ABSTRACT
Name: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Title of publication: The Cowrie Necklace (poems)
Not only does Cameroon have its own share of world poets, the country is poetry itself, considering its multiple beauty and tourist attractions. Even so, the fatherland still has its own share of troubles among which are poverty, corruption, disease, unemployment, juvenile delinquency, to name those. The Cowrie Necklace is a collection of poems on everyday life situations. As such, the collection gives the reader a bird’s-eye-view of the rhythm of daily life as it is lived by man in particular and the living things of the universe in general.
The methodology used is that which presents the specific without concealing the general. Poems are generally brief and so necessarily made to catch and retain the attention of the reader. Yet they are complex enough for the researcher looking for twists in information flow and new scientific discoveries. The poems seek to answer questions such as: Who is man? Why is he here on earth? What is government? What are the constituent parts of the universe and how does the universe relate to him? What is man’s duty and mission as a link in the chain of life? Does man really see and appreciate the beauty around him or is all he sees dross and decay?
The ultimate aim of the book is to raise the reader to the lofty and noble heights of poetry, while at the same time offering the researcher interested in the domains of poetry and life, new pathways for investigating what it is exactly like, to be part of the human poetic chain.
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mardi 18 janvier 2011
TELEVISION NEWS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: FACT OR FICTION?
ABSTRACT
Name: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Research topic: Television news and the construction of reality: fact or fiction?
The television set is more and more becoming a reality in the homes of Cameroonians. Those who have access to it rely on it for news of what is going on around them. However, they also use it for entertainment and education, generally. There is some advantage that television enjoys over radio and the print media in the sense that with radio, one only “hears” and with the print media one only “sees” (reads), with television, does both hearing and viewing.
This paper takes an incisive look at the mechanism of television news by actually examining the “package” that the televiewer watches when in front of the screen. The package includes images – live and moving images – and sound (the spoke word, music and artificial sound effects). The paper analyses and explains the complex and disparate process that involves television news gathering and broadcast, to form one homogeneous “flow” that the televiewer now sits back and watches as if the product was strung together in that linear manner from the very beginning. Key questions that are tackled include: What is television news if not just an extension of cinema – that is, a combination of filmic language and cinematographic techniques? Is television news fact or fiction, especially considering the fact that the “news” that is watched as if it was unfolding at the moment of watching actually happened some time ago and was now simply re-enacted and made to look real? How exactly is the message in television news transmitted to the televiewer and how does the viewer perceive, receive and interpret it?
The aim of the paper is to demystify television news and explain it such that the televiewer, notably the adult one can understand better what he is watching. He or she will also be in a position to use the tools of film analysis such as punctuation, characterization, time, space and narrative to consolidate that understanding.
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Name: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Research topic: Television news and the construction of reality: fact or fiction?
The television set is more and more becoming a reality in the homes of Cameroonians. Those who have access to it rely on it for news of what is going on around them. However, they also use it for entertainment and education, generally. There is some advantage that television enjoys over radio and the print media in the sense that with radio, one only “hears” and with the print media one only “sees” (reads), with television, does both hearing and viewing.
This paper takes an incisive look at the mechanism of television news by actually examining the “package” that the televiewer watches when in front of the screen. The package includes images – live and moving images – and sound (the spoke word, music and artificial sound effects). The paper analyses and explains the complex and disparate process that involves television news gathering and broadcast, to form one homogeneous “flow” that the televiewer now sits back and watches as if the product was strung together in that linear manner from the very beginning. Key questions that are tackled include: What is television news if not just an extension of cinema – that is, a combination of filmic language and cinematographic techniques? Is television news fact or fiction, especially considering the fact that the “news” that is watched as if it was unfolding at the moment of watching actually happened some time ago and was now simply re-enacted and made to look real? How exactly is the message in television news transmitted to the televiewer and how does the viewer perceive, receive and interpret it?
The aim of the paper is to demystify television news and explain it such that the televiewer, notably the adult one can understand better what he is watching. He or she will also be in a position to use the tools of film analysis such as punctuation, characterization, time, space and narrative to consolidate that understanding.
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SAY NO TO AIDS (Book of poems)
ABSTRACT
Researcher: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Book title: Say No To AIDS (Poems)
This collection of poems combines the art of poetry which is an ancient one with that of health care, while using the medium of mass communication. As such, the issue of health communication is approached through the creative arts and literature. This is the kind of measure Cameroon needs in order to do what countries at the fore front of the fight against HIV AIDS are already doing, with some degree of success: containing the Bubonic plague.
This book aims at sensitizing the general public, but especially young people on the risks and ravages caused by the HIV AIDS pandemic. The methodology used in the book includes poems, some in French and some in English – without there being any translation of poems from one language into the other- thus taking into account the fact that Cameroon is a nation that uses both English and French as national languages. The poems are graduated in order to broaden the base of readership. Each poem is also set within a context that is clearly defined.
Questions the poems set out to investigate include: What is HIV AIDS? What are its symptoms? What are its vulnerable groups in society? How much damage has the pandemic caused? What are the remedial steps taken so far? What are the future prospects of the deadly disease? Finding answers to the above questions would enable stakeholders in the area of HIV AIDS in particular and health care in general to gain a deeper understanding of the pandemic and be better placed to stem its rising tide.
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Researcher: Tikum Mbah Azonga
Book title: Say No To AIDS (Poems)
This collection of poems combines the art of poetry which is an ancient one with that of health care, while using the medium of mass communication. As such, the issue of health communication is approached through the creative arts and literature. This is the kind of measure Cameroon needs in order to do what countries at the fore front of the fight against HIV AIDS are already doing, with some degree of success: containing the Bubonic plague.
This book aims at sensitizing the general public, but especially young people on the risks and ravages caused by the HIV AIDS pandemic. The methodology used in the book includes poems, some in French and some in English – without there being any translation of poems from one language into the other- thus taking into account the fact that Cameroon is a nation that uses both English and French as national languages. The poems are graduated in order to broaden the base of readership. Each poem is also set within a context that is clearly defined.
Questions the poems set out to investigate include: What is HIV AIDS? What are its symptoms? What are its vulnerable groups in society? How much damage has the pandemic caused? What are the remedial steps taken so far? What are the future prospects of the deadly disease? Finding answers to the above questions would enable stakeholders in the area of HIV AIDS in particular and health care in general to gain a deeper understanding of the pandemic and be better placed to stem its rising tide.
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