MBONJI EDJENGUELE BOOKS and BIODATA

MBONJI Edjenguele graduate summa cum lade with the first batch of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Yaoundé (1978). First PhD in Anthropology from the University of Yaoundé (1983), Doctor of Letters and Sciences (UFR) Ethnology, Anthropology, Religious Science of the University of Paris VII. Professor, Head of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Yaoundé 1, member of the Association of Pan African Anthropology, member of Euro-African Anthropology Association for Social Change and Development, member of the International commission on the Anthropology of Food, Member of the Cultural Network, member of the International Council of African Museums, director of the Laboratory of Ethnology and Anthropology and Applied, African Traditional Leader, Professor MBONJI was interested for decades to study European and Asian secret societies, before deploying to Negro-African sacred heritage. He authored numerous books and articles on general anthropology, epistemology and research methodology, development, cultural identities, African religions, African traditional medicine, secrete society training, rules and motto...

Professor MBONJI EDJENGUELE is an ethno-anthropologist. After a career as a researcher at the Institute of Human Sciences, he currently teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences of University of Yaoundé I where he obtained the first BS and the first PhD in Anthropology issued by the Sociology Section of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology. Subsequently, he obtained a PhD in Literature and Humanities at the University of Paris VII, UFR Sciences-Anthropology-Ethnology of Religion.

He authored several reflections on the development, interfaces, and cultural identities, the Black and African therapeutic systems and theoretical anthropology, he participated in the debate in the field of religious anthropology by proposing to revisit the relationship between dead and alive in Africa under a reciprocal background by balancing full life together with a requirement of the understanding of knowledge and virtue.