Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien und transdisziplinäre ForschungForschungsnetzwerk Afrika
Die Afrikaforschung in Basel blickt auf eine lange Tradition in diversen Institutionen in der Region zurück und wird durch das Bekenntnis der Universität Basel zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika weiter gefördert. Unser Zentrum ist die Schnittstelle für den Austausch zwischen den verschiedenen Disziplinen und Fakultäten sowie den ausseruniversitären Partnerinstitutionen im Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika.
Auf der Grundlage der vorhandenen Kompetenzen und Forschungsinteressen setzt das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika Schwerpunkte in sechs Forschungsbereichen. Zudem verfügen die angeschlossenen Fachbereiche, Departemente und Institutionen über jeweils eigene Forschungsprofile.
Forschungsbereiche
Die Forschung in den fünf Kernbereichen trägt dazu bei, wichtige Lücken im Verständnis des raschen Wandels afrikanischer Gesellschaften zu schliessen, konzeptionelle und methodische Herausforderungen in der interdisziplinären und disziplinären Forschung anzugehen und die sozioökonomische Entwicklung auf dem Kontinent voranzutreiben.
Fachbereiche, Departemente und Partnerorganisationen
Das Forschungsnetzwerk Afrika basiert auf den Kompetenzen und Aktivitäten verschiedener Forschungsgruppen, Fachbereiche und Departemente der Universität Basel und von Partnerorganisationen. Sie alle tragen zur Forschung zu, in, mit und für Afrika sowie zu Lehre und Ausbildung am ZASB bei.
Aktuelle Publikationen
Calls
| Ambre Alfredo (Urban Studies) | PRECURBICA — Cotonou case study |
| David Azilagbetor (Biomedical Ethics) | Ethics of Animal Experimentation. Improving Ethical Evaluations, Involving Patients, and Advancing Transparent Governance |
| Miriam Badoux (Anthropology) | Corruption, Conflict and Cities in East and West Africa |
| Mamadou Oury Balde | Pan-Africanism in Practice: Guinean Solidarity with Post-Independent Mozambique (1975-1984) |
| Stephanie Bishop (African Studies) | Zambian Water Diaries: Technology in Practice |
| Chiara Carrara (African Studies) | Bridging Disciplines: Soil Transmitted Helmithiasis in Zanzibar through the Lens of History and Medical Anthropology. An Interdisciplinary Approach |
| Kaue Nogarotto Crima Bellini (Anthropology) | Transatlantic Cruising: racialized spaces, mobility, intimacy, and Queer worlding |
| Raja Daoua (Economics) | Emerging Trends, Developments and Opportunities of Islamic Finance: The Moroccan Case |
| Masa Davidovic (Epidemiology) | Cancer prevention for women living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Maria Esther Leticia Eburi Losoha (Epidemiology) | Improvement of immunization uptake among pregnant women in Equatorial Guinea: Mixed methods approach |
| Anaïs Galli (Epidemiology) | Effectiveness and Sustainability of a Multi-component Hand Hygiene Intervention in Primary Healthcare: Evidence from Mali and Burkina Faso |
| Andrea Graf (History) | Out of Sight? Bilharzia in Madagascar as a Global History of ‘Neglected Tropical Diseases’, 1950 to the present |
| Semhar Haile (Urban Studies) | PRECURBICA — Freetown case study |
| Sang Hoon Han (Theology) | The role of religious NGOs in the peacebuilding process in post-civil war Burundi |
| Nadira Haribe (Soziologie) | Care Under Suspicion: A Feminist Ethnography of Ethical Communities in the Context of Counterterrorism Legislation in Switzerland |
| Max Hufschmidt (History) | The Last Missionary Frontier: Health Care, Power, and Development in Lesotho in the 20th Century |
| Seyram Kaali (Epidemiology) | A Prospective Cohort Study on Early Life Household Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Childhood |
| Mellisa Chipo Kaliofasi (History) | Death and Belongings: African Customs, the Colonial State and Deceased Estates Management in Southern Rhodesia |
