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Joschka Philipps is Junior Research Group Leader at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, and interim professor for the Sociology of Africa Chair in the fall term 2024/25. He co-directs the interdisciplinary project “Fluid Ontologies of Contestation. Social media, anti-government protest and transnational decolonization movements in Burkina Faso” and is member of the Global Qualitative Sociology Network. ...more
From 2014 to 2017, Aurélien Gillier worked as an Assistant Photographer with Léonard Gomez Ferenczi and Thierry Rajic. Between 2007 and 2013, he pursued a PhD in history with a focus on “The Detroit Riot of 1967: A Social History,” under the supervision of François Weil at EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). During this period, he was a research fellow funded by the Ministry of Research, working within the CENA (Centre for North American Studies) ...more
Dr. Natewindé Sawadogo is a **Maître-Assistant** (Assistant Professor) in Sociology at **Université Ouaga II** in Burkina Faso. He is a member of the "Connaissances" (Knowledge) Research Section within the **Pôle d’Excellence for African Studies, Africa Multiple** program, based at **Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo**. Dr. Sawadogo’s research focuses on the ...more
Emmanuelle Roth is an anthropologist with a keen interest in health, the environment, and science. She is a postdoctoral fellow in the project “Fragments of the Forest: Hotspots, Disease Ecologies, and the Changing Landscape of Health and the Environment in West Africa” at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. ...more
Pr. Alpha Amadou Bano Barry is a university professor at **University of Conakry-Sonfonia** in Guinea, where he has taught since 2013. His research focuses on the anthropology of health, epidemics, political sociology, ethnicity, development, family sociology, and gender studies. Pr. Barry earned his PhD in Sociology ...more
Saïkou Oumar Sagnane holds a BA in sociology and an MA in anthropology from the Université Général Lansana Conté Sonfonia-Conakry. In his doctoral research, and as part of the research group “Politics of the Unknown,” Sagnane analyses the circulation, discussion and transformations, the uses and functions of information flows, as well as the logic of the “quest” in the context of unexpected events. ...more
Thiam Sékou Oumar, born in Mamou, Guinea in 1982, is a renowned Guinean sculptor known for his innovative use of salvaged materials in his art. Oumar studied at the Institut Supérieure des Arts de Guinée, where he explored various artistic disciplines before discovering his passion for sculpture. ...more
Tuline Gülgönen’s work focuses mainly on how people, and especially children, relate to (urban) space, in collaborative interdisciplinary projects. Halfway between academic and artistic research, she explores through hybrid and sometimes experimental methods - combining ...more
Kingsley Jima holds a BA in Politics and International Relations from the American University of Nigeria, and an MA in Global Studies from the Universities of Leipzig and Vienna as part of a Joint Master Degree. His doctoral research revolves around television reporting on banditry in Northwest Nigeria ...more
Rogers Orock is an anthropologist with interests in elites, politics, development, and the state in Central and West Africa. His ethnographic study of elites and the moral economy of leadership and development in Cameroon has examined questions of political mobilization, ...more
Nestor Zante is a socio-anthropologist and specialist in African studies. He examines how non-state security actors contribute to security governance within contexts of state vulnerability. His doctoral research at the University of Leipzig, Germany, focused on local security organizations in Burkina Faso, particularly the Koglwéogo group. ...more
Odile Goerg is a Professor Emeritus of Contemporary African History at the University of Paris Diderot. Her research focuses on economic, cultural and social history in urban contexts, particularly Conakry and Freetown, with a particular interest in cinema, ...more
Paul Schweizer is a geographer and popular educator. He has studied youth cultures in urban peripheries of cities such as Naples, São Paulo, and Istanbul. As a member of kollektiv orangotango, he co-conducts collective art projects in public space. He co-edited ...more
Sven Werner is an artist and filmmaker best known for the richly atmospheric worlds of magical realism, which he creates in both his films and his immersive narrative art installations. His recent short film, ...more
After working in a number of musical groups, Wula founded the group DUUDA with two of his friends. Known in Guinea for his anti-establishment lyrics, the group has been censored by the complicity of cultural promoters since the release of their album: Qui ne dit rien consent. ...more
In 2006, I discovered cinema for the first time in Dakar and joined a technical team as an assistant stage manager. I've worked on several films, including ‘La Pirogue des Hautes Terre’ by Olivier Langlois, ‘Africaine’ by Stéphanie Girerd, ‘La Pirogue’ by Moussa Touré, the first season of the series ‘C'est la vie’ by Moussa Sène Absa and Fabacary Coly, and ‘Dakar Trottoir’ by Hubert Laba Ndao ...more
Hamidou Touré, a.k.a. Ams Keuche is a rap artist from Fria, Guinea. Since moving to the capital Conakry, he started merging his observations of the Guinean capital with rap beats. Songs such as “Dans la Jungle”, "Rastawoman" (feat. King Medal) or "Mi life ina di guetho" (feat. Silatigui) ...more
Josephine Kolikoro DOPAVOGUI has lived in Nigeria, Niger and Benin, and holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Guinea's Oprah Winfrey University. In 2021, she enrolled in the multidisciplinary Space-Time-Society research master’s program at the General Lansana Conté University in Sonfonia-Conakry. ...more
Screenwriter and director Bilal Sow started out in the audiovisual industry as assistant director on several video clips for Guinean rap artists. He refined his technique by continuing to work as an assistant director on documentaries, music videos, and a documentary on the Ebola epidemic ...more
Victor Nakou is currently running a Master degree in African culture and societies at Bayreuth University. Prior to this, Victor studied at the University of Abomey Calavi (Benin) where he graduated with a “maîtrise” degree in history. His work and research are mainly limited to West Africa and more specifically to Benin, Togo and Ivory Coast. ...more
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