George N Njung
Biographic Data
| ID | 903882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George N Njung |
| GIVEN NAMES | George N |
| FAMILY NAME | Njung |
| SIGNATURE | NJUNG G N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6031-1842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage
Journal Article Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. Get access Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 319. Paper $34.95. George N Njung George N Njung Baylor University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Playing Politics
The Nigerian Civil War forced the evacuation of some five thousand Biafran children to Gabon and Cȏte d'Ivoire, where they were camped as child refugees. History has emphasized humanitarian considerations, but newly declassified archival records reveal that acrimonious political interests determined the involvement of various actors in evacuating the children out of Nigeria and in later repatriating them. This article queries the practices by whi…
Rethinking Refuge
Rethinking Refuge:Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa; An Introduction George N. Njung (bio) and Marcia C. Schenck (bio) "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person," explains Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author. Eloquently articulating "the danger of the single story" in her homonymous Ted Talk (2009), she cautions how the single story, created by power, not onl…
Refugee exchanges between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and their socio-economic relevance, from the First World War to immediate post-independence
The paper explores the history of refugee experiences between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, one that transcends different historical periods. It pays particular attention to the European-engineered First World War in Africa, which triggered an unprecedented refugee situation. Digging into the deeper histories of the African refugee experiences through this case study, and particularly from the time of the war, allows for a better appreciation o…
Amputated Men, Colonial Bureaucracy, and Masculinity in Post–World War I Colonial Nigeria
Since the 1980s, several aspects of masculinity in relation to the First World War, including the image of the citizen-soldier, have been well studied. Other aspects, however, such as the experience of combat and its impact on peacetime masculinities lag well behind. Though wartime and postwar experiences in Africa provide a repertoire for gender and masculinity research, the continent has been neglected in this realm of studies. British colonial…
Victims of empire
The First World War (1914–18) saw the recruitment of over 20,000 Nigerian soldiers to defend the British African empire. When the war ended, the chaotic demobilization process transformed the surviving soldiers into ex-servicemen. This article examines the problems that faced the ex-servicemen in the postwar economy of British Nigeria by focusing on the categories of demobilization and resettlement, employment, finances, war wages, gratuities and…
The British Cameroons Mandate Regime
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
Victims of empire
The First World War (1914–18) saw the recruitment of over 20,000 Nigerian soldiers to defend the British African empire. When the war ended, the chaotic demobilization process transformed the surviving soldiers into ex-servicemen. This article examines the problems that faced the ex-servicemen in the postwar economy of British Nigeria by focusing on the categories of demobilization and resettlement, employment, finances, war wages, gratuities and…
Amputated Men, Colonial Bureaucracy, and Masculinity in Post–World War I Colonial Nigeria
Since the 1980s, several aspects of masculinity in relation to the First World War, including the image of the citizen-soldier, have been well studied. Other aspects, however, such as the experience of combat and its impact on peacetime masculinities lag well behind. Though wartime and postwar experiences in Africa provide a repertoire for gender and masculinity research, the continent has been neglected in this realm of studies. British colonial…
Rethinking Refuge
Rethinking Refuge:Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa; An Introduction George N. Njung (bio) and Marcia C. Schenck (bio) "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person," explains Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author. Eloquently articulating "the danger of the single story" in her homonymous Ted Talk (2009), she cautions how the single story, created by power, not onl…
Victims of empire
The First World War (1914–18) saw the recruitment of over 20,000 Nigerian soldiers to defend the British African empire. When the war ended, the chaotic demobilization process transformed the surviving soldiers into ex-servicemen. This article examines the problems that faced the ex-servicemen in the postwar economy of British Nigeria by focusing on the categories of demobilization and resettlement, employment, finances, war wages, gratuities and…
The British Cameroons Mandate Regime
A century after the victorious Allied powers distributed their spoils of victory in 1919, the world still lives with the geopolitical consequences of the mandates system established by the League of Nations. The Covenant article authorizing the new imperial dispensation came cloaked in the old civilizationist discourse, entrusting sovereignty over "peoples not yet able to stand by themselves under the strenuous conditions of the modern world" to …
Amputated Men, Colonial Bureaucracy, and Masculinity in Post–World War I Colonial Nigeria
Since the 1980s, several aspects of masculinity in relation to the First World War, including the image of the citizen-soldier, have been well studied. Other aspects, however, such as the experience of combat and its impact on peacetime masculinities lag well behind. Though wartime and postwar experiences in Africa provide a repertoire for gender and masculinity research, the continent has been neglected in this realm of studies. British colonial…
Refugee exchanges between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, and their socio-economic relevance, from the First World War to immediate post-independence
The paper explores the history of refugee experiences between Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, one that transcends different historical periods. It pays particular attention to the European-engineered First World War in Africa, which triggered an unprecedented refugee situation. Digging into the deeper histories of the African refugee experiences through this case study, and particularly from the time of the war, allows for a better appreciation o…
Playing Politics
The Nigerian Civil War forced the evacuation of some five thousand Biafran children to Gabon and Cȏte d'Ivoire, where they were camped as child refugees. History has emphasized humanitarian considerations, but newly declassified archival records reveal that acrimonious political interests determined the involvement of various actors in evacuating the children out of Nigeria and in later repatriating them. This article queries the practices by whi…
Rethinking Refuge
Rethinking Refuge:Processes of Refuge Seeking in Africa; An Introduction George N. Njung (bio) and Marcia C. Schenck (bio) "Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person," explains Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author. Eloquently articulating "the danger of the single story" in her homonymous Ted Talk (2009), she cautions how the single story, created by power, not onl…
Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage
Journal Article Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. Get access Sarah J. Zimmerman. Militarizing Marriage: West African Soldiers' Conjugal Traditions in Modern French Empire. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. Pp. 319. Paper $34.95. George N Njung George N Njung Baylor University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
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