Eefje Gilbert – Field Report 2: Cameroon, July-November 2013
Visits to Bagyeli settlements Bibira and Meboua, 21 September 2013 Driving along the road from Kribi town to Kribi port I notice the project owner RAZEL has already started enlarging the road, turning it into an even worse mud trap than it was before. IRead More
Eefje Gilbert – Field Report 1: Cameroon, July-November 2013
“In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.” – Ben Okri Everything happens on the road here in Cameroon,Read More
Collecting & Communicating, Episodes from Timbuktu
Collecting & Communicating Episodes from Timbuktu Lecture given by Shamil Jeppie at the University of Leiden on the 17th of September 2013.
Adamou Amadou – Everybody has a bike: Dutch bicycle culture
Adamou Amadou is a PhD student at Leiden University. Click here to read more about his research project ‘Entre “détresse’’ et l’inter-connectivité : le cas des Mbororo réfugiés sur les frontières Cameroun-Centrafrique’.
ADB Documentary – The Impact of the Enugu-Bamenda Highway
This short documentary, produced by the African Development Bank Group (ADB), shows the impact of the construction of a highway on social life along the 443 km axis connecting Enugu (Nigeria) to Bamenda (Cameroon). The ADB, Japanese government and the governments of Nigeria and Cameroon have invested inRead More
Inge Butter – Photo report: Bangui, CAR, 2013
Inge Butter is a PhD student at the ASC and Leiden University. Her fieldwork takes place in Chad with a recently-explored link into CAR. This was her third field visit.
CRESC Conference 2013: In/vulnerabilities and Social Change, London, 4-6 September 2013
The CRESC Conference ‘In/vulnerabilities and Social Change: Precarious Lives and Experimental Knowledge’ took place at SOAS, London 4-6 September 2013. CTD researcher Inge Butter presented a paper within the panel entitled ‘Managing in/vulnerabilities in postcolonial Africa – anticipatory and experimental approaches to uncertain futures’ andRead More
Inge Ligtvoet – The fieldwork journey: Nigeria and Cameroon, April – July 2013
My first fieldwork in Nigeria began up in the air, as we were approaching the runway of Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed Airport. The young man next to me, who’d been awfully quiet throughout the flight, took his camera and started making aerial pictures of Nigeria’s economicRead More
Conference Report: ECAS 2013 – African dynamics in a Multipolar World, Lisbon, 26-29 June 2013
Conference report on ECAS 2013: African dynamics in a Multipolar World (Lisbon, June 26-29 2013) By Inge Butter & Lotte Pelckmans Overall impression Overall the conference left a positive impression; it was well frequented and had a diverse program on offer. The closing-party in theRead More