Junior Fellows
This is an overview of the Junior Fellows in BIGSAS and their respective research projects:
| Name | Research Project | |
| Abdalla, Salma Mohamed | ⇒ | Coping with Water Scarcity: the Role of Zakat Institutions in Water Distribution in Khartoum |
| Abd Elkreem, Tamer | ⇒ | The Forces of Development: Implementation and Resistance The case of Dam Construction in Nubian Homeland, Sudan |
| Abdel Rahman, Abu Baker | ⇒ | Perception of Causes, Treatment Practices and Stigmatization of Female Infertility in Gezira State - Sudan |
| Abou Moumouni, Issifou | ⇒ | L'Etat béninois et les alternatives locales autour de l'offre des services de sécurité civile au Nord-Bénin |
| Ahmed, Azza Mustafa | ⇒ | Place Identity and Urban Planning - Tuti Island - Khartoum - Sudan |
| Alemu, Girum Getachew | ⇒ | Adapting to Climatic Processes or Adapting to the State? Livelihood Changes among the Karrayu Communities in Dry Land Parts of Ethiopia |
| Alisch, Stefanie | ⇒ | Kuduro - Angolan music and dance digital, trans-national, post-traumatic |
| Araújo, Paulo | ⇒ | Conceptual domains of predicative possession in Bantu languages of groups H, K and R |
| Arthur, Justice | ⇒ | Between belonging and rejection: The relationship of Charismatic churches in Ghana with the traditional African culture |
| Aydin, Sibel | ⇒ | Transcultural Communication and the Dynamics of the British and Egyptian dialectics in the fictions of Ahdaf Soueif |
| Ayong, Ahmed | ⇒ | Traditional Islamic Scholarly Culture in Northern Cameroon in the 20th Century |
| Baas, Renzo | ⇒ | Fictional Representations of Space in Namibia in Selected German and South African Novels |
| Baiyewu, Timothy | ⇒ | The Transformation of Aladura Christianity in Nigeria |
| Bakhit, Mohamed | ⇒ | Identity Formation in multi-ethnic Shantytowns: a case study of Elbaraka area in Khartoum |
| Baloi, Obede Suarte | ⇒ | Dynamics of peace consolidation: local perceptions of violence and peace in post-war Mozambique |
| Bello, Sakinatou | ⇒ | Child rights protection in Africa . A case study: Children trafficking in the Republic of Benin |
| Besigiroha, Linda | ⇒ | Womanhood is a Country: (Self-)Representation in Contemporary Media in Uganda |
| Bloemertz, Lena | ⇒ | Representing Socio-ecological Relations – Reflections on risk and resilience |
| Bock, Stephan | ⇒ | Übersetzungsprozesse urbaner Regulationsansätze in der Beziehung Kigali (Ruanda) / Singapur |
| Boger, Julia | ⇒ | Labour markets in Africa, social networks, migration and development, return-migration policies, sociology of development policy (NGOs, participation) |
| Bonkat, Lohna | ⇒ | Coping with insecurity and uncertainty in urban market centres: changing socio-economic relations in Jos, Nigeria |
| Borszik, Anne-Kristin | ⇒ | Dispute Settlement in Eastern Guinea-Bissau. Self-presentations, Stories and Agency in the Interaction Triangle |
| Bounakoff, Pierre-Nicolas | ⇒ | Curators vs Humanitarians: a Kenyan Artist's Dilemma |
| Boutché, Jean Pierre | ⇒ | Fulfulde spoken by non-ethnic Fulani in the City of Maroua (Northern Cameroon): A sociolinguistic Study |
| Brinkmann, Felix | ⇒ | Kleinhändler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia – viele Herausforderungen, kreative Lösungen |
| Chepngetich, Pamela | ⇒ | Transgressing Victimhood: Conflations of Media Representation and Self Representation of Refugees in Kenya |
| Coulibaly, Nonlourou Marie | ⇒ | Local Response to HIV/AIDS in cross- border areas: A case study of local organizations that target families living at southern cross- border areas of Côte d´Ivoire-Ghana and Ghana –Togo |
