Henry Kam Kah

Dr Henry Kam Kah is an Associate Professor of History and former Acting Head, Department of History and African Civilisations at the University of Buea in the South West Region of Cameroon. His research interests are in the area of slavery, colonialism, gender, conflict and culture. He has several published scholarly papers to his credit, a book and two co-edited books with Professor Bea Lundt of Flensburg University Germany and retired Professor E.S.D. Fomin on Polygamous Ways of Life in Europe and Africa and Bimbia in the Changing Fortunes of Atlantic World History respectively. Dr. Kah has presented papers at several international symposia, workshops, seminars and conferences. He belongs to several learned societies including the American Political Science Association (APSA), Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), West African Research Association (WARA), Pan African Anthropologists Association (PAAA), African Politics Contact Group (APCG) and Association of Friends of the Archives and Antiquities Cameroon (AFAAC). Dr Kah is also associate research fellow of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria since 2008 and was DAAD Guest Professor at the Department of History, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf between October 2015 and March 2016. Together with some colleagues from Coventry University, United Kingdom and Cameroon, they recently completed a project on Voices from 'Ground Zero': Interrogating History, Culture and Identity in the Resolution of Cameroon's Anglophone Conflict.

Recent publications:

Kah, Henry K. & Chu, Eric K. (2023). 'Education, Preservation and Transformation in a Cameroonian Polity.' Lefem: Multidisplinary Journal of Transformation Education Vol 1. No. 1.

Kah, Henry Kam and Emmanuel E. Kengo (2022). “Coercion and Violence in German Labour Conscription in Cameroon, 1880s-1914.” Brazilian Journal of African Studies 7, 14 (): 11-30.  

Kah, Henry Kam (2022). 'Bimbia: Sites, Institutions and Environs in the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 1500-1880'. In: Bimbia in the Changing Fortunes of Atlantic World History, 1500-2020, E.S.D. Fomin and Henry Kam Kah Eds., 26-35. Buea: Centre for African Heritage Studies.

Kah, Henry Kam. 'Cameroonian Agency in Bota/Tiko Ports in British Southern Cameroons'. Lagos Historical Review, Vol. 22 (forthcoming).