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Ajume H. Wingo (PhD, Wisconsin, 1997) was born in Nso in the North West Province of Cameroon. He attended Cameroon College of Arts, Science and Technology (CCAST) Bambili where he studied History, Economics and Geography. He also attended the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Yaounde, Cameroon where he studied law at the Faculty of Law and Economics. He obtained his BA from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California Berkeley and an MA (1995) and PhD (1997) from the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Wisconsin Madison. He was a fellow at the Institute on Race and Social Division, Boston ³Ô¹ÏÍø; a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark ³Ô¹ÏÍø and Emerson College; and an Assistant and Associate Professor at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Massachusetts Boston. He is currently an Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard.

Professor Wingo has published widely on liberal democratic philosophy and politics, particularly on institutional building in places where there are non-liberal democratic or illegitimate political institutions. He has also published on Civic Education, African Politics, African Art, and Aesthetics. His book is published by Cambridge ³Ô¹ÏÍø Press in the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy series. He is currently working on a book entitled The Citizen, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Kruse. The book is about how Africans can move beyond where their history has put them and begin to make their own future and secure their own political freedom.

For more information see Professor Wingo's CV.

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