| Tebuho Winnie Kanyimba (African Studies) | Tribe, Nation and the Prospect of a New Switzerland |
| Adina Kwakye (African Studies) | Beyond the Return Initiative |
| Wahab Lawundeh (African Studies) | |
| Frida Lyonga (African Studies) | Homosexuality and the African: Change and Persistence of Homophobic Attitudes among African Migrants in Switzerland |
| Angelinah Maponya (African Studies) | Ecological Palimpsests: Healing Landscapes and the Material Legacies of Extractive Industries in the Global South |
| Matthias Maurer Rueda (Sociology) | Citizenship, Immigration and political identity: Ethnographic studies of retribalization among political activists in Switzerland |
| Frederick Gyamfi Mensah (Theology) | Reactions to Racism and Xenophobia in the Context of Global Migration: Ghanaian Christians in Switzerland and South Africa |
| Abdelradi Mohammed (Economics) | CGE analysis of Water Management |
| Regina Molomo (Epidemiology) | Reproductive health effects of pesticide exposure on children in the rural Western Cape, South Africa |
| Barbara Müller (African Studies) | The Student Movement and the Matabeleland Conflict in Zimbabwe |
| Ndeshimona Namupala (Sociology) | A study on transformative social transfer systems in rural households of Zambezi region, Namibia |
| Lesly Neema Nassila (Sustainability Studies) | EXPECT-AGRI - Expectations vs. reality: how European legislation reshape value chains and power dynamics? The case of cocoa, coffee, and palm oil in Côte d'Ivoire |
| Corinne Othenin-Girard (Sociology) | Transhumanism, Technological Colonisation, Functional Diversity |
| Raffaele Perniola (History) | Shellac and Shacks - Early Namibian Musical Records and Modern Sound Media in the Context of Migrant Labour, 1950s–1970s |
| Claudine Rakotomanana (Anthropology) | Transnational union between Malagasy women and non-Malagasy men: compelling attraction on sex, affect, money and power |
| Melina Rutishauser (Anthropology) | Participation in Social Health Protection: Women’s Engagement in Tanzania |
| Anita Sackyi (African Studies) | Teacher Educators' Research and Teaching Practices: a comparative Study of the Ghana-Switzerland Relationship |
| Stéphane Saintil (French Literature) | Au premier coup de canon d’alarme, les villes disparaissent et la nation est debout » : Pour une analyse de la fabrique littéraire de la nation haïtienne (1804–1915) |
| Melanie Sampayo Vidal (African Studies) | Violences et Résistances dans le théâtre postcolonial au Mali |
| Samuel Sarpanin (Theology) | Akan Christology - towards a contemporary Akan Christology |
| Nathalie Claire Schöbitz (Urban Studies) | When it rains, it pours: changing climate patterns, infrastructure and the African city (Kampala) |
| Rufino Sitoe (African Studies) | Violent Extremism and Youth: Public Policies as factors of (De) Mobilization in Mozambique |
| Mathias Tanner (Theology) | Interfaith Peacebuilding. Examining the Impact of Interfaith Peacebuilding Initiatives in a Violent Political Conflict with an Ethno-Religious Dimension in Jos, Nigeria |
| Bayron van Wyk (African Studies) | From Homeland to Eco-Estates, Land and Racial Capitalism in Rehoboth, Namibia |
| Pius Jonas Vögele (African Studies) | Afrofuturism Echoes Back – Hip Hop’s Sonic Fictions from Black Atlantis |
| Berihun Wagaw (African Studies) | Dealing with belonging in Times of Crisis: The Impact of the Tigray War on Ethiopian Migrant Communities in Switzerland. |
| Sophie Zimdars (African Studies) | Conserving Colonialism? Funding of Nature Conservation and Land Distribution in Namibia |
| Samuel Bachmann (African Studies) | A History of African Heritage in Swiss Museums. Provenances, Protagonists, Prospects | 2025 |
| Jung Yeon (Jacqui) Cho (Political Science) | Situating Peacemaking in Politics: Contestations over Peace Mediation at the Domestic, Geopolitical, and World Order Levels | 2025 |
