Research Projects
- Please find the current Africa Multiple Cluster Research Digest here.
- Human Rights, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Interacting Markets in Africa
- When the law is not enough: Tackling intractable problems of human rights – Prospects for integrated approaches
- 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)
- Intra-Africa Migration and Xenophobia: The Imperatives for African Integration
- Regional Integration in Eastern and Southern Africa: An Appraisal of Factors that Influence Regional Integration in Africa: The Case of East African Community (EAC)
- Locating the Albatross in Women’s Political Participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
- “Black Atlantic revisited” – African and South American UNESCO-World Heritage Sites and “Shadowed Spaces” of Performative Memory
- Rethinking the “Informal” and Mainstreaming African Popular Arts and Entertainment
- Multiple Artworks – Multiple Indian Ocean
- Rethinking the Artistic Trajectory of African Women Artists
- Of Art Worlds - Collecting and Archiving Modern and Contemporary Art on the African Continent
- Beyond the Digital Return: New Heritage/s, Sustainability, and the Decolonisation of Music Archives in South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana
- Aesthetic Dividuations
- Approaches to African Sonic Pedagogies
- Islamic Popular Culture and Public Performance Practices: The Production, Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Creation of Cultural Identity in Africa
- Biographies and Liberation: Life Writing in Transversal Perspectives
- Les Sources Endogènes de Dialogue et de Paix contre le Terrorisme
- East African Asian Writing and the Emergence of a Diasporic Subjectivity
- Taiwo Shango
- De 2000 à 2020, deux décennies de films de fiction burkinabè: acteurs/actrices, orientations thématiques et profils esthétiques
- Sounding Africa on the Indian Ocean littoral and in the South-western Indian Ocean
- Artivism, Social Justice and Epistemic Revolution - Situating African Perspectives within the Global South
- 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
- “African” Knowledges and the History Publication since the 1970s
- Colonial letters and the contact of knowledges
- African urban complexities and the governance challenges of urban rivers – a systemic-relational inquiry
- The Socio-Political Thoughts of Orunmila
- Approaches to African Sonic Pedagogies
- Colonial Commodities – Entanglements in German and West-African History
- 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
- Mediated and Mediatization of Islamic Knowledge in Kenya: Educational Institutions, Media Technologies and Performative Aesthetics
- Islamic Popular Culture and Public Performance Practices: The Production, Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Creation of Cultural Identity in Africa
- Rethinking the Artistic Trajectory of African Women Artists
- Complexities & Adaptations of Communities on the State Borders
- 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
- Reconstituting the Political in Postcolonial Africa: From Sovereignty of the State to Sovereignty of the People
- Invisible Intellectuals ? „Endangered Scholars“ and the question of African academic mobilities
- Colonial Body Archives – A Media Studies Approach
- Locating the Albatross in Women’s Political Participation
- Biographies and Liberation: Life Writing in Transversal Perspectives
- Mediated and Mediatization of Islamic Knowledge in Kenya: Educational Institutions, Media Technologies and Performative Aesthetics
- Regenerating Non-Formal Learning in Africa: Digitising Yorùbá Folktales for Animation and Value Education – A Pilot Study
- Making a Living: Learning trajectories towards the ability to earn a livelihood
- The Pre-Death Bequest of Gerd Spittler
- PLURA 2.0: Project Learning and Resource Platform Africa
- Learning beyond the classroom: Coping with illiteracy in urban literate environments in Bolivia and Benin
- Islamic Popular Culture and Public Performance Practices: The Production, Transmission of Religious Knowledge and Creation of Cultural Identity in Africa
- Multilingual African Learning Spaces: Translanguaging Practices in the Kenyan Classroom
- Toward an Islamic Cultural Archive (ICA): Building a Collaborative Database of Islamic Learning in Africa
- Approaches to African Sonic Pedagogies
- Advice as practical epistemology in multilingual Africa - an analysis of expert /user and user/ user contexts in Cameroon
- Indigenous Intelligence and Livelihoods in Africa: Knowledge Systems in Selected Communities in Kenya
- Planned obsolescence, circular economies and ecologies of electronic devices
- Intra-Africa Migration and Xenophobia: The Imperatives for African Integratio
- Africa in the global history of refugee camps (1940s to 1950s)
- Mobile Capital and (Im)Mobile Entrepreneurs: Start-up Success, Institutional Context and the “Laws of Start-up Money” in Silicon Savannah
- The Political Economy of Monetary and Financial Dependency: West African Policy Space Compared
- Oil movements: the production and government of petro-(im)mobilities in East Africa
- Migration control, forced immobility and violent mobilization in the border triangle of Burkina Faso, Benin and Niger
- Mobilities and Socialities: Covid-19 in the Drylands of Africa and Beyond
- 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
- Ethics and Legitimacies in Modification of Moving Material Cultures in North Rift, Kenya
- Uhamaji wa wanyerwanda: migration and conflict in Ituri, DR Congo
- Invisible Intellectuals? “Endangered Scholars” and the Question of African Academic Mobilities
- Migration Control, Violence and COVID-19
- Mobilities and Flows across West African Urban Corridors
- Municipal Road Construction in Kenya and Nigeria: Investigating the Politics of Infrastructure Development
- Health discourses as moral communication? Linguistic case studies from Côte d'Ivoire and Cameroon
- Politics of the Unknown: Conspiracism and Conflict
- Moral Geographies of Re-Existence
- Changing Life Projects: African Identities, Moralities and Wellbeing (AIMWell)
- Religious engineering – the making of moralities, development and religion in Niger
- Fluid Ontologies of Contestation. Social media, anti-government protest and transnational decolonization movements in Burkina Faso
- 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
- African Studies without Ethics Dumping: An Integrative Study of
- Research Ethics Governance in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa
- Sexualities, Political Orders and Revolutions in Africa: into the heart of Tunisia, Ethiopia and Sudan
- Les Sources Endogènes de Dialogue et de Paix contre le Terrorisme
- Biographies and Liberation: Life Writing in Transversal Perspectives
- Locating the Albatross in Women’s Political Participation