2010
E. Edlyne Anugwom
Edlyne Anugwom is a Georg Forster (Alexander von Humboldt) Fellow at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies where he is working in collaboration with Dr. Anna-Maria Brandstetter on the project, From Biafra to the Niger Delta Conflict: Memory, Ethnicity and State in Nigeria. The fellowship period is from December 2010 – July 2011 and October 2011 – May 2012. Edlyne is permanently with the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka where he teaches and researches on the political sociology of African development; labour and industrial sociology; and social transformation. Edlyne is also the current Secretary-General of the Pan African Anthropologists Association (PAAA) and the Nigeria Co-ordinator of the PAAA/UNESCO-MOST Ethno-Net Program. A prolific writer, Edlyne is also the current Editor of the journal “African Anthropologist” published by CODESRIA. Widely travelled Edlyne has held fellowship positions in Leiden (ASC); Edinburgh (CAS); Birmingham (CWAS) and Wassenaar (NIAS). In addition, Edlyne serves as consultant on development issues to such organizations as UNDP, WHO, Ford Foundation, DFiD, UNESCO etc. He is currently a full professor of Industrial/Labour Sociology and African Development at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Vom Krieg in Biafra zum Konflikt im Niger-Delta, JGU Magazin 9.5.2012
Research Interests: Memory and Social Conflict; Politics of Resource Allocation and Management; Occult Imageries in African Development; and the Socio-Economy of Diaspora Labour in Africa.
Recent Publications:
Anugwom, E. E (2008). “University Training and Work Experience of Nigerian Engineers: Implications for Technological Development”. African Administrative Studies, No. 70: 117 - 137.
Anugwom, E.E (2008). “Contested Terrain: Economic Migration, Islamic Sharia Law and Ethno-Religious Conflict in Nigeria”. African Study Monographs, 29 (4): 159 - 181.
Anugwom, E.E and Cynthia Golembeski (2008) . “Oil Extraction and Health in the Niger Delta”, in David McCoy; Antoinette Ntuli; and David Sanders (eds) Global Health Watch 2: An Alternative World Health Report. London and New York: Zed Books; pp.170-184.
Anugwom, E.E (2009). “The Other Side of Civil Society Story: Women, Oil and the Niger Delta Environmental Struggle in Nigeria”. GeoJournal, 74: 333 - 346.
Anugwom, E.E (2009). “Cultural Differences in Negotiation”, in Mariam Ikejiani-Clark (ed.) Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution in Nigeria: A Reader. Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited. Pp. 142-158.
Anugwom, E.E (2010). Industrial Sociology: Concepts and Characteristics. Nsukka: University of Nigeria Press.
Anugwom, E.E (2010). “In the Absence of the Father: Niger Delta Conflict as a Discourse of Leadership Inertia in Nigeria”, in Egodi Uchendu; Pat Okpoko and E. Anugwom (eds) Perspectives on Leadership in Africa. Nsukka: Afro – Orbis Pub. Pp. 204-236.
Anugwom, E.E (2010). “The Bonnke Effect: Encounters with Transnational Evangelism in Southeastern Nigeria”, in Afe Adogame and Jim Pickard (eds) Religion Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Religious and Social Dynamics in Africa and the New Africa Diaspora. Leiden: Brill Pub. Pp. 211-226.
Contact in Mainz:
Email: edlyneeze@yahoo.com and anugwom@uni-mainz.de,
Room 00-650, Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz,
Tel: 0049(0)61313922870
2009
Onookome Okome
Professor of English and Film Studies African Literature and Cinema
Department of English and Film Studies University of Alberta, Edmonton
Canada T6G 2E5
Tel: 780-492-7819
Email: ookome@ualberta.ca
Fellowship/Sponsor: Alexander von Humboldt, Bonn.
Title of research projects pursued in Mainz:
1."Nollywood and Beyond Symposium" (May 13-16, 2009)
2."Freedom, Highlife and the Politics of West African Highife Music of the 1950s and 1960s" Duration of stay: 3 months (April-July, 2009)
Research interests: African arts, Literature, cinema
Onookome Okome earned his PhD from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1991 and taught theater and cinema studies at the Department of Theatre Arts, University of Calabar, Nigeria from 1989 to 2002.
