Flavius Mokake

Dynamic and results-oriented professional with extensive experience in healthcare and education, notably at Preventive Measures. Excelled in care plan management and interdisciplinary research, enhancing client care and academic excellence. Skilled in building strong relationships and adept at regulation compliance. Proven track record of improving patient response times and student performance through innovative solutions and effective problem-solving.

African Studies Association (ASA) – USA; North American Association of Scholars on Cameroon (NAASC) - USA; West African Research Association (WARA), Boston – USA; Association of Friends of Archives and Antiquities in Cameroon (AFAAC) – Buea, Cameroon; Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) – Dakar, Senegal

• AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS , Donald Hopkins Scholar in Global Health Fellowship – includes $50,000 towards tuition and other fees.
• Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Fellowship from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH (2013 -2018) – includes a stipend of $21,218 (12 months) per year and graduate instructional tuition waiver
• $500 financial support from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Office of Advanced Studies Program to attend African Studies Association Annual Meeting 2016
• Royal Air-Maroc-ASA Travel Award – 2016
• Travel scholarship to the International Conference on the Abolition of the Slave Trade on the Theme: ‘“The Bloody Writing is for Ever Torn:” Domestic and International Consequences of the First Governmental Efforts to Abolish the Atlantic Slave Trade,’ from Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture - August 2007

• "The Unsung Heroes" A Social History of Sanitary Inspectors and Public Health in the Cinderella Territory of Anglophone Cameroon, 1916-1980s," to be presented at the Decolonizing Medicine in Africa and Its Diaspora international conference, Towson University, Maryland, USA, September 21-24, 2023.
• "Leprosaria in a Time of Crisis: Custodial Care, Controlled Spaces and Diseasehood in Ghettoized Leprosy Settlements in Cameroon, 1950s - 1970s." presented at the German Society for the History of Hospitals & International Network for the History of Hospitals Symposium Hospitals in Times of Crisis. Warsaw, Poland, May 18-20, 2023.
• The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development (London Business School) African History through the Lens of Economics course, February 1 to April 13, 2022.
• “‘Lest We Forget’: Tales of Victims of a Separating Disease,” presented at the OUHCOM Work in Progress Seminar, November 10, 2016, Ohio University.
• (with Kingsley Antwi-Boasiako) “Palaver Halls as Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Indigenous African Settings: Cameroon/Ghana Experience,” presented at the International Conference on Global Conflicts, Local Solutions: Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies Georgia, Atlanta, April 20-21, 2012.
• (with Samba Camara) “Pala-pala and Lámb: Fists of Culture, History and Development in Cameroon and Senegal,” presented at the International Conference on Sports in Africa: Sports and Community Building in Africa and the Global South Athens, Ohio, April 6-7, 2012.
• (with Henry K. Kah) “The Impact of German Colonial Policies on Public Health Initiatives in British Southern Cameroons, 1884-1961,” presented at the International Conference on German Colonialism in West Africa: Implications for German-West African Partnership in Development, Winneba, Ghana, September 29- October 1, 2011.
• “‘Those Days of Bondage:’ Slavery, Collective Memory and Cameroon Historiography,” presented at International Conference on the Theme “Searching for the African Voice in Enslavement, Slave Trade and Slavery,” Buea, Cameroon, December 14-16, 2010.
• ‘Kontri-Fashion,’ Social Peace and the Ngondo Festival of the Duala of Cameroon, 1951-2009,” presented at the WARA/WARC Peace Initiative Project in West Africa Second Regional Conference on Peacemaking in West Africa: Faith Communities and their Role in Conflict, Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 12-15, 2010.
• Seminar organised by the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) on ‘Child-Trafficking within the Buea Diocese,’ Buea, Cameroon, November 3, 2009.
• “Teenage Girls, Mobile Phones and Perceptions of Autonomy: The Experience of Young Damsels in the Molyko Neighborhood, Cameroon,” presented at the International Conference on New Frontiers of Child and Youth Research in Africa, Douala, Cameroon, August 25-26, 2009.
• “Indigenous Perception and Resistance to Metropolitan Medical Therapy among the Littoral People of Colonial British Cameroons,” presented at the Second Pan-African Cultural Festival International Colloquium on the Colonial Enterprise and Liberation Struggles in Africa, Algiers, Algeria, July 13-15, 2009.
• “Youth, Poverty Reduction and Possibilities within the HIPC Discourse in Cameroon: The Case of Youth in Fako Division,” presented at the Faculty of Social and Management Science Seminar series 2006/2007 on the theme: Implementation, Challenges and Prospects of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative in Cameroon, University of Buea, Cameroon, November 8-9, 2007.
• “The Kabba Dress: Identity and Modernity in Contemporary Cameroon,” presented at the Joint International Conference on Globalization: Migration, Citizenship and Identity,” university of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, November 6-9, 2007.
• “Globalization and the Commercialization of ‘Hegemonic Cultures’ across ‘Traditional’ Africa: An Irreverence of Natural Law Precepts?” Paper accepted for presentation at the Symposium on Natural Law at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 6-8 February 2007.
• “Globalization and Culture: Dynamic Standards of Youth Sub-Cultures in South West Cameroon,” Research paper presented at the CODESRIA Child and Youth Studies Institute on the theme: ‘Street Children and Lumpen Youth: Childhood and Youth at the Margins,’ October 02-26, 2006.
• ‘“When All Roads Lead to the Same Point: Compassing Positive Development for Africa,” paper presented at the First Annual CUEA Philosophy Conference on the Theme: ‘Philosophy of Development” at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-15 September, 2006.
• “Changing Times and the Role of the Media in Governance: The Cameroon Experience,” presented at The Challenges of Governance and Development in Cameroon, April 15-16, 2006.
• “African Culture and Religion in the Pursuit of Prosperity and Solidarity in a Globalizing World,” accepted for publication as a chapter in the conference proceeding on Africa, Globalization and Justice Conference, organized by the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, May 15-17, 2006.

