Ngambouk V Pemunta
Biographic Data
| ID | 672871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ngambouk V Pemunta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ngambouk V |
| FAMILY NAME | Pemunta |
| SIGNATURE | PEMUNTA N V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4505-1683 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The influence of traditional food consumption on Cameroonian immigrants’ perception of type 2 diabetes in Minnesota: An exploratory qualitative study
Purpose: This study explored how traditional food consumption shapes perceptions of type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk among nondiabetic Cameroonian immigrants residing in Minnesota, USA. The focus was on participants' dietary behaviors, lifestyle adaptations, and experiences with the U. S. healthcare system. Guided by an integrated theoretical framework-including the Health Belief Model (HBM), socioecological theory (SEM), risk/protective factors, and S…
Bamiléképhobia and the production of identity under authoritarianism in Cameroon
This article examines Bamiléképhobia as a historically produced and actively mobilized process of ethnic stigmatization and identity construction targeting the Bamileke in authoritarian, post-2018 Cameroon. Situated within debates on identity, belonging, and ethnicized governance in Africa, the study adopts a qualitative, interpretive, desk-based design grounded in historical analysis, critical discourse analysis, and elite profiling. It draws on…
Drivers of adolescent pregnancy in rural Zambia: A qualitative study in Kalabo District, Western Province
Adolescent pregnancy is a major public health issue in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Zambia. Its occurrence in rural areas is under-researched, and little is known about the factors driving it. This qualitative study explored the drivers of adolescent pregnancy in Kalabo District through 32 in-depth interviews with pregnant adolescents, parents, healthcare providers, traditional leaders, and marriage counsellors. Guided by the social ecologica…
Trapped by debt: An ethnographic study of medical indebtedness and hospital detention in the Fundong Health District, Cameroon
Background: This study investigates the structural and socio-cultural drivers of medical indebtedness and hospital detention due to unpaid healthcare bills in the Fundong Health District, Cameroon. It explores how poverty, institutional shortcomings, and cultural beliefs converge to exacerbate patients' financial vulnerability and delay access to care. Methods: A qualitative anthropological approach was employed between February and November 2022…
The Fight against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting among the Ejaghams of Cameroon: Kinks in the Legal Approach and Implications for Public Health Practice
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most prevalent harmful cultural practices against women and girls in many African countries. We identified reasons for the failure of the legal approach to stop FGC practice in the Ejagham region Southwest of Cameroon through multi-locale ethnographic fieldwork. The reasons revolve around the belief that FGM is useful for the reduction of sexual immorality among women, removal of sexual ambi…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian National Security, and human and food security in the Nile River Basin
For centuries and emboldened by colonial treaties, Egypt has enjoyed overwhelming hydro-hegemony in the (NBR) Nile Basin River region. However, Egyptian dominance over the NBR has been challenged by Ethiopia following her unilateral construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Using A qualitative, deductive approach based on multiple sources of evidence, this paper analyses the historical imbalance in the Nile colonial treaties that gave …
The Plight of Female Cameroonian Migrant Sex Workers in N’Djamena, Chad: A Case of Intersectionality
In most countries, sex-work is criminalized and frowned upon. This leads to human rights abuses, especially for migrant female sex workers. The burden is heavier on migrant female sex-workers whose gender and foreign citizenship intersect to produce a plethora of adverse health, social, and legal outcomes. This phenomenological study explores the intersectionality of individual factors leading to human rights abuses among migrant Cameroonian fema…
The bat meat chain and perceptions of the risk of contracting Ebola in the Mount Cameroon region
This study demonstrates that the complexity and nuances of gender, poverty and Ebola outcomes predispose some marginal groups to the risk of infection with zoonotic diseases. There is the need to improve public health intervention and health education among the rural masses in the Mount Cameroon region
Perceived effects of climate change on profit efficiency among small scale chili pepper marketers in Benue State, Nigeria
In the determination of the level of efficiency of an enterprise, the role of climate change cannot be overemphasized. However, some scholars are of the view that climate change might not really affect the level of efficiency of an enterprise due to its indirect effect on the performance of an enterprise. Understanding the perception of marketers of agricultural produce about climate change in agribusiness is paramount to sustain small scale ente…
Factors Impeding Social Service Delivery among the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon
Conservation organizations, missionaries and the State of Cameroon have put the indigenous hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy people of southeast Cameroon at the limelight of development interventions that often do not reflect their needs and aspirations. Despite these benevolent initiatives, the indigenous Baka Pygmy people have remained on the margins of Cameroonian society. This paper attempts to answer the question: Why has service delivery been chal…