He co-authored "Cinema and Social Change in West Africa" (Jos: Nigerian Film Corporation) with Jonathan Haynes of Brooklyn College, New York. He edited "Before I am Hanged: Ken Saro-Wiwa, Literature, Politics and Dissent," a book of essays on the slain minority rights activist published by Africa World Press, New Jersey. In 2004, he edited a collection of essays on Africa’s first Nobel laureate for literature, Professor Wole Soyinka "Ogun’s Children: The Literature and Politics of Wole Soyinka Since the Nobel" (AWP). He has also edited and introduced a book of essays on the Niger Delta poet and scholar based in North Carolina, Professor Tanure Ojaide, "Writing the Homeland: The Poetry and Politics of Tanure Ojaide" (Bayreuth African Studies Press (2002). He has published numerous essays on the video film phenomenon in West Africa, including the co-authored essay, “Evolving Popular Media: Nigerian Video Film,” (Research in African Literatures, 29/3, 1998), the first attempt to theorize this popular media. He is currently working on a book of essays on re-thinking Chinua Achebe in the literary debate on globality/locality and a full length study of the video film phenomenon in Nigeria, "Stories About the Postcolony: The Nigerian Video Film."
Dr. Okome is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. Widely traveled, he has given lectures in Israel, Switzerland, Ghana, Germany, England, Italy, the US and Canada. Professor Okome is full professor of African literature and cinema at the Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada.
Naomi Nkealah
Ph.D candidate, Department of African Literature
School of Literature and Language Studies
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Email: naonkealah@yahoo.com
Scholar of the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) at the Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, working on a Ph.D thesis on Women, Power and Visions of Change in Anglophone Cameroon Drama under the mentorship of Dr Anja Oed. Visiting scholar at the Institut from April to September 2009.
Research interests: Women and Islam in North African women’s writing; Nationhood in Anglophone Cameroon Drama; Feminisms in Africa; Gender and cyberspace.
Recent publications
Nkealah, Naomi. 2009. ‘Contesting the culture of silence in Muslim women’s writing: Women, sex and marriage in Alifa Rifaat’s Distant View of a Minaret’. In the English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, Vol. 26 No 1, May 2009.
Nkealah, Naomi. 2008. ‘On the margins of orthodox and applied theatre: Memory, expiation and healing in Bole Butake’s play, Family Saga’, co-authored with Christopher Odhiambo. Applied Theatre Researcher/IDEA Journal, Number 9, 2008: pp.1-12. Link to Journal: http://www.griffith.edu.au/arts-languages-criminology/centre-public-culture-ideas/research/applied-theatre/publications/issues.
Nkealah, Naomi. 2008. ‘Reconciling Arabo-Islamic culture and feminist consciousness in North African women’s writing: Silence and voice in the short stories of Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar’. Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (Journal of Literature), 45(1): pp. 19-41.
Nkealah, Naomi. 2006. ‘Conceptualizing feminism(s) in Africa: the challenges facing African women writers and critics’. English Academy Review: Southern African Journal of English Studies, Vol. 23: pp. 133-141.
Aderemi Suleiman Ajala
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology,
University of Ibadan, Ibadan. Nigeria.
Archaeology Building, Faculty of Science,
University of Ibadan.
0234 (0) 803 490 6801
E-Mail: asajala@yahoo.co.uk
Research Fellow, Georg Forster Fellowship of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, mentored by Prof. Carola Lentz and working on a book manuscript on Yoruba nationalism, political ethnicity and violence in western Nigeria. Guest at the department between January 2009 and October 2009.
Research Interests: Ethnography; Public Health in Nigeria; Anthropological theories; Yoruba identity, politics and social movements.
Recent Publications
Ajala, A.S. 2008. “Ifa Divination as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Device in Yoruba Haling System”, in: Babawale, T and A. Alao (eds.) Global African Spirituality, Social Capital and Self-reliance in Africa. Lagos, Centre for Black African Arts and Culture, 215-232.
