Ankiambom Nkesa Nkesa
Douala, Cameroon
Nkesa Ankiambom's writing crosses culture, religion, technology and political life, using the ordinary as a way into larger questions about who we are. He is particularly drawn to justice, and to moral and political philosophy.
World
Cameroon vs. Singapore: What Are They Betting On?
Does state sponsored reading actually cultivate independent thought, or does it simply trade one form of passive consumption for another?
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Politics
Freedom in Cameroon: For Everyone or When Convenient?
We live inside a state, subscribe to its rules, and accept that some of those rules exist to protect us from ourselves, because the costs of our choices rarely stay as private as we imagine.
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World
9/11 Attack and America's War on Terror: The Cure has Out-killed the Disease
To wave away the disproportion between the war and the wound that provoked it is to quietly concede that terror is subjective, that its meaning bends to who is holding the weapon and whose flag flies over the operation.
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Africa
Dangote Refinery IPO: What African Investors Need to Know
Can a government that has restricted the refinery's crude, contested its licences, and reneged on its own equity stake be trusted to keep the conditions stable enough for that profitability to reach the shareholder's pocket?
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Opinion
When Kom Spoke, Cameroon Listened. But Who Was Right?
The rightness or wrongness of a culture is defined by the people who live it, not by outsiders looking in.
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Opinion
Cameroon's Facebook Republic: Online Discourse Turns Scathing and Caustic.
How, can Cameroonians accuse their government of stifling dissent and squelching democratic space, while they themselves reduce online discourse to slander and abusive exchanges the moment they disagree?
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Politics
School Resumption: When September Divides Cameroon into two.
The same country, the same government, and supposedly the same school calendar, but with completely different resumptions that get ignored and made to look like they are not the reality
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Africa
Africa and the Equal Earth Projection: Big on Map, Small in practice.
Resizing a map does not redraw respect. Only sustained, unglamorous work does. The map has gotten bigger. We have stayed exactly the same size in the things that count.
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World
America’s Democracy: A Byproduct of Geopolitical Cynicism!
American democracy is less a pure moral project and more a corollary of its realist maneuvering in global politics.
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Technology
Africa’s Poverty Problem Is Not Technological. It Is Philosophical
Africa cannot rise through technology in and of itself. It will only rise through values that inform ethical decisions, which in turn shape policies that foster genuine and holistic development.
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Opinion
The Anglophone Crisis: Is a Solution Still Within Reach?
Handing someone their own forgotten IOU and calling it a gift is not diplomacy. It is bad faith wearing a suit.
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