"Reconfiguring African Studies" Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth

In the month of May 2023, the poet and musician Jean Luc Raharimanana from Madagascar was invited by the Cluster of Excellence to accompany the Cluster's events and record his observations. In this episode of the Cluster Conversations Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen took the opportunity to talk to the malagassy artist about paralells between her work and his. The Conver...

In this latest episode of the Cluster Conversations Cluster fellow Dr. Wandia Njoya talks with Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl about her research project in which she researches new ways of conceiving and engaging with experiences of education in Kenya and other comparable contexts.

In this episode, Cluster fellow Prof. Dr. Stephen Brown from the University of Ottawa talks with his host Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime about the situation of the LGBTQ community on the African continent and his project "Strategic Litigation and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Africa" which he is currently working on during his fellowship at the Cluster of Excellence.

Cluster fellows Dr. Judith Bachmann and Dr. Femi Jegede are in Bayreuth to work on their tandem project “The Conquest of Distance”. In this episode of the Cluster Conversations the two fellows talk with their host Prof. Dr. Eva Spies, Professor for the Study of Religion with focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth about their project and how they approach the subject "Ifá practices&quot...

In this episode, Iris Clemens - Chair of Educational Science at the  University of Bayreuth and Principal Investigator of the Africa Multiple  Cluster of Excellence - talks with Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina from the Jawaharlal  Nehru University, New Delhi, where he teaches the history and  philosophy of science. Together they are having a conversation about Prof. Raina's current resea...

Cluster fellow Dr. Anthony Okeregbe talks with his host Dr. Serawit Debele , leader of the Cluster's Junior Research Group on Intersectionality, about his recent project entitled " The Child’s Right to ‘Sex’: Negotiating Sexuality Pedagogies in Entangled Moral Spaces ". Anthony Okeregbe, Ph. D, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department  of Philosophy, University of Lagos (UNILAG), and al...

Dr. Lamine Doumbia who is a fellow of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence talks with his host Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends  about his research surrounding urban land governance in West Africa  (Dakar, Bamako and Ouagadougou) from a socio-anthropological  perspective.

Abdilatif Abdalla who was in Bayreuth as guest for the series of events on the Indian Ocean, in conversation with Clarissa Vierke, Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth.  Abdilatif Abdalla is a Kenyan poet, publicist and university lecturer and considered one of the best-known Swahili poets of the present day. Since 1995, Abdalla has taught Swahili at the...

The ninth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Dr. Kai Koddenbrock about "African states in world markets: Systemic hierarchies and the postcolonial International Political Economy of governing Senegal". The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster...

The eighth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Dr Kamal Donko highlighting "Local perceptions on Migration Control and Local Economy in the Kantchari-Makalondi Borderland." The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence . Scholars are...

The seventh episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 30-minute discussion with Dr. Christian A. Williams, titled “Liberation Movement Camps in Southern Africa” The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence . Scholars are invited to give short lectures on struggles around the im/m...

The sixth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast entails a 30-minute discussion with Dr. Fredrick O. Okaka - a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Moi University - titled "Emerging (im)mobility trends along the LAPSSET corridor". The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence . Scho...

The fifth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 30-minute talk with Dr. Franca Attoh & Dr. Kayode Eesuola titled: "A cross sectional survey on IntraAfrican Migration and Xenophobia" The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence . Scholars are invited to give short lectures...

The fourth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Larissa Schindler - Professor for Sociology at the University of Bayreuth - entitled "Im/mobilities and their research methods". The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence . Scholars a...

The third episode of the Cluster's Sprint Lectures on African mobilities presents a talk entitled " COVID-19 and the politics of (im)mobility in Uganda " with with Paddy Kinyera (Postdoctoral researcher in Political Geography at University of Bayreuth) and Martin Doevenspeck (Professor for Political Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany). The sprint lectures on planetary mobility strugg...

The second episode of the Cluster's Sprint Lectures on African mobilities presents a talk entitled "Invisible Intellectuals, African Academic Mobility in Question" with Nadine Machikou - Université de Yaounde 2, Kamerun.  The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence. They invite scholars to give short le...

The first episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Parvati Raghuram (Professor of Geography at Open University) entitled " Four Moves for Reshaping Migration Categories ". It has been recorded as part of a lecture series planetary mobility struggles organised by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence. The...