Ajala, A.S. 2008. “Anthropology (in the 21st Century) as a Borderless Discipline: Implications for Archaeological Studies in Nigeria”. Nyame Akuma 69 (June):23-30.
Ajala, A.S. 2008. “Obafemi Awolowo and the Beginning of the Yoruba Political Image in Nigeria”. Journal of Environment and Culture, 5(1):29-48.
Ajala, A.S. 2008. “Space and Identity in Ibadan Politics, Western Nigeria”. African Identities 6(1):149-168.
Ajala, A.S. 2008. Book Review: “International perspectives of youth conflict and development”, by Daiute, C; Z. Beykat et al (eds.), Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2006 Journal of Environment and Culture, 4(2): 62-65.
Ajala, A.S and Adejumo, P.O. 2007. “Cultural Determinant of Care and Support for PLWAs in Yoruba Communities of Ibadan and Ilesa, Nigeria”. Journal of HIV/AIDS and Social Services 6(4): 83-104.
Ajala, A.S. 2007. “Socio-cultural Factors Influencing the Prevalence, Care and Support in HIV/AIDS among the Yoruba of South-western Nigeria”. African Journal of Health Sciences, 14(1-2):61-69.
Ajala, A.S. 2007. “HIV/AIDS in Yoruba Perspectives: A Conceptual Discourse.” Journal of Social Science 14(3): 235-241.
George Olusola Ajibade
Department of Linguistics and African Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
Email: ajibadeb@oauife.edu.ng, solajibade@yahoo.com. Tel: +234-806-210-9625
Dr Ajibade earned his doctoral degree in Yorùbá Language and Literature from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, on Ethnography of Ọ̀ṣun Cult in Osogbo Community in South Western Nigeria with emphasis on the Visual and the Verbal Languages of Ọ̀ṣun. Dr AJIBADE George Olusola teaches African literature and folklore in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Ajibade’s research interests are in African Cultural Studies, popular culture, critical social and literary theories and folklore. He is also author of a number of articles on Yorùbá cultural studies. He was a Research Fellow at the Institute for African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany, under project titled “Imagination, Aesthetic and the Global Art World (B4)” carried out under the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre of University of Bayreuth, Germany, 2000-2004. Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2004-2005); and an Alexander Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology and African Studies, University of Mainz, Germany in 2009.
Host: Dr Anja Oed
Current Publications
Ajibade, G.O. 2005. “Is there no Man with Penis in this Land? Eroticism and Performance in Yorùbá Nuptial Songs,” African Study Monographs, Centre for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. 26, (2): 99-113.
Ajibade, G. O. 2005. “A Socio-cultural Study of Àbíkú Songs in Yorùbá Land”, Ntama Journal of Music and Popular Culture, University of Mainz, Germany.
Ajibade, G.O. 2005. Negotiating Performance: Òşun in the Verbal and the Visual Metaphors, African Studies Working Papers, No 4, University of Bayreuth, Germany. http://www.uni-bayreuth.de/sfbs/sfb-fk560/index-publikationen.html. 159 pages.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. “Inscriptions of Ethics of Labour and Productivity in Yorùbá Proverbs”, Proverbium, Department of English, University of Vermont, Burlington, USA. (23): 31-48.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. “Animals in the Traditional Worldview of the Yorùbá,” Folklore, 10, (30): 155-172.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. "Hearthstones: Religion, Ethics and Medicine in the Healing Process in the Traditional Yoruba Society", In: Beatrice Nicolini Ed. Studies in Witchcraft, Magic, War and Peace in Africa: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centruries. Lewiston, Queenston and Lampester: The Edwin Mellen Press, pp.193-213.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. “Depiction of Sexuality in Yorùbá Oral Poetry,” In: Merril D. Smith (ed) The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Sex and Culture: The Colonial and Revolutionary Age, Westport USA: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. “Yorùbá Men, Yorùbá Women”, In: Adam Jones (ed) Men of the Global South, A Reader, New Haven: Zed Books. Pp 375-376.
