Notes on Contributors

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Gérard Amougou

teaches in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Ya-oundé II, Cameroon. He is a researcher at CERDAP (UYII) and the Paul Ango Ela Foundation. He is also a laureate of the African Post-doctoral Pilot Academy (PAPA). He was a researcher in the research project ‘The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States’ Development Strate-gies’, supported by the Swiss National Science Fund. He has pub-lished, among others, ‘The Concept of Subject-Entrepreneur: Analysis of New Forms of Subjectivity from a Research Conducted in Cameroon’ (Nouvelles perspectives en sciences social-es, vol. 15, 2019); ‘Industry and Development in Came-roon: State Dynamics in a Context of “Emergence”’ (with Guive Khan-Mohammad, Critique internationale, vol. 89, 2020).

Alice Aterianus-Owanga

is an anthropologist and currently a post-doctoral fellow with the Swiss National Science Foundation. She has worked for years on urban music, poli-tics, and identity in Gabon and is presently conducting a project on the encounters occurring through the transmission of Senegalese dances in Eu-rope. She is also a director of documentary films and has published a series of papers and special issues on the anthropology of music and dance. Her book Le rap ça vient d’ici. Musiques, pouvoir et identité dans le Gabon contemporain received the prize Coup de coeur from the Music Academy Charles Cros in 2018.

Eric Burton

is Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Inns-bruck. He has published journal articles on the entangled global histories of socialism, development, and decolonisation in the Journal of Global History, Cold War History, and Journal für Historische Kommunismusforschung. His PhD dissertation was awarded the Walter Markov Prize 2019/2020 by the European Network in Universal and Global History and will be published as In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus. Die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der beiden deutschen Staaten in Tansania, 1961–1990 (De Gruyter, 2021).

Jean-Frédéric de Hasque

is a social anthropologist and documentary film director. His recent films and research focus on the processes of creating a higher social class on the African continent through associative networks. He analysed the expansion of the Lions Club in Benin (PhD 2017), the creation of the Pan-African continental branch of the Lions Clubs, and the evolution of the ‘white’ Lions Clubs in South Africa and Namibia (Post-doc 2021). Information on his films is available at: http://www.rienavoir.org, and they can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/user9478720.

Mayke Kaag

is an associate professor and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Her current research broadly focuses on African transnational relations, including land issues, global providers of Islamic education in Africa, and engagements with the diaspo-ra. At the African Studies Centre she is the convenor of a collaborative research group on ‘Africa in the World – Rethinking Afri-ca’s Global Connections’. She is also the chair of a collaborative research group on the same theme at the level of AEGIS (The European Association of African Studies).

Guive Khan-Mohammad

is a sociologist and currently working as a scientific adviser at the Rec-tor’s Office of the University of Geneva. In 2019, he was a senior SNSF researcher at the Global Studies Institute (GSI) of the University of Geneva and Visiting Scholar at the Centre of African Studies of the University of Edinburgh. He was also the coordinator of the research project ‘The Developmental State Strikes Back? The Rise of New Global Powers and African States’ Development Strategies’, supported by the Swiss National Science Fund. His research mainly focuses on African–Asian transnational connections, entrepreneurship (trade and industry), and state–business relations in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Fabien Nkot

is Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Ya-oundé II in Cameroon, where he also serves as Head of the Department of Political Science. He holds a PhD from Laval University (Québec-Canada). Among his publications are Les Usages Politiques du droit en Afrique: le cas du Cameroun (Bruylant, 2005) and Dictionnaire de la Politique au Cameroun (Presses de l’Université Laval, 2018).

Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Arriaga

has a multidisciplinary background with a focus on African Studies. Her first studies were in Hispanic literature and language, at the UNAM in Mexico, followed by a Bachelor in International Studies and a research Masters in African Studies at Leiden University, the Netherlands. Nourished by her personal and academic background, she has developed a passion for research on South–South cooperation from a decolonial perspective, as well as on processes of migration in relation to diversity. Currently, she is a PhD candidate at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she focuses on engaged scholarship and the societal inclusion of refugees in South Africa.

Ute Röschenthaler

is an extracurricular professor at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. She was a visiting fellow at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften Vienna in 2019 and at the African Studies Centre Leiden in 2020. She had research projects in the cluster of excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Or-ders’ and ‘Africa’s Asian Options’ (AFRASO) at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her recent publications include Mobility between Africa, Asia and Latin America (ed. with Alessandro Jedlowski, Zed Books, 2019), Cultural Entrepreneurship in Africa (ed. with Dorothea Schulz, Routledge, 2019) and Copyright Africa (ed. with Mamadou Diawara, Sean Kingston Publishing, 2019).

Alexandra Samokhvalova

is a PhD candidate at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her research interests lie in the field of higher education in maritime Southeast Asia, student migration, and education for sustainable development. She is currently working on researching the migration of African students to Malaysia. She was a member of the project ‘Africa’s Asian Op-tions’ (AFRASO) at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2015–2019.

Stefan Schmid

is a human geographer. Since 2002 he has been working as the scientific coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (ZIAF) at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. In this capacity he manages research projects on Africa–Asia relations and organises programmes promoting young career academics in Africa.

Sophia Thubauville

is a research fellow and head of library at the Frobenius Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She earned a PhD at Main University, for which she conducted extensive field research into gender issues among the Maale of southern Ethiopia. Her recent areas of research are Ethiopia and its dias-pora, and migration, anthropology of the future, and higher education. Cur-rently, she is editing the publication series ‘Southern Ethiopian Studies’ at the Frobenius Institute and conducting research on informal economic institutions in the Ethiopian diaspora.

Di Wu

is currently working as a departmental lecturer at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. His doctoral research was on the everyday life of Chinese migrants in Zambia, looking in particular at issues of labour disputes, intercultural communica-tion, moral interaction, and processes of community building. His thesis won the LSE Monograph Competition, and the manuscript, Affective Encounters, is published by Bloomsbury as part of the LSE Monograph on Social Anthropology Series. Following his doctoral research, Di Wu is now developing a new project on the spread of Chinese humanistic Buddhism in southern Africa.

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