Washington, DC 20002

• REFERENCES Franklyn Charles, PhD, – franklyn.charles@sru.edu Zelalem Haile, PhD, – haile@ohio.edu Jeremiah Asaka. PhD, - joa012@shsu.edu

Athens, OH,Athens, OH,true,Missouri

· “Teenage Girls, Mobile Phones and Perceptions of Autonomy: Examples from Molyko Neighborhood, Southwest Cameroon.” In Mwenda Ntarangwi and Guy Massart (eds.) Engaging Children and Youth in Africa: Methodological and Phenomenological Issues. (Bamenda & Dakar: Langaa RPCIG & CODESRIA, 2015). 

· “Youth and Currency Counterfeiting at Crossroad with Special Reference to Mutengene (Cham), South-West Cameroon.” Childhood in Africa: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1 (2013): 1-16.

· “Mungo, River of Pestilence: Sleeping Sickness and Trans-frontier Cooperation in the Cameroons, 1925-1947.” In Pierre Fandio (ed.) Popular Culture and Representations in Cameroon. (Kansas City, MO: Miraclaire Academic Publication, 2013): 113-134. 

· (with Henry K. Kah) “The Impact of German Colonial Policies on Public Health Initiatives in British Southern Cameroons, 1884-1961.” In Wazi Apoh and Bea Lundt (eds.) Germany and its West-African Colonies: ‘Excavations’ of German Colonialism in Post-colonial Times. (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2013): 93-117.

· “Social Peace and the Ngondo Festival of the Duala of Cameroon.” African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review Vol. 2. No. 2 (Fall 2012: pp. 88-103). 

· “Youth, Globalization and Lumpen Culture in the Molyko Neighborhood of Buea, Cameroon.” Kaliao: Revue Pluridisciplinaire de l’École Normale Supérieure de Maroua (Cameroun), Série Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Vol. 3, No. 6 (2011): 105-121.

· “Indigenous Perception and Resistance to Metropolitan Medical Therapy among the Littoral People of British Southern Cameroons,” Tropical Focus: The International Journal Series on Tropical Issues, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Jul., 2010): 104-116. 

· “The Kabba Dress: Identity and Modernity in Contemporary Cameroon.” In A. Adebayo, O. Adesina and R. Olaniyi (eds.) Marginality and Crisis: Globalization and Identity in Contemporary Africa. (Lexington Books, 2010): pp.71-80.

“Changing Times, the Media and Governance in Cameroon 1961-2005.” In T. N. Fonchingong and J. B. Gemandze (eds.) Cameroon: The Stakes and Challenges of Governance and Development. (Bamenda: Langaa RPCIG, 2009): pp.165-184.