Environmental conservation, tourism development and the dilemma of the indigenous Pygmy people in southeast Cameroon
This paper examines the implications of the paradox implicit in the conflation of Pygmies and other forest-based peoples (Bantu farmers) as a single identity group by conservationists and tourism developers. These actors share a hardened image and a single field view of the Pygmies as "people of the forest" that must paradoxically be evicted to give way for neoliberal development activities. The paper demonstrates that while Pygmies have diversif…
An Evaluation of European Union Development Aid to the Democratization Project in Cameroon
As a way of deepening democracy, the European Union (EU) has dedicated substantial financial and technical assistance to Cameroon’s civil society and election process. More than two decades after the adoption of multipartism, there is, however, the lack of a credible institutional framework for democratization in the country. This analysis of mainly primary sources draws on donor–recipient relations theory to provide a critical assessment of the …
Fortress conservation, wildlife legislation and the Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon
The indigenous Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon depend mainly on environmental incomes for their livelihoods, usually hunting and gathering and the sustainable use of their ecological systems. They are at the verge of profound political, socioeconomic, and environmental transformations orchestrated by modern state laws regulating hunting and international development actors and agencies whose development vision expressed through conservation of…
The paradox of petrodollar development: Chad's military diplomacy in regional and global security
This paper examines the Chadian government’s overwhelming preoccupation with state security, rather than individual security, as evidenced by its huge expenditure on arms rather than on poverty-alleviating development projects following the unprecedented influx of petrodollars in the years since production began in 2003. This overemphasis on state security demonstrates a mismatch between the availability of natural resource wealth and ongoing low…
Socio-Cultural Determinants of Infant Malnutrition in Cameroon
This study seeks to explore and explain the socio-cultural factors responsible for the incidence of infant malnutrition in Cameroon with particular emphasis on northern Cameroon where it is most accentuated. It combines quantitative data drawn from the 1991, 1998, 2004 and 2011 Cameroon Demographic and Health Surveys, as well as a literature review of publications by the WHO and UNICEF. This is further complemented with qualitative data from vari…
The 'Gendered Field' of Kaolinite Clay Production: Performance Characteristics among the Balengou
This article examines the 'gendered field' of kaolinite clay production and its integration into the local socio-cultural universe of the Balengou of the Western region of Cameroon. Kaolinite clay is produced and ingested mainly by women, especially during pregnancy so as to ensure that their children are born 'clean'. Used as a herbal additive, the clay is also believed to be imbued with sacred qualities and has a symbolic role in various commun…
The Fragility of the Liberal Peace Export to South Sudan: Formal Education Access as a Basis of a Liberal Peace Project
This study examines the disjuncture between the policy transposition of the Liberal Peace Project (LPP) in South Sudan from the country's local context. It underlines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare services reinforces political exclusion and exacerbates poor civic engagement among different ethnicities in the country causing a constant relapse to violence. The study combines a qualitative review of data from Afrobaromete…
The Social Epidemiology and Burden of Malaria in Bali Nyonga, Northwest Cameroon
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the anopheles mosquito that kills at least one million people in Sub-Saharan Africa every year, leading to human suffering and enormous economic loses. This paper examines the complex web of cultural, poor socio-economic conditions and environmental factors for the prevalence of malaria in Bali Nyonga. The study outlines and assesses the multiple notions of malaria causation with dirty environment (80.76…
Volume 10 (2014) | Issue 1
Volume 10, Issue 1 (2014), Journal:Journal of Human Security, Info:The Open Access Journal of Human Security brings together expertise from universities worldwide and facilitates communication and collaboration between researchers, practitioners and educators
Resistance to the Eradication of Female Circumcision and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Cameroon
This article examines resistance to the eradication of the ritual practice of female circumcision in the enclaves populated by the Ejagham people in Southwest Cameroon. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study shows how in the face of abject poverty and institutionalized state marginalization, resistance to opponents of female circumcision becomes a placemaking project. It demonstrates that the social arrangement sustaining female circumcision…
The governance of nature as development and the erasure of the Pygmies of Cameroon
Challenging Patriarchy: Trade, outward migration and the internationalization of Commercial sex among Bayang and Ejagham women in Southwest Cameroon
This paper documents the specific local and global socio-economic forces that led to the outward migration of Bayang and Ejagham women to work as commercial sex workers on the Cameroon-Nigeria border regions in the 1980s and 1990s. It demonstrates that these women's personal accumulation strategies are adaptative- drawing on time and space specific modes of capitalist accumulation and kinship systems of power. The intertwined nature of these form…
Experiencing Neoliberalism from Below: The Bakweri Confrontation of the State of Cameroon over the Privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation
