

 
“Tale of Meteoric Rise to Power: A Review of Femi Ojo-Ade's The Obama Phenomenon: Change We Can! Essays and Poetry by Black Critics and Creative Artists,” (2010) Journal of African Literature Association 5.2, Fall 2010

 
“Toward an African Renaissance: A Review of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Something Torn and New. “ 
(2009) Retrieved July 21, 2010 from http://www.africanwriter.com/toward-an-african-renaissance-a-review-of-ngugi-wa-thiongos-something-torn-and-new


 
“Abdourahman A. Waberi. In the United States of Africa (Aux Etats Unis d’Afrique) (2006). Translation by David and Nicole Ball, Lincoln,” Journal of African Literature Association 4.1, Spring 2010

 
The Education of a British-Protected Child’” by Chinua Achebe (2009) Pambazuka 466 (2010)

 
Not Yet Damascus by Emmanuel Fru Doh,” Retrieved August 2009 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2009/08/book-review-not-yet-damascus-by-emmanuel-fru-doh-.html

 
The Travail of Dieudonné by Francis B. Nyamnjoh, (2008), Retrieved February 27, 2009 from http://allafrica.com/stories/200902270768.html

 
Camfranglais: quelle parlure? Etudes linguuistique et sociolinguistique par André-Marie Ntsobé, Edmond Biloa et George Echu. The Entrepreneur.  Retrieved December 17, 2009 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/12/book-review-nstob%C3%A9-andr%C3%A9marie-edmond-biloa-et-george-echu-le-camfranglaisquelle-parlure-etude-lingui.html#more

 
Etes-vous mariée à un psychopathe? par Nadine Bismuth. The Entrepreneur. Retrieved November 22, 2009 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/11/book-review-bismuth-nadine-etesvous-mari%C3%A9e-%C3%A0-un-psychopathe-.html

 
Gens fidèles ne font pas les nouvelles par Nadine Bismuth.The Entrepreneur. Retrieved October22,2009fromhttp://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/10/book-review-bismuth-nadine-fidelity-doesnt-make-the-news-les-gens-fid%C3%A8les-ne-font-pas-les-nouvelles-2001-translati.html

 
K’cracy, Trees in the Storm by Bill F. Ndi. The Entrepreneur. Retrieved August 13, 2009 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/08/book-review-kcracy-trees-in-the-storm-by-bill-f-ndi-published-by-langaa-research-publishing-cig-2008.html

 
Beware the Drives by Sammy Oke Akome. Postnewsline. Retrieved July 15, 2009 from
http://www.postnewsline.com/books/

 
Letters to Marion (and the coming Generations) by John N. Nkengasong. Postnewsline. Retrieved June 14, 2009 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2009/06/book-review-letters-to-marion-and-the-coming-generations-by-john-n-nkengasong-.html

 
The Travail of Dieudonné by Francis B. Nyamnjoh. Postnewsline, Retrieved February 27,
2009 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2009/02/book-review-1 html

 
Fields of Illusive Petals by Gahlia N. Gwangwa’a.  Panafrican Visions. Retrieved 18, December 2008 from http://www.panafricanvisions.com

 
Stories from Abakwa by Francis B. Nyamnjoh.
Retrieved April 24, 2007 from http://www.nyamnjoh.com/book Reviews/2007

 

 
F. Reviews of My Books

“Environmental Terrorism in Peter Wuteh Vakunta’s Green Rape,” by   Gamal Elgezeery. European Scientific Journal 10/32(2014):174-193

 

“A Review of Vakunta’s Lion Man and Other Tales by Emmanuel Ngwainmbi  in Folktales in Cameroon: From the Spoken Word to a Framework for Globalizing Afro-centric reasoning (2012).

 

“Language of literature: The African Francophone Novel: A review of ‘Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon by Ken Walibora Waliaula, Pambazuka 562(2011).

 
“Lament of a Son of the Soil: A Review of Peter Vakunta’s Paradise of Idiots: Poetry (2010) by David Scheler. Retrieved July 7, 2011 from http://www.amazon.com/review/R1VX14RGPM8N5X

           
“A Continent that Self-destructs: A Review of Martyrdom and Other Freedom Poems by Ben Kwakye. Retrieved August 5, 2011 from http://www.amazon.com/review/R3BR2QG37XB1S6

 
“The Clothes of Our Own Nakedness: A Review of  Ntarikon: Poetry for the Downtrodden” by Emmanuel Fru Doh. Retrieved November 23, 2010 from http://www.amazon.com/Ntarikon-Downtrodden-Peter-W-Vakunta/product-reviews/1434357678

 
Book Review: Lion Man and Other Stories” by Tande Dibussi. Retrieved on November 20, 2006 from http://www.dibussi.com/2006/11/book_review_the.html

 
G. Contributions to Poetry Anthologies

“Hearthstone,” Earth Love No.36 (2010):7

“Fox Cities,” Earth Love No.35 (2010):17

“Ostrich,” Earth Love: Poetry for the Environment 30 (2009):7

“Requiem for the Genuine Intellectual,” The Champagne Party Will End: Poems in  Honor of Bate Besong (2008):33

