Youth
Tchad : IYINA – Les jeunes sont fatigués, le régime réprime
– Deuhb Emmanuel Zyzou, 17 avril 2017. #FreeNadjo #FreeSollo Un an après avoir gagné l’élection présidentielle, largement contestée par la classe politique et la société civile, le président tchadien, Idriss Deby Itno fait face aujourd’hui à un phénomène nouveau et incontrôlable : une jeunesse revendicative. DesRead More
Prof. dr. Mirjam de Bruijn
Mirjam de Bruijn is an anthropologist whose work has a clearly interdisciplinary character with a preference for contemporary history and cultural studies. She focuses on the interrelationship between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology. Mirjam is an Africanist with a focus on West and Central Africa. She did,Read More
Dr. Jonna Both
Jonna Both started working in March 2015 as a postdoctoral researcher within the VICI project ‘Connecting in Times of Duress’ of professor Mirjam de Bruijn. For her BA she studied African Languages and Cultures at Leiden University from 2003-2006 and specialized in African History. She also followed a fewRead More
Inge Ligtvoet MA
Inge Ligtvoet studied African Studies at Leiden University. She graduated in 2011 with her thesis ‘Fear and Faith: Uncertainty, misfortune and spiritual insecurity in Calabar, Nigeria’. She carried out research in Calabar during a seven month fieldwork period in 2010-2011. The thesis addresses the phenomenonRead More
Catherina Wilson MA
Catherina Wilson studied African Studies at the Leiden University, where she graduated in 2012. She carried out research in Kisangani, DR Congo, and wrote a thesis entitled ‘The Congolese Yankee: Language and Identity among Youth in Kisangani’. In this work she deals with the waysRead More
Mirjam de Bruijn, NOS, 23 July 2016
Mirjam de Bruijn on the conflict in Mali on NOS-Radio 1-Journaal (Dutch radio news, 50.00-56.00 min.).