| Tolulope Esther Fadeyi (History) | Engendering the Colony: Maternal Health, Indigenous Knowledge and European Medicine in Southwest Nigeria, 1925-1960 | 2025 |
| Samantha Gamez (Political Science) | Reverberations of Reform: How Kenya's New Constitution affects Local Peacebuilding | 2025 |
| Jennifer Giroux (Anthropology) | Petro-Peace in the Niger Delta: Exploring the Production and Sustainability of Peaceful Spaces within the Context of Oil-Related Violence | 2025 |
| Franziska Jenni (Anthropology) | Making Space – Contemporary Photography in Bamako, Mali | 2025 |
| Eva Kocher (History) | Development through Insurance? Postcolonial Insurance Cooperation and the Formation of the Insurance Industry in West Africa | 2025 |
| Simone Markoff (Environmental Sciences) | Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Food Security: A Multi-method Case Study of Tanzania | 2025 |
| Lotte Nielsen (Anthropology) | A Pan-African Arts Centre Reopens in Colonial Heritage House and other Urban Formations: Towards an Urban Linealogy through Johannesburg Inner City | 2025 |
| Nesisa Analisa Nyathi (Environmental Sciences) | Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing Indicators in the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area: An Integrative Approach | 2025 |
| Peter Ssekkadde (Epidemiology) | Evaluation and Optimization of an Educational Intervention to Mitigate Pesticide Exposure through Behavior Change among Ugandan Smallholder Farmers: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial | 2025 |
| Faisal Nooh Ali (Epidemiology) | Epidemiology and control of hypertension in Somaliland | 2024 |
| Thomas Betschart (Urban Studies) | Infra-Incremental Urbanism and Differential Mobility in Ethiopia | 2024 |
| Andrea Christina Buhl-Colmsee (Anthropology) | Images of Palliative Care in Tanzania – A Hospital-Ethnography in a Cancer Clinic in Dar es Salaam | 2024 |
| Kai Florian Herzog (History) | Violent Economies: Everyday Violence, Ignorance, and the Making of Colonial Order in the Namaqualand Borderlands, c. 1880-1903 | 2024 |
| Olutoyin Ikuteyijo (Epidemiology) | Understanding Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescent Girls and Young Women's Experiences of Gender-Based Violence in Low-Income Communities in Nigeria | 2024 |
| Katienegnimin Seydou Konate (French Literature) | Bestiaire et biotope végétal dans la littérature de jeunesse de Côte d’Ivoire | 2024 |
| Thanushiyah Korn (History) | Development, Cooperation, and Conflict. A Global History of Rwanda’s Path to the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi | 2024 |
| Sindi-Leigh McBride (African Studies) | The Politics and Poetics of Climate Change in South Africa and Nigeria | 2024 |
| Francis Daudi Mlacha (History) | A History of the Insurance Business in Tanzania and Kenya, 1945-2006 | 2024 |
| Brian Ngwenya (History) | Vectors, Villains, Victims: The Socio-Cultural and Political Implications of African Policemen's Service in the BSAP in late colonial Zimbabwe, c.1960-1980 | 2024 |
| Cita Wetterich (Gender Studies) | Violence against male Refugees – Patterns, Factors and Consequences for Individuals and Communities | 2024 |
| Ursula Wüthrich Grossenbacher (African Studies) | Impact of religion/spirituality (R/S) on the outcome of HIV care in different health settings in rural and urban Zimbabwe with a special focus on adolescent patients | 2024 |
| Temitope Christina Adebayo-Ojo (Epidemiology) | A new global Air Quality Health Index based on the 2021 WHO Air Quality Guideline Values | 2023 |
| Toon Dirkx (Political Science) | The Political Stability of Post-Insurgent States: Institutional Legacies of Rebel Governance in Eritrea and South Sudan | 2023 |
| Kirubel Mussie (Biomedical Ethics) | Ethical issues in the healthcare of older adults in Ethiopia | 2023 |