“Hausa Haiku on Winter in Madcity,”Wind Chill Factor: Translations of the Cold, (2008):36

“Cobweb,” Earth Love: Poetry for the Environment 29 (2008):4

“Elobi,” Earth Love No.28 (2008):9

“Whispers,” New Authors Journal 15.1(2008):14

 “Cobwebs,” Earth Love No.29 (2008):4

 “Winged Friends,” Earth Love No.28 (2008):9

“Cataclysms,” Earth Love: Poetry for the Environment 29 (2008):10

“First Nations,” New Authors Journal 14.1(2007):21

“Mosquito,” Earth Love No.25 (2007):20

“Green Rape,” Earth Love No.22 (2007):18

“Animal Beings,” Earth Love No.23 (2007):6

“Casket” Black Diaspora Feb/March (2006):61.

“Earth Poem,” Earth Love (2006):23-24

“Same Boat,” Black Diaspora Dec/Jan (2006):47

“Summum Bonum,” New Authors Journal 13.1(2006):11

“Pyrrhic Victory,” New Authors Journal 13.1(2006):11

“Masquerade,” Linkway33 (2006):40

“Kola Nut,” African Talking Drum 8.2 (2006):5

“Food for Thought,” African Talking Drum 8.3 (2006):6

“Camfire,” Linkway 39 (2005):37

“Tragedy of the Commons,” Earth Love No.16 (2005):23

“Animal Rights,” Earth Love No.16 (2005):24

“Brotherhood of the Jungle,” Offerings 12.1(2005):11

“The Schooled Mind,” New Authors Journal 11.1(2004):16

“Beauty in Nature,” Earth Love No.10 (2004):7

“Ugly Face of Food,” Offerings (2004):45

“Lost Generations,” Earth Love No.10 (2004):7

“Life Savers: Haiku,” Earth Love No.12 (2004):19

“The Creed,” Earth Love No.10 (2004):5

“Barrel of the Pen,” Linkway 37(2004):23

“Son of the Soil,” Earth Love No.10 (2004):12

“Vantage Point,” Offerings11.1 (2004):8

“Third Eye,” New Authors Journal 11.1(2004):16

“Penmanship,” Offerings10.2 (2003):50

“Animal Friends,” Earth Love No.7 (2003):6

“Grass: Haiku” Earth Love No.9 (2003):11

“Ozone” Earth Love No.9 (2003):16

“Words of Wisdom,” New Authors Journal No.3 (2003):12

“Quiet Peacemakers,” Offerings 10.1(2003):15

“Poetry,” Offerings 9.4(2002):14

“Twin Towers,” Linkway 28(2002):13

“One Man One Tree, “Earth Love No.5 (2002):11

“Ecotage,” Earth Love No.5 (2002):24

“African Big Five,” Linkway 27(2002):21

“Chameleons,” Different Horizons (2001):225

“The Tree,” Linkway 25 (2001):53

“African Time,” Meandering Paths (2001):128

“Time is Money,” Visions of Tomorrow (2001):201

“The Tree,” Reflections of Innocence (2001):100

“Grave Diggers,” Kotaz (2001):32

“Bitter Sweet Truth,” Kotaz (2001):32

“Perhaps,” Linkway 26 (2001):25

“Avalon Soweto,” Sincerely Yours (2000):284

“Witchcraft,” A Stream of Imaginings (2000):16

“Pandora’s Box,” Crossroads of the Century (2000):229

“Sanctimonious Hypocrite,” Deep Reflections (1999):19

“Draw a Round Circle,” Linkway 17 (1999):26

“Rapacious Appetite,” Linkway 16 (1999):39

“Knot with a Difference,” Herstoria 4.2 (1998):35

“Sunshine in My Heart,”Linkway 18(1999):43

 
H. Contributions to Short Story Anthologies

 
“Powder that Kills,” New Authors Journal 13.3(2006):31-32

 “The Initiation School,” New Authors Journal 8.3(2006):9-10

 “The Most Common Fiction Bloopers,” New Authors Journal 12.1(2005):28-30

“The Spell,” New Authors Journal 11.4(2004):34-36

“Witchcraft,” New Authors Journal 11.2(2004):31-32

“Lion Man,” New Authors Journal No.3 (2003):23-24

 “Rite of Passage,” New Authors Journal 8.2(2002):39-40

“Blood River,” Linkway 22(2000):30-31

“A Way Out,” Linkway 31(2000):8-10

I. Interviews

 
“Lapiro de Mbanga in His Own Words: An Interview with Dr. Peter Vakunta,” Retrieved August 2012 from http://www.postnewsline.com/2012/08/lapiro-de-mbanga-in-his-own-words-an-interview-with-dr-peter-vakunta.html

 
“Legalese as a New Literary Canon in African Literature: An Interview with Benjamin Kwakye,” Retrieved April 20, 2010 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2010/04/legalese-as-a-new-literary-canon-in-african-fiction.html