| Dahlmanns, Erika | ⇒ | Image and Performance in Conflict Transformation - A Study on Representations of Unity and Difference in Post-genocide Rwanda |
| Daniel, Antje | ⇒ | Women's movements and their transnationalization: A comparative study on women's movements in Kenia and Brazil |
| Debele, Serawit Bekele | ⇒ | Religious Freedom and the State in Post 1991 Ethiopia: the Case of Oromo Religious Rituals |
| Debelo, Asebe | ⇒ | Conflict of Interests, Narratives of Entitlement and Power Positions among Actors Contesting over Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia |
| Degenhart, Barbara | ⇒ | Mid Sized Cities supplied: Food Security and Coping Strategies of Urban Food Systems |
| de Haas, Ricarda | ⇒ | Slams und Blogs in Harare (Simabwe) und Johannesburg (Südafrika) |
| Deutschmann, Anna | ⇒ | Studenten als Akteure im politischen Wandel Afrikas. Eine vergleichende Analyse von Studentenbewegungen in Mali und Kenia |
| Dittmann, Julia | ⇒ | Weißsein als Phallus der weißen Filmrezipientin. Entwicklung rassismuskritischer Strategien für eine dekonstruktivistische Filmanalyse |
| Djiala, Diderot | ⇒ | Lecture Pragmatique des affiches de sensibilisation contre le VIH/SIDA au Cameroun |
| Donsomsakulkij, Weeraya | ⇒ | Humans, Nature and Selected South African Literature: The Post-Pastoral Impulse in the Post Apartheid South Africa |
| Doumbia, Lamine | ⇒ | Die Relevanz des lokalen Wissens und die Kernfrage des urbanen Landmanagements; Eine Anthropologie der demokratischen Entwicklungsplanung in Bamako / Mali |
| El Maarouf, Moulay Driss | ⇒ | The Local and Global Dynamics of Moroccan Music Festivals |
| El Naggare, Maroua | ⇒ | Childhood in Africa: The Poetics of Writing the Early Self in Francophone Novels and Short Stories |
| Fink, Katharina | ⇒ | RE-MEMBERING SOPHIATOWN - Strategies of re-membering and their impact on spaces of everyday life – A case study of museum and heritage projects in Sophiatown, Johannesburg |
| Firsching, Henrike | ⇒ | The translation of biblical metaphors in Hausa and Swahili |
| Flosbach, Johannes | ⇒ | Financial Performance of Microfinance Institution in Ghana and Uganda |
| Fulela, Brian | ⇒ | Post-apartheid Subjectives: Psychoanalysis and/in Place in the Novels of K. Sello Duiker, Kgebetle Moele and Sifoso Mzobe |
| Gebauer, Claudia | ⇒ | Translation of the Adaptation to Climate Change Paradigm in Rwanda – the politics of a travelling idea |
| Gebreyes, Million | ⇒ | Social Learning for Climate Change Adaptation in Drylands of Ethiopia |
| Geda, Gemechu | ⇒ | Indigenous Religio-Cultural Beliefs and Practices of the Arsi Oromo: An Anthropological and Historical Inquiry |
| Glover, Evam | ⇒ | Neo-polygyny and the African city: Uncertainty, Innovation and Search for Order |
| Greven, Katharina | ⇒ | Kenianische Bildtopografien. Fotografien als Manifestation von Gemeinschaften und kollektiven Gedächtnissen in Kenia |
| Hänisch, Valerie | ⇒ | Handwerk als Auftragsarbeit – Eine ethnologische Untersuchung über Arbeit und die Beziehung der Handwerker der Tuareg zu ihren Auftraggebern |
| Hänsch, Valerie | ⇒ | Reconstruction of Locality. The Merowe Dam in Northern Sudan and the Resettlement of the Manasir |
| Hailu, Aychegrew | ⇒ | Towards a History of Non-Governmental Organizations in the context of Ethiopian Society (1960s to 2012) |
| Igwe, Leo | ⇒ | Witchcraft Accusation – A Case Study of Northern Ghana |
| Janßen, geb. Schütze, Jaana | ⇒ | Migrants' networkings as places for enacting difference and sameness. Somalis in Finland and Germany (working title) |
