Fellows 2022/23
Dr. Noemi Alfieri
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
Noemi Alfieri was a Post-Doc Fellow of the FCT project “AFROLAB: Building African Literatures. Institutions and Consecration inside and outside the Portuguese-Language Space (1960-2020)”, based at ...more
Dr. Renzo Baas
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.03.2023
Renzo Baas was a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 03.2020 until 08.02022. He received his PhD at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies in 2017 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal from 2018-2020. ...more
Dr. Judith Bachmann
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
Dr. Judith Bachmann is a Bayreuth academy research fellow, currently working on a genealogy of global spatialities of the Yoruba divination practice Ifá. From 2017-2022 she worked as a research and teaching fellow at the Department of Religious Studies and Intercultural Theology, Faculty of Theology. ...more
Jean-Pierre Békolo
stay: 09.04.2023 – 09.07.2023
Jean-Pierre Bekolo was born in 1966 in Yaounde, Cameroon. He studied physics at the University of Yaounde in Cameroon from 1984 to 1987. He then studied in the National Institution of Audiovisuals (INA) in Bry-sur-Marne, France, under French film theorist Christian Metz. ...more
Prof. Dr. Stephen Brown
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
Stephen Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of Ottawa, where he is also affiliated with the School of International Development and Global Studies. His research focuses mainly on the intersection of domestic and international politics. He has published on democratization, political violence, peacebuilding and. ...more
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth Cooper
stay: 24.10.2022 – 03.02.2023
Elizabeth’s current research focuses on Kenyan students’ protest actions and their experiences of education and citizenship. Her 2022 book entitled 'Burning Ambition: Education, Arson, and Learning Justice in Kenya' explores how young people learn to understand and influence the workings of power and justice in their society. ...more
Dr. Anthony Diala
stay: 21.01.2023 – 21.07.2023
Anthony C. Diala is an associate professor of law at the University of the Western Cape and founding director of its Centre for Legal Integration in Africa. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cape Town (2016), an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa from the University of Pretoria (2007), a PG Diploma from the Nigerian Law School (2004), and an LLB from Enugu State ...more
Dr. Lamine Doumbia
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
Dr. Lamine Doumbia is a social anthropologist and currently a postdoctoral researcher at Excellence Cluster “Africa Multiple” of University of Bayreuth. After his fellowship at the Institute of African Studies of the University of Bayreuth, He recently completed an individual fellowship and Co-convened the interdisciplinary fellow Group 6 at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa. ...more
Dr. Maja Figge
stay: 01.02.2023 – 31.07.2023
Maja Figge is currently research associate for film studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Her main research interests are transnational screen cultures, film and media aesthetics and theory, postcolonial critique and decolonial thought, gender / queer studies. ...more
Dr. Faisal Garba Muhammed
stay: 01.12.2022 – 30.06.2023
Dr Faisal Garba is in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he convenes the Global Studies Programme (GSP). He leads the South-South Migration Hub in South Africa and the Migration and Mobility Research Group at UCT. ...more
Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta
stay: 01.05.2023 – 31.07.2023
Pamila Gupta is currently Professor at WiSER, University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, where she has been based since 2008. Starting in January 2023 she will take up a Research Professorship at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa, affiliated with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS). She holds a PhD in Anthropology from. ...more
Dr. Femi Jegede
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
My research expertise has broadly drawn upon Ashantee Molefi’s notion of Afrocentricism as a wider episteme that tends to push the essentiality of phenomenon using African knowing systems and scientific traditions. The methodology is not the formal Eurocentric knowledge systems that place so much emphasis on theoretical and not much on the practical. It is squared in ...more
Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi
stay: 16.10.2022 – 15.04.2023
Dr Thokozani Mhlambi is a creative musician, who uses his art and exhibitions in order to convey African stories/philosophies. He plays the baroque cello, sings and compose his own music. Born in Madadeni, KwaZulu-Natal, after fulfilling music studies in South Africa & Sweden, Mhlambi received his PhD in Music at the University of Cape Town. In South Africa, he has showcased work at leading platforms such as the Linder Auditorium, National Arts Festival and Soweto Theatre ...more
Dr. Wandia Njoya
stay: 24.10.2022 – 23.04.2023
Wandia Njoya is an associate professor of literature and former head of the Department of Language and Performing Arts at Daystar University in Kenya. She began her academic career as a scholar of African literature in French, but developed an interest in education. ...more
Dr. Bakheit Mohammed Nur
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.12.2022
Bakheit Mohammed Nur holds a PhD in Anthropology from Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany; and Bachelor in Sociology and Social Anthropology, and a Master in Social Anthropology from University of Khartoum, Sudan. Between 2019 and 2021, Nur was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth where ...more
Dr. Anthony Okeregbe
stay: 04.10.2022 – 03.12.2022
Anthony Okeregbe, Ph.D, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Lagos (UNILAG), and also Principal Investigator, Lagos African Cluster Centre of Excellence (ACC) of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Born in Lagos where he lives with his family, Tony had his early education in Lagos and Ibadan. He has a BA (Hons.) in 1990 at the University of Ibadan, MA (1994) and Ph.D (2004) in Philosophy at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. ...more
Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.01.2023
Dhruv Raina is currently Professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he teaches the history and philosophy of science. He studied physics at Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and received his Ph.D. in the philosophy of science from Göteborg University. Prior to joining the University he was a Scientist ...more
Prof. Dr. Stênio José Paulino Soares
stay: 01.10.2022 – 31.07.2023
Performance artist. Professor at the Department of Performing Techniques at the School of Theater at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA/Brazil). Professor and vice-coordinator of the Post-Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies (Pós-Afro/UFBA) and Professor of Master in Arts (Prof-Artes/UFBA/Brazil) ...more
Alexandre Vieira
stay: 01.03.2023 – 31.07.2023
Alexandre Vieira is a Brazilian musician based in Salvador - Bahia - Brasil. Master in music performance - Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), plays upright bass, electric bass, guitar, percussion and sing, performing as a frontman and sideman. Born in a musical family, started playing in his early childhood with his father, sister and brother, became professional at 17 years old. ...more