The Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon: The Role of Social Networks in Meeting Needs by Nathanael Ojong,
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Nathanael Ojong
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As an American Peace Corps Volunteer, I went straight out of college to work with rural credit unions in Cameroon in the mid-1980s. The experience changed my life, giving me both insights into life and further questions to pursue. Cameroon turned me into an anthropologist.
With this background, I welcomed Nathanael Ojong’s new book, The Everyday Life of the Poor in Cameroon. Ojong is an international development assistant professor at York University in Toronto, but was born and raised in Cameroon. He returned to Cameroon to research how the poor manage their economic lives, with a focus on their social environment and networks. He states that his ‘core argument’ is that ‘the poor meet their everyday economic and non-economic needs through complex relations with others’ (p. 4). His qualitative study relies on interviews
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