Books

• 2022 (with Kerstin Pinther and Kristin Kastner, eds.). Fashionscapes: Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices in the Afropolis. Bloomsbury Publishing
• 2013. Rapid Assessment on the Attitude, Perception and Practices Relative to HIV/AIDS among MSM in Cameroon. Yaoundé: CDC/ NACC.  
• 2012. Magie et enrichissement illicite: Feymania au Cameroun (Magic and illicit enrichment in Cameroon). Paris: Karthala.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals  

• 2023a. “Coronavirus, Imagined Location and Disenchanted Home in Africa.” In: Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies , Vol. 23, No. 1. DOI: 10.3138/diaspora.23.1.2023.02.14
• 2023b. “Rhizomic authoritarianism: power, biopolitics and transnational practices in Cameroon.” In Julia Gurol, Alke Jenss, Fabricio Rodriguez, Benjamin Schuetze & Cita Wetterich eds., Authoritarian Power and Contestation Beyond the State. Globalizations, Special Issue, 23 March (https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2162290)
• 2022a. “The Nation and its Racial Other: Blackness, Racism, and Racial Capitalism in the Netherlands.” In: Conflict and Society: Advances in Research 8:275–288. doi:10.3167/arcs.2022.080117
• 2022b. “Garçons manqués and femmes fortes: Ambivalent Representation of Butch Lesbianism in Women’s Football in Cameroon.” In: African Studies Review 65, Nr.3: 568-590.
• 2020. “Death without Mourning: Homosexuality, Homo Sacer, and Bearable Loss in Cameroon.” In: Africa / Journal of International African Institute 90, 5: 152-169.
• 2018. “Mokoagne moni: l'argent du diable, le donmaléfique et la part mauditeen Afrique Centrale.” In: La Revue du Mauss, Université de Paris Sorbonne 52: 197-210.
• 2017. “Sex and The Transnational City: Chinese Sex Workers in the West African City of Douala.” In: Urban Studies Journal 54, Nr. 4: 999-1015.
• 2015. “Naming the Evil: Homosexuality, Power and Domination in Contemporary Cameroon.” In: Mutibe, the Multi-Disciplinary and Biannual Review of the FLSH, University of Douala: 135-154.    
• 2014. “‘Magic Body’ and ‘Cursed Sex’: Chinese Sex Workers as ‘Bitch-Witches’ in Cameroon.” In: African Affairs, Oxford Journals, 113, 452: 370-386.  
• 2011. “Migration, Architecture, and the Transformation of the Landscape in the Bamileke Grassfields of West Cameroon.” In: African Diaspora / A Journal of Transnational Africa in a Global world 2, 1: 77-100.
• 2010. “Millennial Democracy and Spectral Reality in Postcolonial Africa.” In: African Journal of International Affairs 11 (2). DOI:10.4314/ajia.v11i2.57267
• 2009. “Shanghai Beauties and African Desires: Migration, Trade and Chinese Prostitution in Cameroon.” In: The European Journal of Development Research 21, 4: 606-21.
• 2008a. “Mokoagne moni: Sorcery and New forms of Wealth in Cameroon.” In: Past & Present 199 (supplement), 3: 271-289
• 2008b. (with Michaela Pelican and Peter Tatah): “Local Perspectives on Transnational Relations of Cameroonian Migrants.” In: African Sociological Review / Revue Africaine de Sociologie 12, 2: 117-29.  
• 2005. “Carrefour de la Joie: Popular Deconstruction of the African Postcolonial Public Sphere.” In: Africa / International African Institute 75, 3: 265-94.

 