| Julia Rensing (African Studies) | Trouble Archives: Namibia Auto/Biographical Accounts and Artistic Practices as Archival Interventions | 2023 |
| Shreya Shrikhande (Epidemiology) | Climate change and cardiovascular diseases in India and South Africa: Impacts, perceptions and policy responses | 2023 |
| Mamane Tassiou Amadou (Anthropology) | Sur la dynamique des fada des jeunes dans la ville de Zinder, Niger | 2022 |
| Olalekan Oluwaseyi Arowosegbe (Epidemiology) | Air pollution exposure assessment in sparsely monitored settings; applying machine-learning methods with remote sensing data in South Africa | 2022 |
| Silvia Balzan (Anthropology) | "Don't Understand Me Too Soon" Pancho Guedes and the Protestant Missons Socio-spatial Alternatives in Late Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique | 2022 |
| Sharmarke Jama Dugsiye (Sociology) | Pastoral Conflict Management and the Role of Indigenous Knowledge and Customary Institutions in Conflict Resolution, Somali Region, Ethiopia | 2022 |
| Herry Mapesi (Epidemiology) | Non-communicable diseases in people living with HIV in rural Africa: tackling the double burden | 2022 |
| Bédjou Prisca N'Dri (Epidemiology) | Malaria in Elibou region, south of Côte d’Ivoire: transmission and insecticide resistance | 2022 |
| Marta Rudnicka (Anthropology) | Tastescapes in Ghana. Eating, cooking and culinary praxis in Northern Ghana | 2022 |
| Giulia Scotto (Urban Studies) | ENI's "Grande Disegno Africano": Oil Infrastructure between Decolonization and Neo-Imperialism | 2022 |
| Ernest Sewordor (Urban Studies) | Race, Infrastructure, and the Evolution of Gold-mining Hinterlands in South-western Gold Coast (Ghana), c. 1900-1957 | 2022 |
| Helene Widmer (Sociology) | Interdependenz von Individuum und Gesellschaft in Bezug auf Religion und Glaube. Am Beispiel der methodistischen Kirche und der Akan in Ghana. Does religion enhance or undermine work ethic? | 2022 |
| Balz Andrea Alter (Science of Religion) | Back from greener pastures | 2021 |
| Alain Amstutz (Clinical Research) | Supporting Lesotho on the way towards the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets: Operational and clinical research addressing HIV/AIDS care in resource-limited settings | 2021 |
| Nina Brunner (Epidemiology) | Treatment seeking and case management for suspected severe malaria in the context of implementing rectal artesunate | 2021 |
| Jerry Hella (Epidemiology) | Understanding the epidemiology and transmission of tuberculosis among adults in rural and urban Tanzania | 2021 |
| Andrea Azizi Kifyasi (History) | Neither Saviour nor Exploiter: A Historical Study of China's Medical Assistance in Post-Colonial Tanzania | 2021 |
| Andrea Leuenberger (Epidemiology) | Investigating health impacts and equity in communities surrounding large natural resource extraction projects in sub-Saharan Africa: a contribution to sustainable development | 2021 |
| Ulrike Lühe (Political Science) | Developing the African Union Transitional Justice Policy. A Study in the Practice(s) of Expertise in International Relations | 2021 |
| Nancy Matowo (Epidemiology) | Dynamics of insecticide resistance in Anopheles arabiensis and Culex pipiens complex, and its associations to agricultural practices in southern Tanzania | 2021 |
| Céline Mbilo (Epidemiology) | Rabies Epidemiology in DR Congo and Chad | 2021 |
| Janet Michel (Epidemiology) | Towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) policy roll-out experience in South Africa : how and why policy-practice gaps come about in a UHC context | 2021 |
| Jamie Pring (Political Science) | Making the Middle: Localizing Inclusivity in the IGAD-led Mediation in South Sudan (2013-2015) | 2021 |
