Dr. Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele - ASFI Women's Week 2024

Dr. Eunice Fonyuy Fondze-Fombele

Dr. Fondze-Fombele is an Associate Professor of Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies in the university of Buea, Cameroon. Her research interests are African indigenous gender relational epistemologies, ecology and planetary habitability, Ubuntu Decolonial Ethics, Infectious Imaginations and Multidisciplinary research methodologies. She is an administrator, research mentor, journal editor, wife, mother and an investor in rural women and youths for progress acceleration through the Kisoo Foundation.

She is a graduate of the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon, where she also obtained her PhD in African Literature, Gender and Cultural Studies. She has over 30 scientific papers to her credit and has co-edited three books and other scholarly contributions in form of book reviews and blurbs.

She is the Engagement Officer of Collaborative Research on Africa, a research laboratory she contributed to set up. This laboratory brings together students and researchers from various universities in Cameroon and Africa for capacity building and they are making substantial contributions to science. She is the Assistant Secretary of the Cameroon Professional Research Oriented Women Network (CaPROWN). She is also the member of the National Commission for Change of Grade, CCIU, in the Higher Education of Cameroon. She is a member of the Elsevier Advisory Panel. She is also the editor of the Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture (JELLic).

She is the pioneer President of the ASFI General Assembly Leaders, an initiative that works to build the right competencies to solve Africa’s developmental problems through science.

She has built strong international collaborations with other researchers and institutions, enabling her to mentor graduate students and budding researchers from various universities in Cameroon, other African countries, Germany, the US and South Africa.

Her scientific contributions have made a significant impact in the field of literature and multidisciplinary methodologies. She has developed the concepts of bionarratology and infectious imaginations which made more sense to many researchers during the COVID 19 era. Her research on Gender relations in Cameroon Literature and culture has influenced policy on gender equity and reduced inequalities in Cameroon.

As an administrator, she is currently Head of Admissions and Records in the Faculty of Arts. She has been Head of Division in Charge of Research and Publications in the Central Administration of the University of Buea and Faculty Officer in the Faculty of Arts.

Her passion is self-investment and investment in rural women and youths.