Paper – Réseaux sociaux et communication en temps de crises au Mali, ECAS 2013
CTD researcher Boukary Sangaré contributed the paper ‘Réseaux sociaux et communication en temps de crises au Mali : l’exemple des groupes de discussion sur facebook’ to ECAS 2013, 5th European Conference on African Studies ‘African Dynamics in Multipolar World’ (Lisboa: CEI, 2014. 978-989-732-364-5. p.1918-1942). Read theRead More
Edited volume – Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa
Prof. Dr. Jacky Bouju and Prof. Dr. Mirjam de Bruijn edited a new publication on “Ordinary Violence and Social Change in Africa” Ordinary social violence, – i.e. recurrent mental or physical aggression occurring between closely related people – structures social relationships in Africa, and in the world. StudiesRead More
Paper – Connecting in Mobile Communities: an African Case Study
Mirjam de Bruijn’s paper ‘Connecting in Mobile Communities: an African Case Study’ was published in Media Culture Society, vol. 36 no. 3, (2014) pp. 319-335. African geographical mobilities should be understood in terms of their increasingly global development over the last two decades, and as anRead More
Workshop: ‘Methodologies under Duress’ – CTD methods, 31 March – 4 April 2014
The third day of the workshop in Buea, Cameroon (31 March – 4 April 2014) focused on the methodology of the CTD project. Following presentations by Inge Ligtvoet and Prof. Oka Obono, the participants explored the CTD methods of 1) senses, 2) visuals and 3) digitalisation:Read More
A state-of-the-art CTD discussion on methodology
Inge Ligtvoet opened the third day of the workshop by presenting the methods we have been using and discussing since the beginning of the project (see powerpoint and written paper). Methods and Methodology Prof. Oka Obono commented on this presentation by inviting the participants toRead More
A personal exchange between the external collaborators of the CTD project
This exchange was stimulated by the various outings, e.g.; visiting the Buea archives, the port of Limbé, having evening dinners, etc. In a more formal setting, the senior representatives of the different institutes present in the CTD countries shared a session on the possibilities andRead More
Consolidation of the ties between team members and their supervisors
Before coming to Buea conference visitors were paired up with specific CTD team members, who in their turn had to send a paper to their respective “partner”. The reason behind this was that the visitor then had to introduce (and comment on) the read researchRead More
Workshop: ‘Methodologies under Duress’ – report, 31 March – 4 April 2014
Buea, Cameroon, 31 March – 4 April 2014 At the beginning of April 2014, the members of the CTD project met with external collaborators and supervisors from the countries in the CTD project regions. The meeting took the form of a workshop titled ‘Methodologies under Duress’Read More
Conference report: ESSHC 2014, Vienna, 23-26 April 2014
Report on Tenth European Social Science History Conference (Vienna, 23-26 April 2014) by Mirjam de Bruijn Africa Although African Studies (AS) and African History (AH) did not receive the attention it should have in the organization of this conference, it was generally admitted to have been more visible than otherRead More