Browsing by Author "Ambe, Anthony Nforh"

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    Insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions: Perspectives on the University of the Western Cape
    (SAGE Publications, 2021) Bidandi, Fred; Ambe, Anthony Nforh; Mukong, Claudia Haking
    This study investigated the insights and current debates on community engagement in higher education institutions with specific reference to the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. The article argues that although community engagement seems to present some challenges, it has become an integral part of higher education in South Africa and beyond. The article examines community engagement in higher education institutions and evaluates its contributions based on the research question. The article evaluates community engagement from the perspective of the UWC, community, and students. Data were collected through semi-structured with key informants. In total, 12 participants participated in the interviews. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data. The results of the study show that community engagement is dependent on institutions� relationships built between particular communities, which are easily lost if the people involved change. The results also show that community engagement has become a requisite for promotion and policy development. However, it reveals that issues of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) often take time affecting students and researchers. Moreover, the findings indicate that there is no standard procedure for community engagement as departments, individual lecturers, and students have unique and different interests.
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    Southern Cameroons: fifty years of subtle violence and subjugation 1961-2016
    (Universty of the Western Cape, 2022) Ambe, Anthony Nforh; Pillay, Suren
    The Southern Cameroons question which has come to be known as the ‘Anglophone problem’ has drawn international attention as a result of the physical and ‘spectacular’ violence that have recently engulfed the region. Central and essential to this study is the concept of subtle violence drawn from Kevin D. Holden’s explanation of soft subtle violence which is regarded as injury by infringement. According to Holden, one of the most common encouragements to physical violence from an apparent nonviolent past evolves as a result of withholding, neglect and indifference. Here withholding, neglect and indifference would signify injury by infringement. In the case of Southern Cameroon, subtle violence could be seen as the withholding of the rights of Southern Cameroonians, the neglect of their socio-economic and infrastructural needs, and the indifference towards their plight for equality as Cameroonian citizens by the state as inscribe in the Cameroonian constitution. Many Southern Cameroonians feel subjected to the position of second class citizens in the Republic of Cameroon because of the legal, linguistic and socio-cultural identity they inherited and appropriated as a result of colonial legacies.