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.

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

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.

African history and politics

It is with great sadness that the Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA) announces the loss of Jo Skelt, a colleague, poet, and friend. Full of life until the very end, Jo lost a brief fight against recurring cancer. Her family was with her when she passed away in Birmingham on 31 January 2018.

Please visit Jo's memorial page to read and share memories.

 

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