2009–2011

The Negotiation of Culture through Video Films and Bongo Flava Music in Tanzania Researchers: Dr. Uta Reuster-Jahn, Gabriel Hacke, M.A., Claudia Boehme, M.A., funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

2007–2009

„Weiße Rollen“ im schwarzafrikanischen Film. Zur interkulturellen Aushandlung von Identitätsentwürfen (The „white role“ in African cinema. On the inter-cultural negotiation of identity)
Researcher: Cassis Kilian, M.A., in collaboration with Dr. Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, University of Frankfurt, funded by University of Mainz (Forschungsfonds) and Centre for Intercultural Studies (ZIS) at University of Mainz

2006

Populäre Kultur an der Schnittstelle des Globalen und Lokalen. Musik-, Bild- und Textproduktion in Ostafrika. (Popular culture at the interface of the global and the local. Music, images and texts in East-Africa)
Researcher: Claudia Boehme, M.A., in collaboration with Dr. Uta Reuster-Jahn and Dr. Wolfgang Bender, funded by University of Mainz (Forschungsfonds)

2005

Lokale Medienpraxen und -diskurse III: Nigerianische Videofilmproduktion und Agency (Local media practices and discourses III: Agency in Nigerian video film production), Research School “Media and Cultural Communication”, University of Cologne (Head of project: Heike Behrend), funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

2003–2004

Lokale Medienpraxen und -diskurse II: Kassettenkultur und Horrorfilme in Nigeria, (Local media practices and discourses II: Cassette culture and horror films in Nigeria), Research School “Media and Cultural Communication”, University of Cologne (Head of project: Heike Behrend), funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

1996–2002

Gemeinschaftsbildende Faktoren in Siedlungsneugründungen am Tschadsee(Social factors of community formation in new settlements at Lake Chad), Special Research Program "West-African Savannah", University of Frankfurt (Head of project: Karl-Heinz Kohl), funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.