This paper examines the conflict over the privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation between the government of Cameroon and the Bakweri tribe. It is set against the conflicting landscape and power fields of traditional, colonial and modern authority systems: a hallmark of the land tenure system in which the Bakweri find themselves today. This case study shows how local people are appropriating the western concepts of human and property…
Intersubjectivity and Power in Ethnographic Research
This paper discusses my perceived positionality in an ethnographic research project on the contentious issue of female circumcision in Southwest Cameroon. My bicultural identity as a Western‐trained, African anthropologist is associated with power because of my perceived alliance with the ‘Whiteman’ (western, rational, scientific knowledge) showing how the anti‐female circumcision campaigns based on discursive practices of mortality and the harmf…
Health and Development: HIV/Aids and the Double Appropriation of Human Security Discourse by Practitioners of Female Circumcision and Development NGOs in Cameroon
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate ethnographically that within the new institutional context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, development NGOs intervening in the fight against female circumcision by using the language of human security have instead produced a backlash marked by resistance and contestation. I argue that the issue of health security underpins the agenda of both the state and transnational stakeholders who use the 'modernist' languag…
Fortress conservation, wildlife legislation and the Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon
The indigenous Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon depend mainly on environmental incomes for their livelihoods, usually hunting and gathering and the sustainable use of their ecological systems. They are at the verge of profound political, socioeconomic, and environmental transformations orchestrated by modern state laws regulating hunting and international development actors and agencies whose development vision expressed through conservation of…
Factors Impeding Social Service Delivery among the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon
Conservation organizations, missionaries and the State of Cameroon have put the indigenous hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy people of southeast Cameroon at the limelight of development interventions that often do not reflect their needs and aspirations. Despite these benevolent initiatives, the indigenous Baka Pygmy people have remained on the margins of Cameroonian society. This paper attempts to answer the question: Why has service delivery been chal…
The governance of nature as development and the erasure of the Pygmies of Cameroon
Challenging Patriarchy: Trade, outward migration and the internationalization of Commercial sex among Bayang and Ejagham women in Southwest Cameroon
This paper documents the specific local and global socio-economic forces that led to the outward migration of Bayang and Ejagham women to work as commercial sex workers on the Cameroon-Nigeria border regions in the 1980s and 1990s. It demonstrates that these women's personal accumulation strategies are adaptative- drawing on time and space specific modes of capitalist accumulation and kinship systems of power. The intertwined nature of these form…
The Fragility of the Liberal Peace Export to South Sudan: Formal Education Access as a Basis of a Liberal Peace Project
This study examines the disjuncture between the policy transposition of the Liberal Peace Project (LPP) in South Sudan from the country's local context. It underlines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare services reinforces political exclusion and exacerbates poor civic engagement among different ethnicities in the country causing a constant relapse to violence. The study combines a qualitative review of data from Afrobaromete…
Experiencing Neoliberalism from Below: The Bakweri Confrontation of the State of Cameroon over the Privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation
This paper examines the conflict over the privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation between the government of Cameroon and the Bakweri tribe. It is set against the conflicting landscape and power fields of traditional, colonial and modern authority systems: a hallmark of the land tenure system in which the Bakweri find themselves today. This case study shows how local people are appropriating the western concepts of human and property…
Multiple identities: Gender, power and the production of anthropological knowledge
This article discusses my "outsider within" status in terms of gender, age, nationality, race and perceived positionality and alliance with the "Whiteman" (by virtue of my western educational status) during my fieldwork. My research centered on the contentious debate over female circumcision in Southwest Cameroon. It examines the gulf between perceived anti-female circumcision activism and the quest for anthropological knowledge through ethnograp…
Health and Development: HIV/Aids and the Double Appropriation of Human Security Discourse by Practitioners of Female Circumcision and Development NGOs in Cameroon
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate ethnographically that within the new institutional context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, development NGOs intervening in the fight against female circumcision by using the language of human security have instead produced a backlash marked by resistance and contestation. I argue that the issue of health security underpins the agenda of both the state and transnational stakeholders who use the 'modernist' languag…
Experiencing Neoliberalism from Below: The Bakweri Confrontation of the State of Cameroon over the Privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation
