Alasia Ibifuro, Joy

Contact: joy_alasia@yahoo.at

Research topic: 

 

Renewable Energy Regime and the promise of micro-level energy access in West Africa:

community governance and traditional financial cooperatives as alternatives?

 

 

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies, History and Societies

Research areas:

  • Energy security
  • Indigenous governance
  • Environmental ethics and resource politics

CV and publications

© Alasia Ibifuro Joy

Bodenstein, Carl-Philipp

Contact: c.bodenstein@posteo.eu

Research topic: 

 

Building Ideology:

Planning, Housing and Urban Life in the City of Livingstone throughout the Second Colonial Occupation and Beyond

 

Abstract

Subjects: African History and Societies, (urban) Anthropology, Sociology of Space

Research areas:

  • History of Society
  • Conflict Studies
  • Urban Studies

CV and publications

© Carl-Philipp Bodenstein

Forst, Sebastian

Kontakt: forst_sebastian@yahoo.com

Forschungsthema:

 

 "Ecce Homo, Ecce Waliyo: Kombo Sillah - A Hero on a West African Stage"

 

Abstract

Fachrichtung: Afrikawissenschaften, Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Forschungsschwerpunke:

  • Gesellschafts- und Religionsgeschichte Afrikas
  • Islam in Westafrika
  • Vorkoloniale afrikanische Geschichte
  • Interkulturelle Begegnungs- und Interaktionsgeschichte

CV

Forst, Sebastian

Kontakt: forst_sebastian@yahoo.com

Forschungsthema:

 

 "Ecce Homo, Ecce Waliyo: Kombo Sillah - A Hero on a West African Stage"

 

Abstract

Fachrichtung: Afrikawissenschaften, Geschichte und Gesellschaften Afrikas

Forschungsschwerpunke:

  • Gesellschafts- und Religionsgeschichte Afrikas
  • Islam in Westafrika
  • Vorkoloniale afrikanische Geschichte
  • Interkulturelle Begegnungs- und Interaktionsgeschichte

CV

© Sebastian Forst

© Sebastian Forst

Gärber, Barbara

Contact: bgaerber@gmail.com

Research topic:

 

"Men Own Cattle, Women Own Gardens, Or?"

Gendered Land and Livestock Tenure in the Context of Livelihood Change and Social Transformations among the Jie Pastoralists of Karamoja, Uganda.

 

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies

Research areas:

  • Gender relations
  • Land and resource rights and social change in agrarian and pastoralist societies of East Africa 

CV and publications

© Barbara Gärber

Gartner, Katharina

Contact: katharina.gartner@univie.ac.at

Research topic:


Creativity and Greatness. 

Young Musicians and their (trans)local Relations in Accra, Ghana and beyond (2013-2018) (Working Title)

 

Abstract 

Subjects: African Studies, Youth Studies and Anthropology of Music

Research areas: 

  • Major themes: youth, young adulthood and generations; music, expressive culture and creativity, Relations and relationships
  • Regions: urban West Africa (especially Ghana), Malawi.
  • Methods: ethnography with multiple methods of documentation, biography

Academic Profile 

© Katharina Gartner

Mtwana, Monika

Contact: monika.mtwana@gmx.net

Research topic: 

 

Christian beliefs in the worldview of loval healers in Malawi


Abstract

Subjects: African Studies, History and Societies

Research region: Southeast Africa

Research areas: 

  • Traditional beliefs and practices in Southeast Africa
  • Oral History/ Oral Literature
  • Christian missionary

CV and publications

© Monika Mtwana

Odenigbo, Emmanuel

Contact: odesco701@gmail.com

Research topic: 

 


Concepts of Liberal Democracy and Communalism in African Philosophy:
A Philosophical Investigation

 

 

Abstract

Subjects: African Studies, African History and Societies, Philosophy

Research areas: 

  • African Philosophy
  • Communalism in post-colonial African societies
  • Democracy and Liberalism in post-colonial African societies

CV and publications

© Emmanuel Odenigbo