 
The Ramifications of Linguistic Innovation in African Literature: An Interview with Patrice Nganang,” Journal of African Literature Association 3.2, Fall 2009      

 
“The Pragmatics of Poetic Translation: Interview with Poetic Translator, David T. Scheler,” Retrieved August 2009 from http://www.entrepreneurnewsonline.com/2009/08/the-pragmatics-of-poetic-translation-interview-with-poettranslator-david-t-scheler.html




J. COLLOQUIA & SYMPOSIA

“Landscaping Multilingualism and Research in the Age of Globalization,” Paper presented at the University of Indianapolis Summer Research Institute, May 19, 2014

“The Task of Teaching the Translation of Hybrid Literatures,” Paper presented at the
Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Convention at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center, November 7-10, 2013



 
“Toward a Multidimensional Paradigm for Teaching Francophone Operational Cultures in Higher Education,” Paper presented at the 15th NCOLCTL Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 26-29, 2012


 
“Teaching Culture: What do I Know?” Paper presented at the Faculty Professional Development Colloquium at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey-California, December 19-23, 2011

 
“Seven Habits of Highly Effective Language Learners,” Paper presented at the Faculty Professional Development Colloquium at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey-California, July 5-19-23, 2010

 
Panel chair:  “Literature in Translation: the Task of Translating Embargoed Texts.” Panel at the 32nd American Literary Translators Association Conference in Pasadena, California, November 11-14, 2009

 
“Is this French? The Dilemma of Teaching Mercédès Fouda’s Je parle camerounais: pour un renouveau francofaune.” Paper presented at the 32nd American Literary Translators Association Conference in Pasadena, California, November 11-14, 2009

 
Panel chair: The Task of Translating Linguistic Innovation in Postcolonial African Literatures.” Panel at the 35th Annual African Literature Association Conference at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, April 15-19, 2009

 
“On Translating Indigenized Languages in Contemporary Francophone African Literature”, Paper presented at the 35th Annual African Literature Association Conference at the University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, April 15-19, 2009

 
“Orality through Literacy:  Narrative Techniques in the Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma”, Paper
presented at the 21st Annual Graduate Student Symposium organized by the Department of
French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 4-5, 2008

 
“The African Palimpsest: Translation in the Europhone African Text.” Paper presented at the 34th Annual African Literature Association (ALA) Conference at the Western Illinois University in Macomb, April 22-27, 2008

Translating Oral Narrative into Written Word
“Translating Oral Narrative into the Written Word”, Paper presented at the 34th Annual African Literature Association (ALA) Conference at the Western Illinois University in Macomb, April 22-27, 2008

 
“Literary Francophonie: Cultural Hybridity in the French African Text,” Paper presented at the 50th M/MLA Convention hosted by the Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 13-16, 2008

 
Panel chair: The Signifying Monkey: Challenges in Translating Indigenized and Hybridized Languages. Panel at the 31th ALTA Conference at the University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, October 15-18, 2008

 
“The Task of Translating Camfranglais and other Camerounismes,” Paper presented at the 31th ALTA Conference at the University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, October 15-18, 2008

 
“The Francophone Writer at the Crossroads of Languages”, Paper presented at the 31th ALTA Conference at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota, October 15-18, 2008

 
“Translation and Postcoloniality: Indigenization in the Francophone Text,” Paper presented at the 30th ALTA Conference at the University of Texas at Dallas, November 7-10, 2007

 
“Le mensonge héroïque dans la dramarturgie Cornéilienne,” Paper presented at the 17th Annual Graduate Student Symposium organized by the Department of French and Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 11-12, 2005

 

Le symbolisme religieux dans Gouverneurs de la rosée de Jacques Roumain, Paper presented at the Towards an Africa without Borders Conference, hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 8-10, 2004

 “Toward a Paradigm for Integrating Environmental Sustainability into Adult Basic Education and Training Programs (Abet): Case Study of South Africa,” Paper presented at the Middle
States African Studies Association (MSASA) Conference on Black Plague: Health, Population and Aids in the African Diaspora, hosted by the West Virginia State College Institute, May 3-5, 2001
 
 

K.  Instructional Videos on YouTube


Bamunka Made Easy, 2015

Les mois de l’année, 2014

Les jours de la semaine, 2014

Quarters in Bamunka, 2014

Hausa for Beginners, 2013

Habit of Highly Effective Translators, 2013

Pragmatics of Learning a Second Language, 2012

Un mariage de convenance, 2012

La raison est nègre, 2012

Bamunka Jumpstart, 2012
 
Le sophisme senghorien, 2012

Hausa Haiku, 2012

Seven Strategies for Mastering Target Language Grammar, 2012

Seven Strategies for Mastering Foreign Language Vocabulary, 2012

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Listeners, 2012

Seven Habits of Highly Critical Readers, 2012

Stress Management Strategies for Foreign Language Learners, 2012

Days of the Week in Bamunka, 2012

Counting in Bamunka, 2012

Snow in Bamunka, 2012

Camfranglais around the Mungo, 2012

 

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