GSC 144: Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS)
Final Report Abstract
We are proud to state that the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) kept its promises throughout its funding periods in the Excellence Initiative and developed into an outstanding early career research-oriented training institution in African studies. BIGSAS sustainably impacted the university as a whole by establishing excellent commitment for (a) doctoral culture(s) with truly international and diverse teaching and trans-continental learning structures. Pioneering measures for gender and diversity in BIGSAS provided a university-wide example. With respect to transdisciplinary collaboration and outreach to civil society BIGSAS highlighted the Third Mission of the University of Bayreuth (UBT). The first five years of BIGSAS (2007-2012) were characterized by the following objectives: to bring together excellent young African and non-African scholars to work jointly in the field of African studies, to offer a center of creative and innovative PhD training and research in Germany and develop an international strategic network committed to excellent research-oriented doctoral training structures that connect countries in Africa with Germany and Europe. Due to the successful implementation of unequaled opportunities for young international researchers in the global landscape of African studies, BIGSAS was awarded its second phase (2012-2017) to then further invigorate exceptional early career research by connecting the outstanding transcontinental academic expertise of meanwhile seven universities – six of them on the African continent. It was furthermore possible to step beyond conventional lines of thought by developing and implementing new transdisciplinary action as well as creating new interfaces between humanities and engineering sciences. The university supported the successful course with the new professorships ‘Culture and Technology in Africa’, ‘Media in Africa’ and ‘African Politics and Development Policy’. In its 12th year of existence (2019), the BIGSAS network with its six Partner Universities (PUs) in Benin, Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique and South Africa has proven a mature and sustainable transcontinental network, which promotes mutual learning, thereby enhancing research capacities in Africa and Europe. Moreover, the BIGSAS network added value by successfully launching the European-funded Intra-Africa Mobility Scheme AMAS. Until December 31, 2018, all in all, 221 young researchers worked on their doctoral projects at BIGSAS. Out of this number, 138 alumni form an active alumni network that celebrated its potential as a think tank in November 2018 during the first alumni meeting on the African continent. At present, 80 doctoral students benefit from BIGSAS and its innovative approach to joint academic training, joint learning, joint research and joint development of future higher education structures: the credo of ‘Research on Africa only with Africa’ consequently led to critical reflection of area studies and to the desideratum of ‘Reconfiguring African Studies’ for the next step of excellence within the framework of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.
Link to the final report
https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1697247032
Publications
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2016. Vigilantism, State, and Society in Plateau State, Nigeria: A History of Plural Policing (1950 to the Present)
Lar, Jimam Timchang
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Reproductive Dilemmas in the Pro-natalist Sudan: Perception of Causes, Treatment Practices, and Consequence of Female Infertility in the Town of Tamboul
Al Hadi, Abu Baker Ahmed Abdel Rahman
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2009. Articulation du discours dans le Songhay : Une analyse des connecteurs dans le discours des Songhay-Zarmas émigrés en Côte d’Ivoire. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung, 42
Boukari, Oumarou
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2010. Intimität und Sexualität vor der Ehe. Gespräche über Ungesagtes in Kumasi und Endwa, Ghana. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 44
Bochow, Astrid
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2010. Kindheit, Autobiografik und Interkulturalität. Ein Beitrag zur sprachübergreifenden und (kon-)textorientierten Literaturtheorie. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 46
Nyada, Germain
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2010. Refugee Women and the Experiences of Local Integration in Nairobi, Kenya
Jaji, Rosemary
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2011. Inter-firm Relationships and Governance Structures: A Study of the Ethiopian Leather and Leather Products Industry Value Chain. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 48
Megento, Tebarek Lika
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2011. Le Mythe de l’Abinos dans les Récits Subsahariens Francophones. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 49
Dodounou, Tsevi
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2011. On the Poetics of the Utendi: A Critical Edition of the Nineteenth-Century Swahili Poem “Utendi wa Haudaji” together with a Stylistic Analysis. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 50
Vierke, Clarissa
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2011. Women's Life Worlds 'In-Between'. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 7 (BIGSASworks! 1)
Antje Daniel, Katharina Fink, Lena Kroeker & Jaana Janßen (geb. Schütze) (eds)
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2012. Les Touaregs du Tassili n Ajjer : Mémoires collective et organisation sociale. Algier: CNRPAH 17
Badi, Dida
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2012. Trends, Discourses and Representations in Religions in Africa. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 9 (BIGSASworks! 2)