| Khadeeja "Haddy" Sarr (African Studies) | Narratives of Identity, Multi-Sited Biographies, and Transnational Life-Modes of Highly Qualified Migrants. Senegambia Migrants in Switzerland and Swiss Migrants in Senegambia | 2021 |
| Joëlle Schwarz (Epidemiology) | Family Planning in Burundi: Hegemonic Discourse, Reproductive Navigation and Embodied Experiences in a Fragile Context | 2021 |
| Kuwawenaruwa August Joachim Shayo (Epidemiology) | The effects of Jazia prime vendor system in complementing the existing pharmaceutical supply chain across public healthcare facilities in Tanzania | 2021 |
| Kpongbo Etienne Angora (Epidemiology) | Population genetic structure and hybridization of schistosomes in schoolchildren in Côte d’Ivoire | 2020 |
| Owusuaa Adwoa Bobie (Sociology) | Rebranding African, Reclothing Africa: The influence of Emerging Designers in the Production of Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism in Nigerian Fashion Industry | 2020 |
| Anna Christen (Anthropology) | Walking Together. Perils of Participation in Anthropology and Philosophy of Action. A Case Study in Post-Apartheid South Africa | 2020 |
| Dominik Dietler (Epidemiology) | Impact of mining projects on environmental determinants of health and associated health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: insights for guiding impact assessment practice | 2020 |
| Jin Ding (African Studies) | China in Africa: Perspectives on development and emergence | 2020 |
| Jacob Geuder (Sociology) | Visualizing Urban Struggles: Video Activism as Utopian Practice | 2020 |
| Lianne Gonsalves (Epidemiology) | Understanding the role of pharmacies as contraceptive outlets for young people (ages 18-24) in Coastal Kenya | 2020 |
| Stephen Asol Kapinde (Theology) | Political Sermons in Kenyas Quest for Democratic Governance between 1986 and 2010: A case Study of the selected sermons from the three Anglican Clergy | 2020 |
| Maren Larsen (Urban Studies) | Worlding Home: Peacekeepers, Camp Space, and Urbanity in Goma, DRC | 2020 |
| Shakuntala Mhlanga (Epidemiology) | An epidemiological cohort study of children and adolescents investigating neurobehavioural effects from pesticide exposure and e-media use in South Africa | 2020 |
| Peter Ayoola Oderinde (African Studies) | The role of Internet in migrants’ Christianity: A case study of Nigerian Pentecostal churches in Switzerland | 2020 |
| Natalie Tarr (African Studies) | Interpreting the Administration: Burkina Faso's Courts in Translation | 2020 |
| Frederik Unseld (Anthropology) | Making Art Work: Articulating Art and Urban Marginality in Kisumu, Kenya | 2020 |
| Juliane Krenz (Environmental Sciences) | Land degradation and Carbon erosion in Southern Africa | 2019 |
| Dennis Massue (Epidemiology) | Long-Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Net (LLINs) for malaria control in Tanzania: Barriers to physical and chemical protection | 2019 |
| Grace Mhalu (Epidemiology) | Identifying community determinants of health seeking behaviour and the contribution of socio-cultural and gender aspects to improve tuberculosis case detection in Tanzania | 2019 |
| Langelihle Mlotshwa (Epidemiology) | Exploring incident HIV in Pregnant Women and Sexual Risk Behaviours and Practices in Soweto, South Africa | 2019 |
| Betty Bukenya Nambuusi (Epidemiology) | Assessing the effects of interventions on child and maternal health-related outcomes in Uganda | 2019 |
| Aïdas Sanogo (Anthropology) | Corruption, conflict and cities in West and East Africa | 2019 |
| Ousmane Seydi (History) | Voyages et construction d'une identité savante à l'epoque moderne. Michel Adanson (1727-1806): un homme des Lumières en quête d'une reconnaissance scientifique | 2019 |
| Sandra Staudacher (Anthropology) | Cosmopolitan Aging in Urban Zanzibar: Elderhood, Health and Transnational Care Spaces Related to Oman | 2019 |
| Samuel Andreas Admasie (African Studies) | Dynamics of Assertive Unionism in Ethiopia | 2018 |
