Walter Nkwi Gam
Universitair docent
- Naam
- Dr. W. Nkwi Gam
- Telefoon
- 071 5272322
- w.nkwi.gam@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Walter Nkwi Gam is universitair docent bij het Instituut voor Geschiedenis.
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Walter Nkwi Gam is universitair docent bij het Instituut voor Geschiedenis. Zijn onderzoeksinteresses beslaan een zeer breed spectrum, waaronder migratie, Afrikaanse culturele en sociale geschiedenis, de relatie tussen technologie, communicatie en samenleving, Afrikaanse sociaal-politieke en conflicthistorie, globale en imperiale geschiedenis, hedendaagse technologiegeschiedenis in Afrika en communicatiestudies. Verder houdt hij zich bezig met arbeidsgeschiedenis onder het kolonialisme, vrouwen- en genderkwesties en bovenal politieke economie.
Meer informatie is beschikbaar op de Engelstalige profielpagina.
Universitair docent
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Institute for History
- Geschiedenis van Afrika en de Amerika's
- Nkwi W.G. (2025), Anatomy of Terrorist Threats and Vulnerabilities in Central Africa. In: Gunaratna R. & Okereke C.N.E. (red.), Palgrave Handbook of Terrorism in Africa. London: Palgrave. 21-57.
- Nkwi W.G. (2025), Understanding Gender in Kom through Visual Culture: The Case of Afo-a-Kom Trio. In: Lundt B. & Nkrumah G. (red.), Gender in Visual Culture Africa-Europe: Making Gender Visible in Global Contexts. Berlin: Lit Verlag. 39-61.
- Ngalim A., Kam H.K. & Nkwi G.W. (2025), Ba-Menda (City) since the Late c.1450:An Historical Geography Approach. In: Ngalim A., Kam H.K. & Nkwi W.G. (red.), Alternative Narratives in the History and Societies of the Bamenda Grassfields. Quebec: Generis Publishing. 32-65.
- Ngalim A., Kam H.K. & Nkwi G.W. (red.) (2025), Alternative Narratives in the History and Societies of the Bamenda Grassfields. Quebec: Generis Publishing.
- Nkwi W.G. (2025), The “Holy Phallus” in the Church Compound: From Marginality to Emancipation and Pregnancy in Roman Catholic Mission Compound, Njinikom, Northwest Cameroon, 1920-1961. In: Lili K.G. & Valere E.O.M. (red.), Geohistoire et didactique du fait religeux en Afrique contemporaine (XIXe-XXIe Siecle.. Paris: L'hammartan. 20-48.
- Wit S. de, Nkwi Gam W., Mboti N. & Krijns J.M.P. 23 november 2024, Nyasha Mboti on Apartheid Studies: a new interdisciplinary framework. LUALA Beats [podcast].
- Nkwi W.G. (2024), Print Media, Memories and History of Football in Erstwhile West Cameroon, 1961-1969. In: Akpan U.S. (red.), Discourses in Sport Communication in Africa and the African Diaspora. London: Routledge. 102-119.
- Nkwi W.G. (2024), Old people as Active Agents in Social Change in Cameroon: The Example of Traders and Porters in Kom, Cameroon. In: Kah H.K. & Lundt B. (red.), Old Age, Gender, Social Security in Africa and Europe: History and Case Studies. Lit Verlag: Berlin. 17-48.
- NkwiW.G. (2024) Review of A History of West Africa by Toyin Falola, A History West Africa . Bespreking van: (2024). London: Routledge II(1): 192-194.
- Nkwi Gam W. (2023), Constitution-making without constitutionalism: the travails of making of the 1961 and 1996 constitutions in Cameroon, African Journal of Social Sciences: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences 14(2): 35-58.
- Nkwi Gam W. & Walker-Said C. (2022), Female mobility and the specter of prostitution in the British and French Cameroons, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 55(2): 161-182.
- Nkwi Gam W. (6 november 2022), Game of Thrones-achtige toestanden in Kameroen: president al 40 jaar aan de macht. Algemeen Dagblad.
- Nkwi Gam W. (2021), Singing Our Unsung Heroes: (Re) Membering Manu Dibango, Celebrating Cameroon Music. Mankon, Bamenda: Langaa.
- Nkwi Gam W. & Bruijn M.E. de (2014), ‘‘Human Telephone Lines’’: Flag Post Mail Relay Runners in British Southern Cameroon (1916–1955) and the Establishment of a Modern Communications Network, International Review of Social History 59(22): 211–235.
- Bruijn M.E. de & Nkwi Gam W. (2013), Life is so Summarised: Society’s Memory in the Digital Age in Africa. In: Wallace M., Barringer T. & Damen J. (red.), Dis/Connects. African Studies in the Digital Age. Leiden: Brill.