CTD’s 2nd Newsletter, July 2013
Update project proceedings (July 2013)-CTD’s This quarterly newsletter of the research programme ‘Connecting in Times of Duress’ gives updates about the whereabouts of the team members, the organised events and the attended meetings and publications. Website The first to notice is that our web siteRead More
CTD Seminar Series: Shamil Jeppie, 17 September 2013
‘Collecting and Communication: Episodes from Timbuktu in Times of Distress’ by Dr. Shamil Jeppie (Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma), University of Cape Town, S.A. The northern Malian town of Timbuktu was occupied by rebels in the middle of 2012, and the rebels were driven out earlyRead More
Boukary Sangaré – Médias sociaux au cœur de l’élection présidentielle du 28 juillet au Mali
by Boukary SANGARE[1] Ce dimanche 28 juillet 2013, le Mali vient de tenir un grand pari[2] en organisant l’élection la plus incertaine de son histoire politique[3]. Une élection qui aurait suscité plus d’engouement chez les électeurs maliens selon les observateurs nationaux, sous régionaux et internationaux.Read More
Inge Butter – Post-fieldwork report: CAR & Chad, October 2012 – March 2013
From October 2012 until March 2013 I carried out my third fieldwork period, following the leads I had picked up in Central Chad in order to gain an understanding of the dynamics of this post-conflict region. More specifically, I mapped and followed some of theRead More
Some Impressions from a (first) Tour Through the Central African Republic – report, 28 November-6 December 2012
by Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Butter, Souleymane Abdoulaye Adoum, Adamou Amadou. Mobility and migration In this research we will concentrate on internal mobility within the CEMAC zone. Intercontinental migration seems to be of less importance for the Mbororo (Fulani) and Arabs, than for migrants fromRead More
Some Impressions from a (first) Tour Through the Central African Republic – photo story, 28 November-6 December 2012
by Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Butter, Souleymane Abdoulaye Adoum, Adamou Amadou. Slide 1: Popular art in Bangui. Slide 2: Taking pictures of mobile phone presence in Bangui. Slide 3: Chadian Arabs in Bangui; the Sudanese market. Slide 4 and 5: Interview with old man fromRead More
Edited volume – Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Mirjam de Bruijn, I. Brinkman and F. B. Nyamnjoh are the editors of the volume ‘Side@Ways, Mobile margins and the dynamics of Communication in Africa (Cameroon/Leiden: Langaa/ASC, 2013). Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, interRead More
CTD Seminar Series: Marie-Soleil Frère and Katrien Pype, 2 April 2013
We launched our Seminar Series on 2nd April 2013 with Social Media and the Experience of Conflict in Central Africa.
Article – One Hippopotamus and Eight Blind Analysts: A Multivocal Analysis of the 2012 Political Crisis in the Divided Republic of Mali
A few months ago a multinational, interdisciplinary team of scholars assembled to write a comprehensive analysis on the Malian crisis. The team comprised of eight researchers specializing in diverse aspects of Mali’s populations and their history. contributed to this project. These are Baz Lecocq, GregoryRead More
Edited volume – The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa
Prof. Dr. Mirjam de Bruijn en Dr. Rijk van Dijk edited a new publication: ‘The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa’. In an age of new technologies of connections, understanding social transformations in Africa through connections has become pivotal. Africa has now arrived at aRead More