| Melanie Boehi (History) | A South African social garden: people, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden | 2018 |
| Andrea Grolimund (Anthropology) | Ageing, Agency and Health in Dar es Salaam | 2018 |
| Tanja Hammel (History) | Shaping Science and Society at the Cape – A Relational History of Mary Elizabeth Barber | 2018 |
| Anne Laube (Sociology) | The Organisation of Violence in the Actions of the Lord’s Resistance Army | 2018 |
| Susann Ludwig (African Studies) | La chance: En Ethnography. University Graduates making Sense of Uncertainty in Bamako, Mali | 2018 |
| Victoria Amma Agyeiwaah Osei-Bonsu (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Representations of the African Other in Selected Works of Joseph Conrad | 2018 |
| Julius Ssempira (Epidemiology) | Bayesian spatial-temporal modeling of malaria risk in Uganda during 2009-2016, and the effect of control interventions and health system strengthening | 2018 |
| Carole Ammann (Anthropology) | The Work of State Imageries: Women and the Imageries of the State in Guinea | 2017 |
| Christopher Barratt (Environmental Sciences) | Using Next Generation Sequencing data to estimate the Biodiversity value of the Coastal Forests of East Africa | 2017 |
| Julia Büchele (Sociology) | Expat Spouses in Kampala, Uganda: An Ethnography of Migration from the Global North | 2017 |
| Gabriela Bueno Bittencourt Silva (Environmental Sciences) | Lacuna Mozambique : adding an important piece to the African jigsaw puzzle | 2017 |
| Beryl Akoth Bwong (Environmental Sciences) | At the crossroads of two biodiversity hotspots : the biogeographic patterns of Shimba Hills, Kenya | 2017 |
| Mari Dumbaugh (Epidemiology) | Influencing Factors on the Utilization of Maternal Health Services and Uptake of Family Planning in the Context of Conditional Cash Transrers, South Kivu, DRC | 2017 |
| Séverine Erismann (Epidemiology) | Children’s intestinal parasite and nutritional patterns in face of integrated school garden, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in central Burkina Faso | 2017 |
| Kristina Keitel (Epidemiology) | e-POCT: Improving health outcomes of febrile childresn in Tanzania through innovative point-of-care technologies at the primary care level | 2017 |
| James Merron (African Studies) | Travelling technologies of the environment: Knowledges of water management and the transformation of land in South Africa | 2017 |
| Olivier Moreillon (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Reading the Post-Apartheid City. Urbanite and Capetonian Literary Topographies in Selected Texts Beyond 2000 | 2017 |
| Myra Posluschny-Treuner (Political Science) | Land grabbing or an essential move towards development? A case study of Ethiopia | 2017 |
| Sabine Renggli (Epidemiology) | Promoting Universal Health Coverage in Tanzania: An Evaluation of the Initiative to Strengthen Affordability and Quality of Health Care (ISAQH) | 2017 |
| Sabine Schultz (Anthropology) | The Game of Personal Politics or How to Rule a Kingdom. The State of Affairs in Rey Bouba/North-East Cameroon. | 2017 |
| Sokhna Thiam (Epidemiology) | Spatial analysis of diarrhoea and environmental risk factors in an urban context in Senegal, West Africa | 2017 |
| Vladimir Wingate (Environmental Sciences) | Terrestrial ecosystem change monitoring: Satellite remote sensing the Namibian savannah biomes in the context of the global carbon cycle and local livelihoods | 2017 |
| Michael Aeby (History) | Zimbabwe's Gruelling Transition: Interim power-sharing and conflict management in Southern Africa | 2016 |
| Adrian Indermaur (Environmental Sciences) | Comparative ecology and phylogeography in east African cichild fishes | 2016 |
| Bobby Luthra Sinha (African Studies) | A Comparative Interpretation of Peoples’ Movements: Actors, Evolving Consciousness and Democratic Imagination in India and South Africa | 2016 |
