Dr. Jonna Both – Youth in the Aftermath of Conflict: Perspectives from Yumbe District, North-Western Uganda
Youth in the Aftermath of Conflict: Perspectives from Yumbe District, North-Western Uganda While the research takes place in Yumbe District in North Western Uganda, a region beyond the immediate scope of the CTD project, the themes of her research link up with those of theRead More
Adamou Amadou MA – Entre “détresse’’ et l’inter-connectivité: le cas des Mbororo réfugiés sur les frontières Cameroun-Centrafrique
Entre “détresse’’ et l’inter-connectivité : le cas des Mbororo réfugiés sur les frontières Cameroun-Centrafrique Between duress and interconnectivity: Mbororo refugees at the Cameroun-CAR border Notre recherche axe sur la situation des Mbororo venus de la République centrafricaine fuyant les répressions des rebelles et des grandsRead More
Inge Butter MA – Change and continuity within the Walad Djifir’s (inter)national networks
Change and continuity within the Walad Djifir’s (inter)national networks: Connectivity and groundedness amongst nomadic Arabs of Central Chad (working title) The main goal of this ethnography is to analyse the social and economic networks of which the Chadian Walad Djifir are a part, by lookingRead More
Inge Ligtvoet MA – Between expectations and opportunities: urban youth navigating duress in a globalized southern Nigeria
Between expectations and opportunities: urban youth navigating duress in a globalized southern Nigeria This project looks at the ways in which youth in Nigeria navigate their lives in a context of experiencing long-term socioeconomic uncertainty and political insecurity (duress). Key to understanding this navigation, isRead More
Boukary Sangaré MA – Conflit et mobilité dans l’espace Saharo-Sahélien malien
Conflit et mobilité dans l’espace Saharo-Sahélien malien : les médias sociaux chez les éleveurs pasteurs/nomades peuls et Touaregs en question Cette étude a la particularité de s’intéresser à un phénomène nouveau, les médias sociaux dans un contexte de conflit, qui est en train de transformerRead More
Dr. Souleymane Abdoulaye Adoum – Communication et Violences au Tchad : Le cas du Moyen-Chari et du Guera (1900-2010)
Communication et Violences au Tchad: Le cas du Moyen-Chari et du Guera (1900-2010) Communication and Violence in Chad : the case of Moyen-Chari and the Guera (1900-2010) The political history of Chad is characterized by a series of violent crises. From slave raiding to colonizationRead More
Catherina Wilson MA – Information flows along the CAR-DRC border
The recent CAR (Central African Republic) conflict forced many people to flee their country. Over ninety-thousand refugees have been officially registered in DR Congo alone. The majority of those who are assisted reside in refugee camps; a minority has opted to look for opportunities elsewhere.Read More
Paper – Mobile pastoralists in Central and West Africa: Between conflict, mobile telephony and (im)mobility
CTD project leader Mirjam de Bruijn, PhD researchers Adamou Amadou and Boukary Sangaré, and associate PhD researcher Elie Lewa Doksala wrote the paper ‘Mobile pastoralists in Central and West Africa: between conflict, mobile telephony and (im)mobility’ for The Future of Pastoralism, Revue scientifique et technique (InternationalRead More
Book chapter – The Routledge Companion to digital ethnography
Mirjam de Bruijn wrote a chapter for The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography, edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, and Genevieve Bell (New York: Routledge, 2017): ‘Mediated Political Agency in Contested Africa’. From the Introduction of the chapter: “This chapter scrutinizes the role of smallRead More
International attention for the situation in Anglophone Cameroon
– 15 March 2017. The Executive Committee of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) have sent a letter to the UN, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and to the President of the Republic of Cameroon, expressing their utmost concernRead More