Staff research in African Studies and Anthropology

Current research projects

• The Family House (Dr Max Bolt)
• 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)