Meron Zeleke Eresso & Halkano Abdi Wario (eds)
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2013. Challenging Notions of Development and Change from Everyday Life in Africa. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 11 (BIGSASworks! 4)
Girum Getachew Alemu & Peter Narh (eds)
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2013. Corporate Social Responsibility Conduct/Disclosure in the Experience of Sudanese Islamic Banks, 2008-2010
El-Hassab, Omer Ahmed
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2013. The Izala Movement in Nigeria: Its Split, Relationship to Sufis and Perception of Sharīʿa Re-Implementation
Ben Amara, Ramzi
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2013. The making of meaning in Africa: Word, Image and Sound. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 10 (BIGSASworks! 3)
Duncan Omanga & Gilbert Ndi Shang (eds)
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2013. The Re-implementation of Sharia in Northern Nigeria and the Education of Muslim Women 1999-2007
Danfulani, Chikas
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2014. A New Institutional Economics Approach to Smuggling. Bayreuth: NMP- Verlag
Morisho, Nene
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2014. Etude du ngbem, parler gangam de Koumongou. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 54
Bakpa, Mimboabe
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2014. Kulturtransfer in der Übersetzung von Literatur und Film. Sembène Ousmanes Novelle Niiwam und deren Verfilmung Niiwam. Der lange Weg. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag
Ndong, Louis
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2014. L’intraduisible en question: Problématique linguistique africaine et décolonisation conceptuelle, une lecture critique. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag
Brahima, Abraham
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2014. Narrative Voice and Focalization in the Narration of Generational Conflicts in Selected Kiswahili Novels
Wafula, Magdaline Nakhumicha
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2014. Networking the Nomads: A Study of Tablīghī Jamāʿat among the Borana of Northern Kenya
Wario, Halkano Abdi
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2014. The Job Hunt: Return Migration and Labour Market Entries of Ghanaian and Cameroonian Graduates from German Universities. Wien: World University Service
Boger, Julia
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2014. The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania
Ng’atigwa, Francis Xavier
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2014. Transgression in Swahili Narrative Fiction and its Reception. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 56
Tchokothe, Rémi
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2014. Zwischen Suffering und Styling: Die lange Reise nigerianischer Migrantinnen nach Europa. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 53, ISBN: 9783643116734
Kastner, Kristin
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2015. Actors, Institutions and Change: Perspectives on Africa. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 13 (BIGSASworks! 5)
Matthew Sabbi & Jane Ayeko-Kümmeth (eds)
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2015. Faith at the Crossroads: Religious Syncretism and Dispute Settlement in Northern Ethiopia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN 978447103534
Eresso, Meron Zeleke
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2015. Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana and Uganda: Development and Application of the Achievement Stages Model. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 59
Flosbach, Johannes
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2015. Forced Removal and Social Memories in North-western Zimbabwe, c1900-2000
Marowa, Ivan
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2015. In between Life and Death: Decision-making of HIV+ Mothers in Lesotho. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 61
Kroeker, Lena
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2015. Institutional Interaction in Environmental Governance: A Study on Teak Farming and Sand Winning in Dormaa, Ghana. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag
Narh, Peter
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2015. Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
Brinkmann, Felix
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2015. La traite des enfants en Afrique: L‘application des conventions internationales relatives aux droits de l‘enfant en République du Bénin. Paris: L’Harmattan
Bello, Sakinatou
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2015. Le senar (lange senufo du Burkina Faso): éléments de description et d’influence du jula véhiculaire dans un contexte de contact de langues. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag
Traoré, Daouda
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2015. Logiques sociales de la solidarité envers les personnes vivant avec le VIH. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, ISBN: 9783736991187
Coulibaly, Nonlourou Marie Paule Natogoma
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2015. Militarization in Post-1986 Uganda: Politics, Military and Society Interpretation. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 58
Kagoro, Jude
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2015. Modernizing Indigenous Priesthood and Revitalizing Old Shrines: Current Developments on Ghana’s Religious Landscape
Nrenzah, Genevieve
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2015. Pilgrimages and Syncretism: Religious Transformation among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia
Geda, Gemechu J.