This paper examines the conflict over the privatisation of the Cameroon Development Corporation between the government of Cameroon and the Bakweri tribe. It is set against the conflicting landscape and power fields of traditional, colonial and modern authority systems: a hallmark of the land tenure system in which the Bakweri find themselves today. This case study shows how local people are appropriating the western concepts of human and property…
Intersubjectivity and Power in Ethnographic Research
This paper discusses my perceived positionality in an ethnographic research project on the contentious issue of female circumcision in Southwest Cameroon. My bicultural identity as a Western‐trained, African anthropologist is associated with power because of my perceived alliance with the ‘Whiteman’ (western, rational, scientific knowledge) showing how the anti‐female circumcision campaigns based on discursive practices of mortality and the harmf…
The governance of nature as development and the erasure of the Pygmies of Cameroon
Challenging Patriarchy: Trade, outward migration and the internationalization of Commercial sex among Bayang and Ejagham women in Southwest Cameroon
This paper documents the specific local and global socio-economic forces that led to the outward migration of Bayang and Ejagham women to work as commercial sex workers on the Cameroon-Nigeria border regions in the 1980s and 1990s. It demonstrates that these women's personal accumulation strategies are adaptative- drawing on time and space specific modes of capitalist accumulation and kinship systems of power. The intertwined nature of these form…
Resistance to the Eradication of Female Circumcision and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Cameroon
This article examines resistance to the eradication of the ritual practice of female circumcision in the enclaves populated by the Ejagham people in Southwest Cameroon. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this study shows how in the face of abject poverty and institutionalized state marginalization, resistance to opponents of female circumcision becomes a placemaking project. It demonstrates that the social arrangement sustaining female circumcision…
The Social Epidemiology and Burden of Malaria in Bali Nyonga, Northwest Cameroon
Malaria is an infectious disease caused by the anopheles mosquito that kills at least one million people in Sub-Saharan Africa every year, leading to human suffering and enormous economic loses. This paper examines the complex web of cultural, poor socio-economic conditions and environmental factors for the prevalence of malaria in Bali Nyonga. The study outlines and assesses the multiple notions of malaria causation with dirty environment (80.76…
Volume 10 (2014) | Issue 1
Volume 10, Issue 1 (2014), Journal:Journal of Human Security, Info:The Open Access Journal of Human Security brings together expertise from universities worldwide and facilitates communication and collaboration between researchers, practitioners and educators
The 'Gendered Field' of Kaolinite Clay Production: Performance Characteristics among the Balengou
This article examines the 'gendered field' of kaolinite clay production and its integration into the local socio-cultural universe of the Balengou of the Western region of Cameroon. Kaolinite clay is produced and ingested mainly by women, especially during pregnancy so as to ensure that their children are born 'clean'. Used as a herbal additive, the clay is also believed to be imbued with sacred qualities and has a symbolic role in various commun…
The Fragility of the Liberal Peace Export to South Sudan: Formal Education Access as a Basis of a Liberal Peace Project
This study examines the disjuncture between the policy transposition of the Liberal Peace Project (LPP) in South Sudan from the country's local context. It underlines how deep rooted historical exclusion from social welfare services reinforces political exclusion and exacerbates poor civic engagement among different ethnicities in the country causing a constant relapse to violence. The study combines a qualitative review of data from Afrobaromete…
Socio-Cultural Determinants of Infant Malnutrition in Cameroon
This study seeks to explore and explain the socio-cultural factors responsible for the incidence of infant malnutrition in Cameroon with particular emphasis on northern Cameroon where it is most accentuated. It combines quantitative data drawn from the 1991, 1998, 2004 and 2011 Cameroon Demographic and Health Surveys, as well as a literature review of publications by the WHO and UNICEF. This is further complemented with qualitative data from vari…
The paradox of petrodollar development: Chad's military diplomacy in regional and global security
This paper examines the Chadian government’s overwhelming preoccupation with state security, rather than individual security, as evidenced by its huge expenditure on arms rather than on poverty-alleviating development projects following the unprecedented influx of petrodollars in the years since production began in 2003. This overemphasis on state security demonstrates a mismatch between the availability of natural resource wealth and ongoing low…
An Evaluation of European Union Development Aid to the Democratization Project in Cameroon
As a way of deepening democracy, the European Union (EU) has dedicated substantial financial and technical assistance to Cameroon’s civil society and election process. More than two decades after the adoption of multipartism, there is, however, the lack of a credible institutional framework for democratization in the country. This analysis of mainly primary sources draws on donor–recipient relations theory to provide a critical assessment of the …
Fortress conservation, wildlife legislation and the Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon
The indigenous Baka Pygmies of southeast Cameroon depend mainly on environmental incomes for their livelihoods, usually hunting and gathering and the sustainable use of their ecological systems. They are at the verge of profound political, socioeconomic, and environmental transformations orchestrated by modern state laws regulating hunting and international development actors and agencies whose development vision expressed through conservation of…
Factors Impeding Social Service Delivery among the Baka Pygmies of Cameroon
Conservation organizations, missionaries and the State of Cameroon have put the indigenous hunter-gatherer Baka Pygmy people of southeast Cameroon at the limelight of development interventions that often do not reflect their needs and aspirations. Despite these benevolent initiatives, the indigenous Baka Pygmy people have remained on the margins of Cameroonian society. This paper attempts to answer the question: Why has service delivery been chal…
Environmental conservation, tourism development and the dilemma of the indigenous Pygmy people in southeast Cameroon
This paper examines the implications of the paradox implicit in the conflation of Pygmies and other forest-based peoples (Bantu farmers) as a single identity group by conservationists and tourism developers. These actors share a hardened image and a single field view of the Pygmies as "people of the forest" that must paradoxically be evicted to give way for neoliberal development activities. The paper demonstrates that while Pygmies have diversif…
The bat meat chain and perceptions of the risk of contracting Ebola in the Mount Cameroon region
This study demonstrates that the complexity and nuances of gender, poverty and Ebola outcomes predispose some marginal groups to the risk of infection with zoonotic diseases. There is the need to improve public health intervention and health education among the rural masses in the Mount Cameroon region
Perceived effects of climate change on profit efficiency among small scale chili pepper marketers in Benue State, Nigeria
In the determination of the level of efficiency of an enterprise, the role of climate change cannot be overemphasized. However, some scholars are of the view that climate change might not really affect the level of efficiency of an enterprise due to its indirect effect on the performance of an enterprise. Understanding the perception of marketers of agricultural produce about climate change in agribusiness is paramount to sustain small scale ente…
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Egyptian National Security, and human and food security in the Nile River Basin
For centuries and emboldened by colonial treaties, Egypt has enjoyed overwhelming hydro-hegemony in the (NBR) Nile Basin River region. However, Egyptian dominance over the NBR has been challenged by Ethiopia following her unilateral construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Using A qualitative, deductive approach based on multiple sources of evidence, this paper analyses the historical imbalance in the Nile colonial treaties that gave …
The Plight of Female Cameroonian Migrant Sex Workers in N’Djamena, Chad: A Case of Intersectionality
In most countries, sex-work is criminalized and frowned upon. This leads to human rights abuses, especially for migrant female sex workers. The burden is heavier on migrant female sex-workers whose gender and foreign citizenship intersect to produce a plethora of adverse health, social, and legal outcomes. This phenomenological study explores the intersectionality of individual factors leading to human rights abuses among migrant Cameroonian fema…
The Fight against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting among the Ejaghams of Cameroon: Kinks in the Legal Approach and Implications for Public Health Practice
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most prevalent harmful cultural practices against women and girls in many African countries. We identified reasons for the failure of the legal approach to stop FGC practice in the Ejagham region Southwest of Cameroon through multi-locale ethnographic fieldwork. The reasons revolve around the belief that FGM is useful for the reduction of sexual immorality among women, removal of sexual ambi…
Trapped by debt: An ethnographic study of medical indebtedness and hospital detention in the Fundong Health District, Cameroon
Background: This study investigates the structural and socio-cultural drivers of medical indebtedness and hospital detention due to unpaid healthcare bills in the Fundong Health District, Cameroon. It explores how poverty, institutional shortcomings, and cultural beliefs converge to exacerbate patients' financial vulnerability and delay access to care. Methods: A qualitative anthropological approach was employed between February and November 2022…
The influence of traditional food consumption on Cameroonian immigrants’ perception of type 2 diabetes in Minnesota: An exploratory qualitative study
Purpose: This study explored how traditional food consumption shapes perceptions of type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk among nondiabetic Cameroonian immigrants residing in Minnesota, USA. The focus was on participants' dietary behaviors, lifestyle adaptations, and experiences with the U. S. healthcare system. Guided by an integrated theoretical framework-including the Health Belief Model (HBM), socioecological theory (SEM), risk/protective factors, and S…
Bamiléképhobia and the production of identity under authoritarianism in Cameroon
This article examines Bamiléképhobia as a historically produced and actively mobilized process of ethnic stigmatization and identity construction targeting the Bamileke in authoritarian, post-2018 Cameroon. Situated within debates on identity, belonging, and ethnicized governance in Africa, the study adopts a qualitative, interpretive, desk-based design grounded in historical analysis, critical discourse analysis, and elite profiling. It draws on…
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