Anthropology, popular culture, religion, and the verbal arts, both oral and written. Yoruba and Yoruba print culture.

Anthropology, labour, migration, borders, development and the social dynamics of money.

Gender, changing family structures, migration, development issues, historicised ethnography

Geography, environment, rural energy, area studies.

Marginality, development, the politics of existence and the right to the city  

Early pre-colonial history of Africa, cultural interactions, oral traditions, West African medieval Arabic inscriptions.

I am a social anthropologist whose research interests include transnational migration, kinship, belonging, and religion (especially Pentecostalism).I have pursued these interests in the United Kingdom and Kenya and in the context of migration between the two countries.  

I am an anthropologist with a particular interest in youth studies, religion (especially Pentecostalism), insecure livelihoods, and aspects of popular culture (fashion, beauty pageants, mobile phones). My doctorate thesis focused on young women’s livelihoods in Calabar, southeastern Nigeria.

Social anthropology specialising in Southern Africa, anthropology of gender and law in Malawi

Nigerian print, literacy and popular culture

I am an Africanist with a focus on transitions after conflict and crisis in Sierra Leone.

History and culture of Asante and Africa; comparative history; history of ideas; historiography

Yoruba history, culture and politics

Colonial whiteness, the history and literary representations of British colonial education, first-generation Nigerian writing, Nigerian print cultures, and life-writing

Anthropology, social and cultural contours of communication.

History and anthropology of twentieth-century West Africa, Hausa and Tuareg societies.

Afro-European encounters in the context of trade, Christian mission and scientific exploration, precolonial and early colonial Africa.