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2015. Society and Nature in the Lower River Nyando Basin, Kenya
Bloemertz, Lena
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2015. The Perception of HIV/AIDS among Students in Nigeria. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 55
Bello, Baba Mai
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2015. Traces d’enfance: Analyse littéraire de trois recueils francophones de récits d’enfance. München: AVM. Edition
El Naggare, Maroua
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2015. Un/doing Sophiatown: Contemporary Reverberations of a Myth and in a Suburb. Bayreuth: Himmelgrün. ISBN: 9783981728705
Fink, Katharina
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2016. (Re)Mapping Luanda. Utopische und nostalgische Zugänge zu einem kollektiven Bildarchiv. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 75
Siegert, Nadine
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2016. Description comparative des langues du sous-groupe Bia Nord: agni, baule, anufo
Kozi, Bonson Marie Laure
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2016. Die Ordnung hinter der Ordnung. Ethnographie einer islamischen Geheimwissenschaft. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 74
Kuhn, Tobias
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2016. Dispute Settlement in Eastern Guinea-Bissau. Self- Presentations, Stories and Agency. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 72
Borszik, Anne-Kristin
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2016. Dynamics behind Persistent Images if “the Other”: The Interplay between Imaginations and Interactions in Maasau Cultural Tourism. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 76
Wijngaarden, Vanessa
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2016. Ethnotourismus in der Kalahari. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 65
Scheffler, Jennifer
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2016. Generationen-Bande. Ordnung, Praxis und Geschichte der Generationenbeziehungen bei den Lama (Kabiyé) im nördlichen Togo. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 70
Häberlein, Tabea
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2016. Housing Finance Strategies of Informal Settlement Dwellers. Factors of Influence and Impacts of Planned Interventions in Dar es Salaam. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 68
Rudic, Christiane
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2016. Identity and Lifestyle Construction in Multi-ethnic Shantytowns. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 64
Bakhit, Mohamed A. G.
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2016. L’environnementalisme en Afrique francophone. La representation de l’environnement. Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag
Koto, Yawo Mensah M.
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2016. Managing Risk and Securing Livelihood. The Karrayu Pastoralists, their Environment and the Ethiopian State. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, Erdkundliches Wissen 159
Alemu, Girum G.
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2016. Narrating the Self and Nation in Kenyan Autobiographical Writings. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 63
Ndogo, Samuel
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2016. Organisation – Vernetzung – Bewegung. Frauenbewegungen in Kenia und Brasilien. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 62
Daniel, Antje
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2016. Possessivos e seus Domínios Conceituais. Enfoque sobre as línguas do grupo banto. Rio de Janeiro: Publit
Aráujo, Paulo Jeferson Pilar
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2016. Religion and Space: Perspectives from African Experiences. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 15 (BIGSASworks! 6)
Serawit Bekele Debele & Justice Anquandah Arthur (eds)
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2016. Spectacles of Displacement. Institutional and Vernacular Photography on Refugees in Dadaab, North-Eastern Kenya
Chepngetich, Pamela
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2016. Surviving in a Conflict Environment: Market Women and Changing Socioeconomic Relations in Jos Nigeria – 2001-2010
Bonkat, Lohna
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2016. The Local and Global Dynamics of Moroccan Music Festivals
El Maarouf, Moulay Driss
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2016. The Media and Terrorism. Editorial Cartoons, Framing and Legitimacy in the Kenyan Press, 1998-2008. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 67
Omanga, Duncan Mainye
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2016. The State of the Nation. “Businification” of Political Rhetoric in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 60
Turner, Irina
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2016. The Transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria
Baiyewu, Timothy
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2016. Towards a History of Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Ethiopia since the 1960s
Hailu, Aychegrew H.