| Henry Frimpong Owusu (Epidemiology) | Insecticide Resistance Monitoring – a review of current methodology | 2016 |
| Joschka Philipps (Sociology) | Crystallizing Contention. A cumulative dissertation on youth, politics, and urban violence in Conakry, Kampala, and beyond | 2016 |
| Claudette Simone Sutherland (Epidemiology) | An elimination investment case (EIC) for human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense (“sleeping sickness”) | 2016 |
| Albert Tibaijuka (African Studies) | Multinational Mines and Communities of Place: Revisiting the Stakeholder Dialogue Discourse from Geita, Tanzania | 2016 |
| Marcel Dreier (History) | Health Care, Welfare, and Development in Rural Africa: Catholic health services in Ifakara/Tanzania in the 20th century | 2015 |
| Thomas Fürst (Epidemiology) | Assessing morbidity and burden due to neglected tropical diseases at different geographical scales | 2015 |
| Nanina Guyer (History) | Picturing Secrecy - A History of the Visualization of "Secret Societies" in Historical Photographs from West Africa | 2015 |
| Barbara Heer (Anthropology) | Spaces of Encounter and Unequal Neighbourhoods. A Comparative Ethnography of Agency, Space and Difference in Maputo and Johannesburg | 2015 |
| Nicolas Schicketanz (History) | A History of Teacher Training Colleges in South Africa and the Effects of Teacher Training on Identity Formation | 2015 |
| Demissie Ferdissa Bekele (Political Science) | Ethnic Decentralization and Negotiating Statehood in Urban Ethiopia: A Case Study of Adama and Hawassa Cities | 2014 |
| Christine Giustizieri-Haberstroh (Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies) | Writing the City. Narratives of Johannesburg’s Urban Space in Contemporary South African Literature | 2014 |
| Sara Anna Hellmüller (Political Science) | Bridging the Gap – Examining Local Dimensions of International Peacebuilding in the DR Congo | 2014 |
| Eveline Hürlimann (Epidemiology) | Effects of parasitic infections on clinical outcomes, self-rated quality of life and physical fitness in Côte d’Ivoire | 2014 |
| Hans Christoph Liedtke (Environmental Sciences) | The Evolution of Terrestrial Breeding in African Amphibians | 2014 |
| Aurélie A. Righetti (Epidemiology) | Aetiology of anaemia and public health implications in the Taabo health demographic surveillance system, south-central Côte d’Ivoire | 2014 |
| Sandra Rubli (Political Science) | Transitional Justice and State-Formation in Burundi | 2014 |
| Patricia Schwärzler (Epidemiology) | “ De nos jours, chacun fait ce qu’il veut ” ? Dynamiques des relations sociales et pratiques sexuelles dans le contexte du VIH/sida à Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2014 |
| Michelle Engeler (Anthropology) | Youth and the State in Guinea: Meandering Lives | 2013 |
| Jana Gerold (Anthropology) | Full of Life: old age and care in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | 2013 |
| Katharina Elisabeth Heitz Tokpa (Anthropology) | Trust and Distrust in Rebel-Held Côte d’Ivoire | 2013 |
| Verena JeanRichard-dit-Bressel (Epidemiology) | Crowding at Lake Chad: An Integrated Approach to Demographic and Health Surveillance of Mobile Pastoralists and Their Animals | 2013 |
| Andrea Kaufmann (Anthropology) | Spaces of Imagination Associational Life and the State in Post-War, Urban Liberia | 2013 |
| Rita Kesselring (Anthropology) | Bodies of Truth. Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa | 2013 |
| Richard Faustine Sambaiga (Anthropology) | Sexual inter-subjectivity and the quest for social well-being : an ethnographic inquiry of adolescent sexuality in urban Southern Tanzania | 2013 |
| Pascal Schmid (History) | Medicine, Faith and Politics in Agogo. A history of health care delivery in rural Ghana, ca 1925 to 1980 | 2013 |