| Kamdem, Hector | ⇒ | Discourse Strategies in Cameroonian Political Text and Talk |
| Kiragu, Serah | ⇒ | Undeveloped Adaptation - Climate risks, vulnerability and household well-being in Mwingi / Kenya |
| Köppen, Grit | ⇒ | Cooperations between African Performing Artists and the Goethe-Institut |
| Kopecka, Tina Ziva | ⇒ | Hindu Temple Ritual Worship in Durban, South Africa |
| Koto, Yawo | ⇒ | Environnement et médias en Afrique francophone. La représentation de l’environnement dans la littérature et le cinéma africains francophones au sud du Sahara |
| Kozi, Marie-Laure | ⇒ | Description comparative des langues du sous-groupe Bia Nord: agni, baoulé, anufo |
| Kuhn, Tobias | ⇒ | Intention und Konflikt: Ethnografie einer islamischen Geheimwissenschaft |
| Lar, Jimam Timchang | ⇒ | Vigilantism, State, and Society in Plateau State, Nigeria: A History of Conflict, Cooperation, and Compromise (1950 to the present) |
| Mané, Fodé Abulat | ⇒ | Local actors and institutions of conflict resolution: the case of the Bambadinca Sector (Eastern Guinea-Bissau) |
| Marowa, Ivan | ⇒ | Environment and Social Memory Among the Dandawa Korekore of Zimbabwe: A History of Development, 1900-2000 |
| Materna, Georg | ⇒ | Small Tourism Entrepreneurs in Senegal: Work between State and Tourism Industry |
| Mbaye, Aminata Cecile | ⇒ | La construction du «corps sénégalais»: Analyse du discours sur les «homosexualités» |
| Mekonnen, Mulugeta | ⇒ | Transnational Migration-Development Nexus: The Role of Ethiopian Immigrants in Germany as a Development Actor |
| Mendes, Paulina | ⇒ | The Manjaco facing uncertainty: At the crossroads of local and universal knowledge |
| Mkumbukwa, Abdallah | ⇒ | The History and Conservation of Marine Resources in Zanzibar: Early Colonial Period to the Present |
| Mohammed Ali, Rami | ⇒ | Pursuing Order on Sudanese Hinterland Roads: An Ethnography of Travel Communities. |
| Mohammed, Bakheit | ⇒ | The holy men in the local communities of Jebel Marra, Darfur region, Sudan |
| Morisho, Nene | ⇒ | A New Institutional Economics Approach to Cross Border Small Business: A Case Study of Goma/Gisenyi Border |
| Mtata, Kupakwashe | ⇒ | Religion and Nature: The Case of Matobo National Park and its Vicinity |
| Nambula, Katharina | ⇒ | Female Identity between Passivity and Agency, Contemporary Fiction by Ugandan Women Writers |
| Narh, Peter | ⇒ | Environmental governance in Ghana |
| Ndogo, Samuel | ⇒ | Narrating the Self and Nation in Kenyan Autobiographical Writings |
| Nganga, Simon | ⇒ | Linguistic and conversational devices in funeral performances: A Contribution to Comparative Genre Analysis |
| Ng'atigwa, Francis | ⇒ | Influence Assessment on Audiences of Religious Radio Broadcasts in Tanzania |
| Ngawa, Carline | ⇒ | Langue(s) et santé: les stratégies de communication dans le domaine de la santé à Douala |
| Nicoué, Delia | ⇒ | Migration as Learning Process: The Case of Ethiopian Female Migration to the Middle East and Europe |
| Nrenzah, Genevieve | ⇒ | Ghana’s new Indigenous Priests and their Followers: Contemporary Development on Ghana Religious Landscape |
| Ofuatey-Alazard, Nadja | ⇒ | PerspektivWechsel - Europabilder in afrikanischen Literaturen seit der Négritude |
| Omanga, Duncan Mainye | ⇒ | The Media and Terrorism: Editorial Cartoons, Framing and Legitimacy in the Kenyan Press, 1998-2008 |
| Otundo, Billian | ⇒ | Exploring Regional Varieties of English in Kenya: Intonational Variation among the Bukusu and Nandi |