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2016. Undeveloped Adaptation. Climate Risks, Vulnerability and Household Well-Being in Mwingi/Kenya
Kiragu, Serah Wambui
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2016. Wilderness or Home? Conflicts, Competing Perspectives and Claims of Entitlement over Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 66
Debelo, Asebe Regassa
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2016. Wilderness or Home? Conflicts, Competing Perspectives and Claims of Entitlement over Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 66
Debelo, Asebe Regassa
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2016. À Goma on sait jamais. Jugend im ganz normalen Ausnahmezustand in Goma, DR Kongo. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 69
Oldenburg, Silke
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antaw, Setargew Kenaw. 2016. Technology-Culture Dialogue: Cultural and Sociotechnical Appropriation of Mobile Phones in Ethiopia. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 71
Fantaw, Setargew Kenaw
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Der Versuch zu bleiben. Dammbau und Krise im sudanesischen Niltal
Hänsch, Valeria
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2017. Angolan Kuduro: Carga, Aesthetic Duelling, and Pleasure Politics performed through Music and Dance
Alisch, Stefanie
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2017. Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver is a Word Spoken at the RightTime. The Translation of Biblical Metaphors in Hausa and Swahili. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 78
Firsching, Henrike
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2017. Changing Climates: Translating Adaptation in/to Rwanda. Münster: LIT, Forum Politische Geographie 14
Gebauer, Claudia
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2017. Charity Drops. Water Provision and the Politics of the Zakat Chamber in Khartoum, Sudan. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 82
Abdalla, Salma Mohamed Abdalmunim
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2017. Competing and Conflicting Power Dynamics in Waqfs in Kenya, 1900-2010
Chembea, Suleiman Athuman
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2017. Die Einheit der Kinder Gihangas. Kulturelle Dynamiken und politische Fiktionen der Neugestaltung von Gemeinschaft in Ruanda. Leiden, Boston, Singapore, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink
Dahlmanns, Erika
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2017. Local State Institutional Reforms in Ghana. Actors, Legitimacy and the Unfulfilled Promise of Participatory Development. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Politik und Gesellschaft in Afrika 3
Sabbi, Matthew
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2017. Mobile Labore. Zur Diagnose und Organisation von Malaria in Uganda. Bielefeld: Transcript
Umlauf, René
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2017. Perspectives on Translation Studies in Africa. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 17 (BIGSASworks! 7)
Uchenna Oyali (ed)
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2017. Regionalization of Higher Education in Africa. The Operationalization of the African Union Higher Education Harmonization Strategy. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 73
Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse
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2017. State/Society. Narrating Transformations in Selected African Novels. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 77
Ndi, Gilbert Shang
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2017. The History of Use and Conservation of Marine Resources in Zanzibar: Nineteenth Century to the Present
Mkumbukwa, Abdallah R.
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2017. The Modernity of Witchcraft in the Ghanaian Online Setting
Riahi, Idris
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2017. The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and the Performance of Islamic Rituals and Practices. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 81
Mohammed, Bakheit M. Nur
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2017. The Witch is not a Witch: The Dynamics and Contestations of Witchcraft Accusations in Northern Ghana
Igwe, Leo
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2017. Towards a South African Literary Post-Pastoralism. Münster: Edition Assemblage, ISBN: 9783960420378
Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya
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2017. Traditional Scholarly Culture in Northern Cameroon, 1900 to the Present
Ayong, Ahmed Khalid
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2017. Trans-Boundary Resource Cooperation in the Lake Victoria Bay: An International Environmental Law Perspective. Nairobi: LawAfrica
Owino, Robert Omondi
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2018. Childbearing in Practice: Expectations and Experiences among the Fulbein Central Mali
Diallo, Brahima
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2018. Dynamics of Idenity Formation and Legal Pluralism: the Case of Customary, State and Religious Dispute Resolutions among the Siltie People, Southern Ethiopia
Adera, Kairedin Tezera
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2018. Ent-Täuschung des weißen Blicks. Rassismussensible Strategien für eine ideologiekritische Filmanalyse. Münster: Edition Assemblage
Dittmann, Julia
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2018. Exploring Ethnically-Marked Varieties of Kenyan English. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 83
Otundo, Billian Khalayi
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2018. Gender and Marriage: An Exploration of Changes in Marital Relations in Southwestern Nigeria, 1914-1960
Asaaju, Morenikeji
