Dr Primus M. Tazanu teaches anthropology at the University of Buea, Cameroon. He is also a Senior Guest Researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Furthermore, Dr Tazanu is a Research Fellow at the Nkafu Policy Institute of the Denis and Lenora Foretia Foundation, Cameroon. Primus holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Freiburg, Germany. He was educated in Cameroon, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. His academic career has taken him to the Universities of Basel (Switzerland), Freiburg (Germany), Witwatersrand (South Africa) and Copenhagen (Denmark).
Dr Tazanu’s research focuses on social practices and the production of meanings through media technologies: digital sociality/economies and governance, media and Pentecostalism, media and racism. He is as well researching decolonizing anthropological methodologies and epistemologies. Primus’s research draws from a multidisciplinary background and training: social anthropology, media studies, critical diversity studies, international migration and ethnic relations, development studies, political science, and sociology. Primus has published a book, book chapters and many peer-reviewed articles in journals.
Dr Tazanu is the president of the A & T Humanitarian Legacy Foundation. He regularly contributes to the Pan African Visions Magazine.
Biography
Primus M. Tazanu is a senior guest researcher at the Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.