Staff research in African Studies and Anthropology In 'Research' ResearchStaff researchDoctoral researcher profilesCadbury Research FellowshipBirmingham University African Studies Series Back to 'Department of African Studies and Anthropology' Current research projects LESLAN - Legacies of Slavery in Niger (Dr Benedetta Rossi) The Family House (Dr Max Bolt) Gender justice (Dr Jessica Johnson) Streetlife, marginality and development in urban Ethiopia (Dr Marco Di Nunzio) Conspiracies to build. The political and moral economy of construction booms (Dr Marco Di Nunzio) An Archive of Activism: gender and public history in postcolonial Ghana (Dr Kate Skinner) Re-thinking Sunjata: epics, oral literature and translation in West Africa Nigerian travel writing in Yoruba and English (Dr Rebecca Jones) Grandparents, grandchildren and mobile phones in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Dr Katrien Pype) Talking in the city: A historical-anthropological analysis of Communicative formations in post-colonial Kinshasa (Dr Katrien Pype) Knowing each-other: everyday religious encounters, social identities and tolerance in southwest Nigeria (Dr Insa Nolte) Exchanges around emancipation: Birmingham and Dakar (Dr Benedetta Rossi) The exploration of ethnography and intelligence through the wartime career of American anthropologist Jack Harris (Dr Keith Shear and Dr Insa Nolte)