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Video: Carl Schlettwein lecture at ECAS, 28 June 2017

| October 5, 2017

Last June, CTD project leader Mirjam de Bruijn delivered the Carl Schlettwein Lecture Digitalisation and the Field of African Studies to a packed house at the 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS 2017 (28 June – 1 July 2017 in Basel). Mirjam’s lecture can now be viewedRead More

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Prof. dr. Mirjam de Bruijn

| August 23, 2016

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

agency, Cameroon, Chad, child soldiers, children, communication, exclusion, Fulbe, human rights, ICTs, insecurity, Mali, marginality, mobile money, mobility, N'djamena, nomadism, poverty, technology, telephony, Tuareg, violence, voice4thought, Youth Core Team Comments Off Print this News

Dr. Meike de Goede

| August 22, 2016

Meike de Goede holds a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of St Andrews (UK). After completing her studies in African History at Leiden University and Peace and Conflict Studies & Human Rights at Utrecht University, Meike worked for several years inRead More

Africa, agency, democratization, development, development sector, DRC, governance, human rights, ICTs, information, international community, liberal peace, local agencies, Meike de Goede, state building, Swaziland, technology, Zimbabwe Core Team Comments Off Print this News

Mirjam de Bruijn, The Cipher Brief, 14 October 2015

| January 28, 2016

Mirjam de Bruijn’s article Transforming Africa under the Expert Commentary section https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/transforming-africa Complete feature package on The Rise of Mobile Technology in Africa by The Cipher Brief https://www.thecipherbrief.com/article/rise-mobile-technology-africa

Africa, communication, connecting, ICT, mobile phones, mobility, social dynamics, technology In the media, Output Comments Off Print this News

Mobile Money

| May 1, 2015

This project was centred around a comparative ethnographic study into the usage, perceptions and attitudes towards mobile money in four countries. Click here to read the industry facing report ‘A sense of inclusion. An ethnographic study of the perceptions and attitudes to digital financial services inRead More

bottom of the pyramid, connectivity, development, economic growth, financial inclusion, Inge Butter, Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Mobile Financial Services (MFS), mobile money, Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), mobility, related project, technology, unbanked Related projects Comments Off Print this News

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