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Publication: Infectious Images: Viral Internet Content in the Democratic Republic of Congo
This article co-authored by Lesley Braun explores how and why digital content is shared and moved into circulation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It describes how visual genres such as print cartoons and popular painting now overlap…
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Publication: African languages and Spanish among Equatoguineans in Madrid
Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr's article is based on semi-directed, sociolinguistic interviews with Equatoguineans of two ethnic groups: Bubi and Fang. The results show the importance of relating data to the contemporary as well as historical…
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Congratulations to our new graduates!
At the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences on 12 September 2020, numerous MA students and PhD candidates in African Studies or with an Africa Focus received their diploma. Congratulations to all of you!
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Afrika-Bulletin Nr. 179: Frauen in Bewegung
Frauenbewegungen in Afrika
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Publication: Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere. A Postcolonial Programme
In her book, Alexandra Hofmännner argues that new concepts and analytical approaches are necessary to investigate current global dynamics in science, technology and society, so as to deliver insights that the recent expansion of STS…
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Publication: Multinational Mines and Communities of Place: Revisiting the Stakeholder Dialogue Discourse in Geita, Tanzania
In his PhD thesis, Albert Tibaijuka demonstrates that analysis of the antagonistic relationship between multinational mines and communities, offers a productive way through which deeper understanding of corporate–community relations,…
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Publication: Flood Levels and Borderlines – Livestock Farming and Evictions Resistance at the !Garib/Orange River in Southern Africa
In their contribution, Luregn Lenggenhager (ZASB) and Andrea Rosengarten (Northwestern University) analyse the relation between flood levels, borderlines and resistance to forced removals and evictions at the Orange River in South Africa.
Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography
In an essay published in The Conversation, Lorena Rizzo reflects on women’s agency as photographic subjects. The article draws on her recent book Shades of Empire (Wits University Press 2020).