"Reconfiguring African Studies" Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth

Cluster fellow Dr. Noemi Alfieri talks with her host and Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen about her latest research project "Mapping anti-colonial networks through literature. Transnational connections of African thinkers in the reconfiguration of space and thought (1950s - 70s)".

Cluster fellow Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi talks with his host Dr. Katharina Fink about his life, his love for music, his artist fellowship in the Cluster and his latest project - a music-based story set in the ancient Zulu capital of Umgungundlovu.

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In this latest episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster Dr. Anthony

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In the latest episode of the Cluster Conversations fellow Prof. Dr. Pamila Gupta talks with her hosts Prof. Dr. Ute Fendler and Prof. Dr. Clarissa Vierke on her latest project “From Indian Ocean to African Indian: Through the refracted lens of Capital Art Studio, Zanzibar

In this latest episode of the Cluster Conversations fellow Dr. Faisal Garba Muhammed talks with his fellowship host Prof. Dr. Stefan Ouma about his research project in which he scrutzinizes datasets on mobility in Africa that he collected for almost 20 years. They also explore the need for a macrosociology in/of Africa.

In the month of May 2023, the poet and musician Jean Luc Raharimanana from Madagascar was invited by the Cluster of Excellence to accompany the Cluster's events and record his observations. In this episode of the Cluster Conversations Junior Research Group Leader Dr. Cassandra Mark-Thiesen took the opportunity to talk to the malagassy artist about paralells between her work and his.

The Conversation is in French and English.

In this latest episode of the Cluster Conversations Cluster fellow Dr. Wandia Njoya talks with Prof. Dr. Carlos Kölbl about her research project in which she researches new ways of conceiving and engaging with experiences of education in Kenya and other comparable contexts.

In this episode, Cluster fellow Prof. Dr. Stephen Brown from the University of Ottawa talks with his host Prof. Dr. Thoko Kaime about the situation of the LGBTQ community on the African continent and his project "Strategic Litigation and the Decriminalization of Homosexuality in Africa" which he is currently working on during his fellowship at the Cluster of Excellence.

Cluster fellows Dr. Judith Bachmann and Dr. Femi Jegede are in Bayreuth to work on their tandem project “The Conquest of Distance”. In this episode of the Cluster Conversations the two fellows talk with their host Prof. Dr. Eva Spies, Professor for the Study of Religion with focus on Africa at the University of Bayreuth about their project and how they approach the subject "Ifá practices" from different angles.

Find out more about Judith Bachmann ⁠here⁠ and about Femi Jegede ⁠here⁠.

In this episode, Iris Clemens - Chair of Educational Science at the  University of Bayreuth and Principal Investigator of the Africa Multiple  Cluster of Excellence - talks with Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina from the Jawaharlal  Nehru University, New Delhi, where he teaches the history and  philosophy of science. Together they are having a conversation about Prof. Raina's current research that he worked on during his fellowship  at the Cluster - the evolution of the university system and the tranfer of knowledge on the African continent. For more info on Prof. Raina's work please visit the website of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.