Francis B. Nyamnjoh is a Cameroonian author of scholarly texts as well as works of fiction. His major scholarly works include: Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (2006), “C’est l’homme qui fait l’homme”: Cul-de-Sac Ubuntu-ism in Côte d’Ivoire (2015); Rhodes Must Fall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (2016), and Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd: How Amos Tutuola Can Change Our Minds (2017). His fictional oeuvre includes the novels Mind Searching (1991), The Disillusioned African (1995), A Nose for Money (2003), Souls Forgotten (2008), The Travail of Dieudonné (2008), Married But Available (2009), Intimate Strangers (2010), and Homeless Waters (2011). In all of these works, Nyamnjoh encourages a rigorous rethinking of socio-economic, cultural, and political institutions in postcolonial Africa. Recently, he has been excavating the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola’s stories to demonstrate that they illustrate the importance of incompleteness and of conviviality by challenging superiority syndromes and zero-sum games of potency and dominance. Talking about his most recent work, Drinking from the Cosmic Gourd, during his Archie Mafeje Lecture in March 2017, Nyamnjoh affirmed that incompleteness is both exciting and inspiring at personal, collective, and political levels. He suggested that “incompleteness harbors emancipatory ideals” and then concluded that “Africa is incomplete without the rest of the world, and the world is incomplete without Africa.” Incompleteness is thus a major theme in most of his fictional works, where he often portrays a contemporary Cameroon whose rich variety of ethnic and cultural identities is complicated by the cultural impact of French and British colonialisms. In his novels, Nyamnjoh affirms that official history is incomplete without unofficial history and vice versa. Nyamnjoh’s 2008 novel The Travail of Dieudonné (TTOD hereafter), in particular, thematizes incompleteness by challenging orthodox history’s stereotypes of unorthodox history as misrepresentative, and presents the complexities

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弗朗西斯·B·尼亚姆乔（Francis B.

Francis B. Nyamnjoh是喀麦隆的学术著作和小说作家。他的主要学术著作包括：《非洲的媒体，民主与归属政治》（2005年），《内部人与局外人：当代南部非洲的公民身份和仇外心理》（2006年），“ C'est l'homme qui fait l'homme”：Cul-科特迪瓦的de-Sac Ubuntu-ism（2015）; 罗得岛必须倒下：Ni于南非的弹性殖民主义（2016），以及从宇宙葫芦中喝酒：阿莫斯·图图拉如何改变我们的思想（2017）。他的小说作品包括小说《心灵搜寻》（1991年），《破灭的非洲人》（1995年），《为金钱而鼻子》（2003年），《被遗忘的灵魂》（2008年），《狄奥多内的风云》（2008年），《已婚但有空》（2009年），《亲密陌生人》 （2010）和《无家可归的水域（2011）》。在所有这些作品中，Nyamnjoh鼓励对后殖民非洲的社会经济，文化和政治制度进行严格的重新思考。最近，他一直在挖掘尼日利亚作家阿莫斯·图图拉（Amos Tutuola）的故事，以证明这些故事通过挑战优势综合症以及效能和优势的零和博弈来说明不完整和欢乐的重要性。Nyamnjoh在2017年3月举行的Archie Mafeje演讲中谈到他的最新作品《从宇宙葫芦喝酒》时，肯定了个人，集体和政治层面的不完整既令人兴奋又鼓舞人心。他提出“不完整蕴藏着解放的理想”，然后得出结论：“非洲没有世界其他地区是不完整的，非洲没有世界是不完整的”。因此，不完整是他大部分小说作品的主要主题，在这里，他经常描绘当代的喀麦隆，其种族和文化特征丰富多样，而法国和英国殖民主义的文化影响又使之复杂化。尼亚姆乔（Nyamnjoh）在他的小说中确认，没有非正式历史，官方历史是不完整的，反之亦然。尼亚姆乔（Nyamnjoh）的2008年小说《二重奏的特拉维（The Travail ofDieudonné）》（以下简称TTOD）尤其通过挑战正统历史对非正统历史的刻板印象（如误导性）来描述不完整，并提出了复杂性