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2018. Islamic Construction of Gender in Accra: The Role of Islamic Religious Authorities in Mediating Marital Conflicts
Issaka-Toure, Fulera
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2018. Kenyan Community Radio: Players, Production Processes and Participation
Kimani, Rose
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2018. La vente de produits de santé dans les cars interurbains au Cameroun. Une analyse interactionelle. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 92
Ngawa Mbaho, Carline Liliane
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2018. Lasten tragen, Moderne befördern. Wanderarbeit, Jugend, Erwachsenwerden und ihre geschlechtsspezifischen Differenzierungen in Ghana. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 89
Ungruhe, Christian
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2018. Les discours sur l’homosexualité au Sénégal : L’analyse d’une lutte représentationnelle
Mbaye, Aminata
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2018. Living in African Cities: Urban Spaces, Lifestyles and Social Practices in Everyday Life. Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 18 (BIGSASworks! 8)
Azza Mustafa Babikir Ahmed, Delia Nicoué, Johanna Rieß, Johanna Sarre & Florian Stoll (eds)
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2018. L’usage des mémoires et discours dans les pratiques de légitimation : Le cas de l’autorité locale chez les Lokpa du Nord‐Bénin et chez les Lokpa et Lama du Nord‐Togo (1898‐2010)
Solitoke, Essoham
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2018. Migrations et Savoirs: Stations, itinéraires et périples, de l’apprentissage sur le parcours migratoire entre l’Éthiopie et Allemagne. Paris: L’Harmattan
Nicoué, Délia Evelyne
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2018. Performative Künste in Äthiopien. Internationale Kulturbeziehungen und postkoloniale Artikulationen. Bielefeld: Transcript
Köppen, Grit
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2018. Religion and Nature in Africa: The Case of Matobo National Park and its Vicinity
Mtata, Kupakwashe
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2018. Sensibilisation contre le VIH/SIDA au Cameroun
Mellie, Didérot Djiala
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2018. Space, food, society changing food consumption practices of the emerging urban middle class in Meqele, Ethiopia. A relational approach of local dynamics and spatial manifestations of socio-cultural transformation processes
Degenhart, Barbara
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2018. Spoken Word Goes Digital. Performance Poetry und Social Media in Harare (Simbabwe) und Johannesburg (Südafrika). Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Literaturen und Kunst Afrikas 10
De Haas, Ricarda
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2018. Station Ventures: Road Transport, Roadside Economies and Urban Hustle in Ghana
Stasik, Michael
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2018. The Funeral Performances among the Bukusu of Kenya: A Contribution to Communicative Genre Analysis. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 84
Nganga, Simon Wanjala
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2018. The Politics of Religious Sound. Conflict and the Negotiation of Religious Diversity in Ghana. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 86
Arthur, Justice Anquandah
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2018. Translations of Urban Regulation in Relations between Kigali (Rwanda) and Singapore. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 87
Bock, Stephan
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2018. Transnational Migration-Development Nexus. The Engagement of Ethiopian Diaspora Associations Based in Germany. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 90
Mekonnen, Mulugeta Bezabih
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2018. Une sécurisation foncière urbaine dans l’impasse, exemple de Bamako, Mali. Berlin: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag
Doumbia, Lamine
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2018. ‘That is not who I am’: Knowledge production and female same-sexuality in KwaZulu-Natal
Riley, Taylor
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2019. Bible Translation and Language Elaboration: The Igbo Experience
Oyali, Uchenna Paul
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2019. Child Labour in Sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical Evidence and New Perspectives
Frempong, Raymond Boadi
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2019. Debating Sufism: The Tijāniyya and its Opponents
Hanif, Mohammad Ajmal
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2019. Dynamic Tensions, Civil Societyand Development of the Disability Rights Movement. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 95
Sackey, Emmanuel
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2019. Esttudo da voz verbal em Kizómbò (H.16K)
Teca, Afonso
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2019. Fictioning Namibia as a Space of Desire. An excursion into the literary space of Namibia during colonialism, apartheid and the Liberation Struggle. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Baas, Renzo
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2019. Gender and Social Encounters: Experiences from Africa. University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers No. 23, (BIGSASworks! 9)
Shillah S. Memusi & Adeyemi Balogun (eds)
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2019. Gender in Media Discourse: The Discursive Construction of Gender in Nigerian Newspapers. Münster: LIT, Beiträge zur Afrikaforschung 94
Ahmed, Umar
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2019. Land, Power and Identity: The politics of scale and violent conflict in Masisi, “DR Congo”
Muhire, Blaise Mwanga