Ajibade, G.O. 2006. “Religious Orientation, Space Transformation and Power Relations among the Southwestern Yorùbá of Nigeria”, in Dialogue and Alliance, Vol. 20, (1): 73-103, New York.
Ajibade, G. O. 2007. “New Wine in Old Cup: Postcolonial Performance of Christian Music in Yorùbá Land”, Studies in World Christianity, 13. (1): 105-126, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Ajibade, G.O. 2008. “Representation of Gender Discourse in the Poetry of Akínwùmí Isola” In: Emerging Perspectives on Akinwumi Isola edited by Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola, Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press. Pp 273-287.
Ajibade, G. O. 2009. “Ṣàngó’s Ẹẹ́rìndínlógún Divinatory System”, In: Ṣàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora, Edited by Tishken Joel, Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. Pp 111-132.
2008
Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem
Professeur titulaire, Département des Sciences historiques, Université de Kinshasa Chercheur associé au CEMAF (Centre des mondes africains) à l'Université Paris I, séminaire de recherche: "Transmission de l'Etat colonial"
Président de la Société des Historiens du Congo Membre Correspondant de l'Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer (Bruxelles)
Professeur invité aux universités, Laval de Quebec, Marien Ngouabi de Brazzaville
Email: isidorendaywel@yahoo.fr
Chercheur-enseignant de Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Projet de recherche: "Culture et société au Congo: une anthropologie sociale du quotidien"
Séjour de recherche au Departement d'Anthropologie et d'Études africaines, Université de Mayence: 3 mois, 1 November 2008 - 31 Januar 2009
Domaine de recherche: Histoire politique et culturelle, Afrique centrale particulièrement la République Démocratique du Congo
Publications choisis:
Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore, 1998: Histoire générale du Congo: de l'heritage ancien à la République Démocratique. Paris [u.a.]: Duculot.
Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore, (dir.), 2003: Les langues africaines et créoles face à leur avenir. Paris [u.a.]: Agence Inter. de la Francophonie [u.a.].
Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore, (dir.), 2007: L'université dans le devenir de l'Afrique: un demi-siècle de présence au Congo-Zaire. Brüssel: CUD [u.a.].
Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore, 2008: "L'Union pour la Méditerranée: un projet pour diviser l'Afrique et tourner le dos à la Francophonie". In: Adame Ba Konaré (dir.): Petit précis de remise à niveau sur l'histoire africaine à l'usage du président Sarkozy. Paris: Découverte, 269-280.
Alou Keita
Département de Linguistique, U.F.R.
Lettres, Arts et Communication, Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Email: Alukeyita@netcourrier.com
Research Fellow des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes.
Aufenthaltsdauer: 3 Monate, 01.07.2008 - 30.09.2008
Host: Prof. Dr. Raimund Kastenholz
Forschungsthemen/Field Research: Sémantique, Lexicologie, Lexicographie, Terminologie Dioula et Francais regional
Aktuelle Publikationen:
Keita, Alou: Variation lexicale et règles orthographiques : cas du dioula. Cahiers du CERLESHS, no spécial : Hommages aux professeurs B. COULIBALY et H. SANWIDI (2003).
Keita, Alou: Etude des « GO » : joutes oratoires des adolescents en dioula. Cahiers du CERLESHS, no 20, 2003, Presses universitaires de Ouagadougou, pp. 83-113.
Keita, Alou: Etude de la synonymie lexicale en français parlé au Burkina (FPB). Langues et linguistique, Université Laval, Québec, volume 29, 2003, pp. 53-101.
Keita, Alou: Quelques difficultés d’élaboration des dictionnaires bilingues : langue africaine – français, français – langue africaine. Revue du CAMES Série B Vol. 004, 2002, pp. 34-44.
Keita, Alou: La non notation des tons en transcription orthographique du dioula : quelques points de réflexion. Mandenkan no 37, Automne 2001, pp. 33-48.
2007
Khalil Alio
Départment des Sciences du Langage Université de N'Djamena, Tchad
Email: alliok@yahoo.fr
Research Fellow des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes.
