Staff in African Studies and Anthropology 

I am a historian of Africa with particular thematic interest in gender, marriage, family, slavery, emancipation, and the slave trade. My interest also lies in understanding the colonial political and legal changes in twentieth century Africa. My doctoral thesis examined changes in gender and marital relations in colonial Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.

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

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.

I am a social anthropologist who has carried out long-term ethnographic research in Ethiopia on public service, labour, development and the everyday state.

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

Yoruba history, culture and politics

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.

African and Caribbean fiction and poetry

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

Geography, environment, rural energy, area studies.

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

I am a scholar of Nigerian print, literary and popular cultures in the Yoruba and English languages, with an emphasis on archival research and on literary and popular texts. My research sits at the intersection between literary studies and cultural anthropology; I am interested in how literary print cultures, genres, readers and writers emerge and develop, while also keeping what texts themselves ...

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

Anthropology, social and cultural contours of communication.

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