Staff in African Studies and Anthropology 

Geography, environment, rural energy, area studies.

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

I am an anthropologist working on Angola, specialising in particular in gender and masculinities, war, military service, military refusal, religion and politics, and moral economy.  

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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

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

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.