Aufenthaltsdauer: 2 Monate, 01.04.2007 - 31.05.2007
Host: Prof. Dr. Raimund Kastenholz
Forschungsthemen/Field Research: Grammatik, Sprachkontakt, Sprache und Kultur der tschadischen Sprachen der Gueraregion (Zentral-Osttschad)
Aktuelle Publikationen:
Alio, Khalil: Education bilingue au Tchad. De la théorie à la pratique. In Travaux de Linguistique Tchadienne No 8, p. 5-28, 2007.
Alio, Khalil: Préliminaire á une étude de la langue Kadjakse d'Am-Dam, de toram du Salamat, d'ubi du Guéra et de masmaje du Batta. In Egyptian and Semi-Hamitic (afro-Asiatic) studies. In Memoriam W.Vycichl, Takacs (ed.). Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Alio, Khalil: Sússúna, Contes Bidiya. Westafrikanische Studien, Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Email:
2006
Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike
Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria.
Email: m_omibiyi@yahoo.co.uk
Research Professor of Musicology, former Director of the Institute of African Studies 1995-1998; 2001-2004
Research Fellow der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Currently on a renewed research visit to Germany for three months from December 2006 - February 2007. While here working in collaboration with Dr. Bender on the retrieval of recorded material in the archive of the Institute at the University of Ibadan
Areas of Interest: Documentation of African Music and musical instruments and development of instructional materials for African music education.
Recent Publications:
Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike: Feminity in Traditional Festivals: The Place of Women in Sango worship Performance. Journal of Musicological Society of Nigeria Vol 1, No. 1, 2006.
Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike: African Art Music and the Contributions of Women in the Colonial Nigeria. African Notes Vol. 1, No. 1, 2005.
Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike: Akun Euba: The African Art Music Composer at the University of Ife 1970-1977. In: Bode Omojola and George Dor (eds.) Multiple Interpretations of Dynamics of Creativity and Knowledge in African Music Traditions. California MRI Press, 2005, p. 27-45.
Mosunmola Ayinke Omibiyi-Obidike: International Music Education: Implications for African Music Education in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Musicological Society of NigeriaIbadan, John Archers Publishers, 2005. Email: m_omibiyi@yahoo.co.uk
André Motingea Mangulu
Département des Lettres et Civilisations Africain, Université Pédagogique Nationale, Kinshasa Dem. Rep. Kongo
Email: motingea@hotmail.com
Research Fellow der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Aufenthaltsdauer: 3 Monate, 21.9.2006-18.12.2006
Host: Prof. Dr. Raimund Kastenholz
Forschungsthemen/Field Research: Grammatik und Geschichte der Bantusprachen, insbesondere der Gruppe C, in der Dem. Rep. Kongo, afrikanische Sprachen
Aktuelle Publikationen:
André Motingea Mangulu: Leboale et lebaate: Langues bantoues du plateau des Uélé, Afrique Centrale. Tokyo: ILCAA Language Monograph, 2005, 197 pp.
André Motingea Mangulu: Extensions formelles et suffixes dérivatifs en bantou du groupe C30. In: Studies in African Comparative Linguistics, with Special Focus on Bantu and Mande. (Ed. Koen Bostoen & Jacky Maniacky) Tervuren: Royal Museum for Central Africa, 2005, p. 361 - 373.
André Motingea Mangulu: Lingala Courant: Grammaire Pédagogique de Référence. Tokyo: Institut for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2006.
André Motingea Mangulu et Shigeki Kaji: Apprendre le lingala comme langue étrangère en vingt lecons. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2006, 167 pp.
2005
Ayodeji Olukoju
Department of History and Strategic Studies,
University of Lagos, Akoka-Yaba,Lagos, Nigeria.
Email: aolukoju2002@yahoo.com
Forschungsthema in Mainz: Lokalpolitik in Nigeria
Publikation:
Actors and Institutions in Urban Politics in Nigeria: Agege(Lagos) since the 1950s, Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Nr 58