| Owino, Robert | ⇒ | Transboundary Ecosystem Governance: An Assessment of the East African Community Legal Framework and Practice |
| Oyali, Uchenna Paul | ⇒ | History of Translations in Nigeria: The Case of English and Igbo |
| Riahi, Idris | ⇒ | Conceptualizing Witchcraft - Investigating the Cultural and Cognitive Dimensions of Magic-Related Discourses in West African Context: A Case Study |
| Rieß, Johanna | ⇒ | Internettechnologie und Internetnutzung in Nairobi/Kenia: Historische und aktuelle Aspekte |
| Rudic, geb. Kryck, Christiane | ⇒ | Saving Brick by Brick - How the residents of informal settlements invest in housing and how housing finance strategies are affected by development intervention. A case study from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. |
| Sabbi, Matthew | ⇒ | Public Sector Reforms and the Problem of Legitimacy: The Case of Ghana's Civil Service |
| Scheffler, Jennifer | ⇒ | Ethnotourismus in der Kalahari |
| Schwarz, Fabian | ⇒ | Sustainable bioenergy and biofuel potentials from agricultural crops and residues in Uganda and Tanzania |
| Shang, Ndi Gilbert | ⇒ | State and Society: Narrating Transformations in selected African novels |
| Siegert, Nadine | ⇒ | (Re)mapping Luanda: Nostalgia und Utopia in der ästhetischen Praxis |
| Solitoke, Essoham | ⇒ | Autorité locale entre traditionalisme, modernisme et opportunisme: Discours et pratiques de légitimation chez les Dompago/Logba du Nord-Dahomey/Bénin et du Nord-Togo, 1898-2010 |
| Stasik, Michael | ⇒ | Dis/Ordering the Station. An Ethnography of a West African Travel Hub |
| Šváblová, geb. Dunajová, Alžběta | ⇒ | Actor interaction in post-war Liberia |
| Talento, Serena | ⇒ | The Translation of Foreign Texts into Swahili: A Critical Approach |
| Teca, Afonso | ⇒ | La voix verbale en Kizombo (H.10h) |
| Traoré, Daouda | ⇒ | The Senar (a Senufo language of Burkina Faso): elements of description and influences of the lingua franca Dyula in a context of languages contact |
| Trivino Cely, Diana Carolina | ⇒ | Liebe, Verliebtheit und Sexualität im Kontext der Prostitution in Antsiranana (Madagaskar) |
| Turner, Irina | ⇒ | Businified Political Discourse on the State of the South African Nation: A Dialogue between Presidential Speeches and Newspaper Reports |
| Umlauf, René | ⇒ | "Flüchtiges Wissen" - "Widerspenstige Helfer" |
| Ungruhe, Christian | ⇒ | Kayagirls and Truckpushboys: Labour, Youth, and Achieving Adulthood among Northern Ghanaian Migrants in the Southern Cities |
| Vehrs, Hauke-Peter | ⇒ | Die (Wissens-)Produktion von Gummi Arabikum in Nordost-Nigeria. Eine ethnologische Perspektive auf das Konzept der 'Arbeit' vor dem Hintergrund der Kommodifizierung von Gummi Arabikum und der Modernisierung des Anbaus |
| Wafula, Magdaline | ⇒ | Narration and Generational Conflicts in Selected Swahili Novels |
| Weisser, Florian | ⇒ | Translating adaptation to climate change: the politics of a travelling idea in Uganda |
| Wijngaarden, Vanessa | ⇒ | ‘White people’ and ‘noble savages’: Images and interaction during cultural tourism encounters in Eastern Africa |
| Willers, Julia | ⇒ | The embedding of “climate change” as a global discourse into national politics and its influence on institutions and actors in Ethiopia |
| Woldegiorgis, Emnet Tadesse | ⇒ | Harmonization of Higher Education Systems in Africa as a Development Policy, Challenges and Prospects: A Comparative Study with European Experience. |
| Wolfer, Claudia | ⇒ | Idiomatic Structures in Egyptian Arabic |
| Zöller, Katharina | ⇒ | Religious Movements and the Quest for Order in Tanganyikan Society, 1920s-1960s |
