George Ngwane

Just Published: "Protecting Minority Language Rights" by George Ngwane

George Ngwane. (2023). Protecting Minority Language Rights. Protéger les droits des langues minoritaires. Spears Books, Denver, CO. Available from SpearsBooks and worldwide on all major online bookstores.

Fresh off the press is George Ngwane’s book PROTECTING MINORITY LANGUAGE RIGHTS, a bilingual volume that makes the case for why minority language rights are human rights.

According to Professor Joshua Casteliino, Executive Director of Minority Rights Group, International London and Professor of Law, the book offers those interested in linguistic rights insights into the dilemmas facing African countries, set against the backdrop of developments in the international framework for the promotion of linguistic rights.

Just Published: Diary of a Dismissed Delegate by Mwalimu George Ngwane

Mwalimu George Ngwane (2016). Diary of a Dismissed Delegate: Public Good at the Mercy of Bureaucracy and Sycophancy in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Publishers. 118 pages. Available on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Barnes&Noble and African Books Collective

About this Book

Diary of a Dismissed Delegate is the personal story of the trials and travails of George Ngwane as a civil servant in Cameroon.

With documented evidence in support, the book delves into the destructive machinations of the bureaucracy and sycophancy at the heart of the Cameroonian public service, and its detrimental effects on meritocracy and the public good. It is a system where the personalisation of power devalues virtue, devotion and dedication to truth and the call of justice.

For a country that has the ambition to recapture her lost middle income status, one that boasts of a huge critical mass of human capital, and that has all the potentials of a double digit economic development, political patronage and intolerance to creative freedom must be anathema.

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New Book From George Ngwane: The Power in the Writer

Mwalimu George Ngwane. The Power in the Writer: Collected Essays on Culture, Democracy and Development in Africa. Langaa Publishers, 2008. 196 pages. Available from amazon.com, African Books Collective and Michigan State University Press.

The book examines the creative industries of Cameroon and Africa and makes bold the cultural triumphant assertion that Africa is home to some of the most diverse cultural patrimony and the most versatile creative professionals. It also discusses indigenous development models and questions the rationale for Eurocentric democratic paradigms which have partly contributed to the demise of a concrete democratic development entitlement in most African countries.

Ngwane weaves both the cultural and political strands into a search for a homegrown development web which he calls 'glocalisation'. Ngwane's essays, most of which have animated debate and discourse in national newspapers, online blogs and International journals are lucid in their arguments, poignant in their ideological focus, rich in their non-fiction craftsmanship and urgent in their message delivery.

The essays will make good reading for students of Africa studies, Development studies, Politics and Culture.