The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence is a major transcontinental and multidisciplinary research organisation aiming to to promote research on multiple, relational, and reflexive processes of world-making as they pertain to Africa. Founded in 2019 and renewed in 2026, the Cluster funds projects that contribute to re-imagining the world from African perspectives more broadly and to re-thinking what world is, how it came to be that way, and what it could become. With this, our collaborative research seeks to address and analyse the current global challenges and concomitant power dynamics, relationalities and agencies as they pertain to Africa and the multiple world(s) Africa co-constitutes.
2026–2032
Africa Multiple – Second Phase (AM 2.0)
Research Agenda
The Research Agenda of the Cluster can be found here.
Africa Multiple 2.0 pursues research in six new Research Sections: Accumulation, Digitalities, Ecologies, In/securities, Re:membering, and Translating.
The Cluster projects of AM 2.0 are subordinate to the six Research Sections: Accumulation, Digitalities, Ecologies, In/securities, Re:membering and Translating.
2019 – 2025
Africa Multiple – First Phase (AM 1.0)
Located at the centre of its research activities, the Knowledge Lab interlinked the Africa Multiple Cluster's three main research structures during the first funding phase (2019–2025).
During AM 1.0 the Cluster funded a total of 72 research projects at its five locations, subordinate to six Research Sections: Affiliations, Arts/Aesthetics, Mobilities, Moralities, Knowledges and Learning.
Publications & Bayreuth Academy
The Africa Multiple Academy hosts international fellows at different career stages from across the globe, particularly scholars based in Africa, and connects them across five locations.
Contact Portfolio Research
