In this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances
embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been
overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an
ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what
it has meant to be and belong in Kom- an ethnic community in the
Northwest Region of Cameroon - since 1800, he explores the discourses
and practices of kfaang as central to any understanding of mobility and
modernity in Kom, Cameroon and Africa at large. The book unveils the
emic understanding of modernity through the history and ethnography of
kfaang and its technologies and illustrates how these terminologies were
conceived and perceived by the Kom people in their social and physical
mobilities. It documents and analyzes the historical processes involved
in bringing about and making kfaang a defining feature of everyday life
in Kom and among Kom subjects.