Autor: Yazawa Shujiro

Ngambouk Vitalis Pemunta holds a D.Phil. in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the Central European University (CEU) Budapest, Hungary. Apart from teaching at the Universities of Yaounde1, Cameroon, Central European University, and University College Dublin, he has recently completed postdoctoral research at the Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden. He is also a consultant for several NGOs in both his native Cameroon and abroad―thereby cross-pollinating between the fields of anthropology and development. He is the country of origin expert on asylum representing Cameroon for the United Kingdom-based Rights in Exile Programme. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork and (Co-)published on a wide range of issues focusing on Cameroon, Chad, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. His research interests include gender, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, environmental policy, ethnography, critical development studies, medical sociology/anthropology, social science and medicine, colonialism and postcolonialism.