Fellows

Dr. Jeremiah O. Arowosegbe is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His areas of research interest and teaching specialization include African Development, African Intellectual History, and African Studies, as well as African Politics, African Political Thought, Political Theory, and Political Thought, respectively. He has held visiting academic appointments and positions as A. C. Jordan Fellow of African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa (2013-2014); Andrew W. Mellon Fellow of the Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa (2010-2011); Guest Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden

Noah Echa Attah is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies, Joseph Ayo Babalola University, Nigeria. He holds a PhD and an MA in History from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, as well as a BA in History from Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria. He is also a 2012 African Humanities Programme of the American Council of Learned Society Postdoctoral Fellow. His research focus is on agrarian studies, environmental studies, and conflicts over land. He has published extensively, including co-editing Critical Perspectives on Peace, Conflict and Warfare in Africa and editing Philosophy, Islamic Culture and

Tamer Mohammed Ahmed Abd Elkreem is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, an MPhil in Anthropology of Development from Bergen University, Norway, and a BSc in Sociology and Social Anthropology from the University of Khartoum, Sudan. His PhD dissertation focused on the “Power Relations of Development,” which is the topic of his forthcoming book manuscript. He has published articles on “Whose Dam? The Danger of Narrowly Defined Development: The Case of Kajbar Dam, Northern Sudan,” in Modern Africa:

Pamela Chepngetich is currently a lecturer at the faculty of Information Science & Technology at Kisii University, Kenya. Dr. Chepngetich holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, where she was a junior fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS). Her doctoral thesis there focused on the representation and self-representation of refugees in Kenya’s Daadab Refugee Camp. Her research interests are in representation, photography, social media and online activism as well as radio ethnography. Presently, her APN research probes how radio fan clubs are convened, and how they (un)consciously play a role

Jamal Bahmad is an assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. He earned his PhD from the University of Stirling, United Kingdom, with a dissertation on Moroccan urban cinema since 1990s. He has held a British Academy postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Leeds and, prior to that, was a research fellow at Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany. Dr. Bahmad specializes and has published widely in the field of North African cultural studies with a focus on cinema, cities, literature, memory, and youth cultures. He is currently working on his first monograph on

Chantal Marie Ingabire works as a senior researcher for Community Based Sociotherapy in Rwanda and a part-time lecturer at the University of Rwanda. She holds a master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a PhD in Public Health from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. She has done extensive and diverse health research and currently interested in exploring the interlinkage between mental health, psychosocial support, and peacebuilding processes in post-genocide Rwanda with a particular emphasis on youth. She is coordinating research that explores the dynamism of intergenerational transmission of trauma and violence among youth, an innovative research that

Fana Gebresenbet Erda is an assistant professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies, Addis Ababa University. He coordinates the Institute’s PhD programme in Peace and Security Studies. He received his PhD in Global and Area Studies, with special emphasis on peace and security in Africa, from the University of Leipzig and Addis Ababa University. His dissertation was on “The Political Economy of Land Investments: Dispossession, Resistance and Territory-Making in Gambella, Western Ethiopia.” His research interests include resource politics, politics of development, climate security, and pastoralism in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. He has published journal articles and