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

Cluster fellow Dr. Anthony Okeregbe talks with his host Dr. Serawit Debele, leader of the Cluster's Junior Research Group on Intersectionality, about his recent project entitled "The Child’s Right to ‘Sex’: Negotiating Sexuality Pedagogies in Entangled Moral Spaces".

Anthony Okeregbe, Ph.D, is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department  of Philosophy, University of Lagos (UNILAG), and also a Principal  Investigator at the Lagos African Cluster Centre of Excellence (ACC) of the  Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, University of Bayreuth, Germany.  Born in Lagos where he lives with his family, Anthony Okeregbe had his early  education in Lagos and Ibadan. He has a BA (Hons.) from the  University of Ibadan (1991), MA (1994) and Ph.D (2004) in Philosophy from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. His teaching and research interests are in  Philosophy of Religion, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Philosophy  and Contemporary African lifeworlds. He is presently a member of the  UNILAG Postgraduate Board and chair of the Postgraduate Committee of the  Department of Philosophy. From 2012-2014 he was Co-editor of Nigerian Journal of Philosophy.

Dr. Serawit Debele is the leader of the Junior Research Group "Sexualities, Political Orders and Revolutions in Africa: into the heart of Tunisia, Ethiopia and Sudan" at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence.  

Dr. Lamine Doumbia who is a fellow of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence talks with his host Prof. Dr. Andrea Behrends  about his research surrounding urban land governance in West Africa  (Dakar, Bamako and Ouagadougou) from a socio-anthropological  perspective.

Abdilatif Abdalla who was in Bayreuth as guest for the series of events on the Indian Ocean, in conversation with Clarissa Vierke, Professor of Literatures in African Languages at the University of Bayreuth.  Abdilatif Abdalla is a Kenyan poet, publicist and university lecturer and considered one of the best-known Swahili poets of the present day. Since 1995, Abdalla has taught Swahili at the University of Leipzig.

The ninth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Dr. Kai Koddenbrock about "African states in world markets: Systemic hierarchies and the postcolonial International Political Economy of governing Senegal".

The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence.

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The eighth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Dr Kamal Donko highlighting "Local perceptions on Migration Control and Local Economy in the Kantchari-Makalondi Borderland."

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The seventh episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 30-minute discussion with Dr. Christian A. Williams, titled “Liberation Movement Camps in Southern Africa”

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The sixth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast entails a 30-minute discussion with Dr. Fredrick O. Okaka - a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Moi University - titled "Emerging (im)mobility trends along the LAPSSET corridor".

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The fifth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 30-minute talk with Dr. Franca Attoh & Dr. Kayode Eesuola titled: "A cross sectional survey on IntraAfrican Migration and Xenophobia"

The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence.

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The fourth episode of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence podcast presents a 20-minute talk and 20-minute debate with Larissa Schindler - Professor for Sociology at the University of Bayreuth - entitled "Im/mobilities and their research methods".

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The third episode of the Cluster's Sprint Lectures on African mobilities presents a talk entitled "COVID-19 and the politics of (im)mobility in Uganda" with with Paddy Kinyera (Postdoctoral researcher in Political Geography at University of Bayreuth) and Martin Doevenspeck (Professor for Political Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany).

The sprint lectures on planetary mobility struggles are brought to you by the Research Section Mobilities of the Cluster of Excellence. They invite scholars to give short lectures on struggles around the im/mobilities of people, things and ideas in Africa and of Africans. Followed by a short interdisciplinary discussion giving brief insights into emerging issues and research projects. 

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