Book Chapters

• 2022a. “Looking East: BobarabaVogue and the Sinonization of Fashion and Beauty in Douala.” In Kerstin Pinther, Kristin Kastner and Basile Ndjio (eds.), Fashionscapes: Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices in the Afropolis. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• 2022b. (with Kerstin Pinther and Kristin Kastner). “Introduction.” In Kerstin Pinther, Kristin Kastner and Basile Ndjio (eds.), Fashionscapes: Histories, Materialities and Aesthetic Practices in the Afropolis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1-26.
• 2020. “Postcolonial Histories of Sexuality: The Political Invention of a Libidinal African Straight”. In Rachel Spronk & Thomas Hendriks (eds.), Readings in Sexualities from Africa, Bloomington: Indiana University Press/International African Institute, 251-268.
• 2019. “Homosexuality, Witchcraft and Occult in Africa.” In Howard Chiang, Anjali Arondekar, Marc Epprecht, Jennifer Evans, Ross G. Forman, Hanadi Al-Samman, Emily Skidmore, Zeb Tortorici (eds.), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, 1st edition, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons/The Gale Group.
• 2016a. “Nation and its Undesirable Subjects: Homosexuals and Alien ‘Others’ in Cameroon.” In Jan W. Duyvendak, Peter Geschiere & Evelien Tonkens (eds.), The Culturalization of Citizenship. Belonging and Polarization in a Globalizing World. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 115-36.
• 2016b. ‘Leadership, Nation, and Subjectivity in Cameroon: Ahidjo’s “Citizenization” and Biya’s “Autochthonization” in Comparative Perspectives.’ In Ebenezer Obadare and Wale Adebanwi (eds.), Governance and the Crisis of Rule in Contemporary Africa, London, Macmillan Palgrave, 119-146.
• 2014. “Overcoming Socio-Economic Marginalization: Young West African Hustlers and the Reinvention of the Global Capitalism.” In Ebenezer Obadare & Wendy Willems (eds.): Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century. London: James Currey, 85-103.
• 2013. “Sexualities and Nationalist Ideologies in Postcolonial Africa.” In Saskia Wieringa and F. Sivori Horacio, (eds.), Sexualities and Modernity in the Global South. London and New York: Zed books, 120-143.  
• 2012a. “Urban Tricksters and the City of Deception in Cameroon.” In: Stren, Richard and Dickson Eyoh (eds.): The Urban Experience in Africa: The Living City and its Local Policy Challenges. London: Routledge.  
• 2012b. “Sagacity Spirit and Ghetto Ethic: Feymania and New African Entrepreneurship.” In:Abbink, Jon (ed.): Fractures and Reconnections: Civic Action and the Redefinition of African Political and Economic Spaces: Studies in Honour of Piet J.J. Konings. Münster: Lit Verlag, 123-44.
• 2011. “Naming the Evil: Democracy and Sorcery in Contemporary Cameroon and South Africa.” In: Parés, Luis Nicolau and Roger Sansi-Roca (eds.): Sorcery in the Black Atlantic. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 165-186.
• 2008a. “Evolués and Feymen: Old and New Figures of Modernity in Cameroon.“ in Geschiere, Peter, Peter Pels and Birgit Meyer (eds.): Reading in Modernity in Contemporary Africa. Oxford: James Currey.  
• 2008b. “Modernist Notables and Postmodernist Elites in Cameroon.” In: McCaskie, Thomas C. and Keith Shear (eds.): Africans at Home and Abroad: Social Aspirations and Personal Lives. Gainesville: University of Florida Press.
• 2006a. “Douala: Inventing Life in an African Necropolis.” In: Martin, M. and G. Myers (eds.): Cities in Contemporary Africa. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 103-18.
• 2006b. “Intimate Strangers: Neighbourhood, Autochthony and the Politics of Belonging.” In: Konings, P. and D. Foecken (eds.): Crisis and Creativity: Exploring the Wealth of the African Neighbourhood. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 66-87.
• 2006c. “Sorcery, Power and Wealth in Africa: From the 16th to the 21st Centuries.” In: Encyclopedia of Africa, 2nd edition, Charles Scribner’s Sons/The Gale Group, 201-204.

 

Working papers

• (forthcoming) (with Fabricio Rodriguez): “Transregional Perspective in the Global South.” African Transregional Research Centre, University Freiburg.
• 2013. “Orientalizing the African Urban Space: Chinese Property Development and the Architecture of Capital in the City of Douala.” Department of Human Geography, University College London.
• 2012. “Overcoming State’s Homophobic Policy: ICT and the Wireless Imagined Homosexual Communities in Cameroon and Nigeria.” International Institute of Social History (IISH).
• 2010. “Cameroonian Feymen and Nigerian ‘419’ Scammers: Two Examples of Africa’s ‘Reinvention’ of the Global Capitalism.” African Studies Centre, University of Leiden.
• 2009. “Asian Bodies and African Fantasies: Chinese Prostitution and the Transformation of the Local Economy of Sex and Pleasure in Cameroon.” International Development Centre, The Open University, UK.  
• 2004. “Global Capitalism and Local Expectations.” African Studies Centre/University of Leiden.

 

Research reports

• 2013. "Evaluation qualitative rapide des perceptions, attitudes et pratiques relatives au VIH/SIDA chez les HSH." Rapport commandé par PEPFAR/CDC et le Comité National de Lutte contre le VIH/SIDA (CNLS). Yaounde, June 2013.
• 2011 (Pam Baatsen, Basile Ndjio, et al.). “Cordaid HIV Programme 8 Evaluation.” Final Evaluation Report, KIT, Amsterdam, March 2011.
• 2008. “Cameroon Factor: Prostitution and the Expectations of Modernity Among Cameroonian Urban Youths.” University of Amsterdam.  
• 2006. “Structural Transformation of the Civil society in Cameroon: From Civil Society to la société civile.” Research Report, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh (UK).
• 2005. “State, Civil Society and the Politics of the Belly in Cameroon.” Research Report, ASSR/University of Amsterdam.  

 

Blog Papers  

• 2014. “Sino-Pessimism on the Rise in Cameroon as Chinese Sex Labour Migrants Gain Popularity.” In: Blog LSE, The London School of Economic and Political Science, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/75465/