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Cluster of Excellence EXC 2052 - "Africa Multiple: reconfiguring African Studies"

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Research Projects

Please find the current Africa Multiple Cluster Research Digest here.

Research Section Affiliations

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Multiplicity in Decision-Making of Africa’s Interacting Markets: The Functioning of Community Law, the Role of Market Participants and the Power of Regional Judges (MuDAIMa)
Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Interacting Markets in Africa
Regional integration in Eastern and Southern Africa: An Appraisal of factors that influence regional integration in Africa: The case of East African Community (EAC)
Intra-Africa Migration and Xenophobia: The Imperatives for African Integration
When the law is not enough: Tackling intractable problems of human rights – Prospects for integrated approaches

Research Section Arts and Aesthetics

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Research Section Knowledges

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Karakul Circulations: Colonial Economies and the Un_Making of Disciplinary Knowledges in Germany and Namibia
Travelling Knowledge and Trans*textuality. African Re*Sources in Shakespearean Drama
Women as Sages: Exploring the nature and value of ‘Feminine’ Wisdom
Colonial letters and the contact of knowledges
Colonial Body Archives – A Media Studies Approach
Politics and Societies of the Marginalised
Science and the State: The Organisation of Academic Knowledge Production in Burkina Faso
African urban complexities and the governance challenges of urban rivers – a systemic-relational inquiry
Rethinking the Artistic Trajectory of African Women Artists
Complexities & Adaptations of Communities on the State Borders
Biographies and Liberation: Life Writing in Transversal Perspectives
Knowledge State in Francophone West Africa: Experience of the State and Institutionalization of Science in Burkina Faso
and Senega
Etude socio-anthropologique sur les sources endogènes de dialogue et de paix contre le terrorisme au Burkina Faso
“African” Knowledges and the History Publication since the 1970s
Indigenous Intelligence and Livelihoods in Africa: Knowledge Systems in Selected Communities in Kenya
Pots, Fire and Gourds: A (Re)presentation of Cultural knowledge Systems Among the Bukusu, Iteso, Sabaot and Yoruba
Locating the Albatross in Women’s Political Participation
Colonial Commodities – Entanglements in German and West-African History
Reconstituting the Political in Postcolonial Africa: From Sovereignty of the State to Sovereignty of the People
The Socio-Political Thoughts of Orunmila

Research Section Learning

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Research Section Mobilities

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Planned obsolescence, circular economies and ecologies of electronic devices
Oil movements: the production and government of petro-(im)mobilities in East Africa
Africa in the global history of refugee camps (1940s to 1950s)
Uhamaji wa wanyerwanda: migration and conflict in Ituri, DR Congo
Migration control, forced immobility and violent mobilization in the border triangle of Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger
Politics and Societies of the Marginalised
Intra-Africa Migration and Xenophobia: The Imperatives for African Integratio
Mobilities and Socialities: Covid-19 in the Drylands of Africa and Beyond
Mobile Capital and (Im)Mobile Entrepreneurs: Start-up Success, Institutional Context and the “Laws of Start-up Money” in Silicon Savannah
Socio-ecological drivers of movements into and out of African Woodlands
Humanities for Humanitarians. An Experiment in the Public Implications of Multiple Ontology
Framing Identities from Human Agency Mobility on the Kenya-Uganda Highway
African Urban Complexities and the Governance Challenges of Urban Rivers
The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial Dependency: West African Policy Space Compared
Invisible Intellectuals? “Endangered Scholars” and the Question of African Academic Mobilities
Migration Control, Violence and COVID-19
Ethics and Legitimacies in Modification of Moving Material Cultures in North Rift, Kenya
Mobilities and Flows across West African Urban Corridors
Municipal Road Construction in Kenya and Nigeria: Investigating the Politics of Infrastructure Development
Spatio-temporal variability in the environment and mobility characterizes socio-ecological systems in large regions of tropical Africa, especially in savanna ecosystems

Research Section Moralities

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Health discourses as moral communication? Linguistic case studies from Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon
Changing Life Projects: African Identities, Moralities and Wellbeing (AIMWell)
Religious engineering – the making of moralities, development and religion in Niger
Moral Geographies of Re-Existence
Globalization and health policy in West Africa
Judicial Institutions and Teenagers/Young people in Burkina Faso: "Life outside, inside and outside prison". A construction of the social trajectories of teenagers and young people incarcerated and released from detention centres in Burkina Faso
Politics of the Unknown: Conspiracism and Conflict
Sexualities, Political Orders and Revolutions in Africa: into the heart of Tunisia, Ethiopia and Sudan
African Studies without Ethics Dumping: An Integrative Study of
Research Ethics Governance in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa

Short Projects

Migration control, forced immobility and violent mobilization in the border triangle of Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger

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