The Fellows 2016-2019
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Dr Halkano Abdi Wario
Research Project:
"Jihad for All? Religious Knowledge, Counter-Narrativity and De-Radicalisation Strategies in Kenya."
Contact:
Philosophy, History and Religion Department
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Egerton University
P. O. Box 536
20115 Egerton
KENYA
Email: hwario@egerton.ac.keShort CV:
Current status: Lecturer, Philosophy, History and Religion Department, Egerton University April 2009 - April 2012 PhD, University of Bayreuth, Department of Religion 2010 MPhil, Moi University, Kenya, Department of Religion 2003 B.Ed, Moi University, Kenya, Faculty of Education (Arts). First Class Honours
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Dr Plan Shenjere-Nyabezi
Research project:
"The Past in the Present: The Zimbabwe Culture and other Archaeological Heritage in north-western Zimbabwe."
Contact:
University of Zimbabwe, History Department
Archaeology Unit
P.O. Box MP167
Mt Pleasant - Harare
ZIMBABWE
Email: pshenjere2000yahoo.co.uk
short CV:
Current status: Senior Postdoctoral Fellow - Volkswagen Foundation's Knowledge for Tomorrow Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities in Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa 2012: Ph.D - Archaeology, University of Dar es Salaam 2006: MA - Archaeology, University of Dar es Salaam 2001: BA Honours in Archaeology, University of Zimbabwe 2000: BA General, University of Zimbabwe
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Dr Saudah Namyalo
Research Project:
"A comprehensive bilingual talking Luruuli/Lunyara-English dictionary with a descriptive basic grammar for language revitalisation and enhancement of mother-tongue based education."
Contact:
Makerere University
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of African Languages
School of Languages, Literature and Communication
P.O. Box 7062
Kampala
UGANDA
Email: snamyalochuss.mak.ac.ugshort CV:
2006–2010: PhD Linguistics 1997–1999: Post graduate diploma in translation and interpretation 1995–1998: MA (Arts) 1991-1994: BA/Education (Luganda & History)
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Dr Joseph Mujere
Research Project:
"Migration, Community Formation and Belonging in Informal Settlements around Rustenburg Platinum Mines, South Africa c.1994-2014."
Contact:
University of Zimbabwe
History Department
P.O. Box MP 167
Mt. Pleasant - Harare
ZIMBABWE
Email: josephmujereyahoo.co.ukshort CV:
Current position: Senior Lecturer in History, University of Zimbabwe Research Associate, Society Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand
2010 -2012: Graduate Tutor; School of History, Classics and Archaeology & Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh 2007-2008: Lecturer (temporary full-time) in History, History Department, University of Zimbabwe 2003-2007: Graduate Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Zimbabwe
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Dr Elinaza Mjema
Research Project:
"Investigating the Archaeology of Colonial Encounters on the Tanzanian Coast from 16th to 19th Centuries AD."
Contact:
University of Dar es Salaam
Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, UDSM
P.O. Box 35050
Dar es Salaam
TANZANIA
Email: emhifadhiyahoo.comshort CV:
Elinaza Mjema is a lecturer at the University of Dar es Salaam. He completed a Bachelor and Master degrees in archaeology at the University of Dar es Salaam in 2006 and 2008 respectively, and later a PhD in Archaeology from the Frankfurt University, Germany (2015). His PhD study focused on exploring change and continuity of ancient settlements on the western coast of Indian Ocean, through the analysis of ceramics, beads and fauna remains. Currently, Mjema’s plan is to investigate–using archaeological methods–the impacts of colonial encounters on the Tanzanian coast from 16th to 19th Centuries AD.
Research Areas:
Western Indian Ocean coastal archaeology; underwater archaeology; mortuary archaeology; archaeology of Stone Age; cultural heritage management; urban archaeology. -
Dr Edwinus Lyaya
Research Project:
"Metals and African Societies in Lake Tanganyika-Nyasa Countries: Exploring Iron and Copper Production and Human Choices in Selected Provinces of Zambia."
Contact:
University of Dar es Salaam
Department of Archaeology and Heritage
P.O. Box 35050
Dar es Salaam
TANZANIA
Email: edwinuslyahoo.comshort CV:
2009–2013: PhD (Archaeology), University College London (UCL) 2005–2007: MA (Archaeology), University of Dar es Salaam
2002-2005: BA (Hons.) (Archaeology and Geography), University of Dar es Salaam
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Dr Obvious Katsaura
Research Project: "Networked Religiocities: Transnational Urban Religious Flows in Africa."
Contact:
University of the Witwatersrand
Department of Sociology
Private Bag 3
Wits 2050
Johannesburg
SOUTH AFRICA
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Dr Zaheera Jinnah
Research Project:
"Shifting Families: Interrogating notions of "family' in a context of contemporary African migration and diverse urban spaces, using multi-sited case studies in South Africa, Morocco, and Germany"
Contact:
University of the Witwatersrand
African Centre for Migration & Society
P.O. Box 76 Witts 2050
SOUTH AFRICA
Email: zaheera.jinnahwits.ac.zashort CV:
Zaheera Jinnah holds a doctorate in anthropology and has a background in social work and development studies. Since 2009 she has been a researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits University, Johannesburg where she works in the area of labour and livelihoods and diaspora studies.
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Dr Meron Eresso
Title of research project:
"Movements on Hold? A Study of Ethiopian Female Transit Migrants in Djibouti."
Contact:
Rift Valley University
P.O. Box 56061
Addis Ababa
ETHIOPIALink to an Academia Interview with Dr Eresso
short CV:
Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, RVU
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Addis Ababa University, Center for Human Rights.
Guest Lecturer at University of Wake forest (WFU), North Carolina, USA.
Guest research fellow at National university of Singapore. Singapore.
Trainer for the Fredrick Ebert Sifting on Conflict Management and conflict resolution
Head of the Eastern African chapter of African Good Governance Network 12. 2013- 09.2015.
Lecturers at the Horn of Africa Courses, Rift Valley Institute, Lamu, Kenya. -
Dr Pastory Bushozi
Title of research project:
"Evolving human minds, behavior and subsistence during the Middle to Upper Pleistocene in Tanzania"
Contact:
University of Dar es Salaam
Department of Archaeology and Heritage
P. O. Box 35050
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
pbushozi@udsm.ac.tz
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Dr Wazi Apoh
Title of Research Project: "The Archeology of German Colonial Heritages in Ghana: Repackaging Shared Relics for Strategic Ghana-German Partnership in Development."
Contact:
Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies
University of Ghana
P.O. Box LG 3
Legon, Accra
GHANA
Email: wazitalgmail.com
