Stichproben 35/2018
Articles
African Pentecostalism and Mediatised Self-Branding in Catholic (Flanders) Belgium
Joseph Bosco Bangura
Looking East/Going South: The Namibian-Chinese “All-Weather Friendship”
Henning Melber
The African Union, the African Youth Commission (AYC) and the Pan-African Youth Union (PYU): Sabotaging or bureaucratizing the youth?
Job Shipululo Amupanda
Thoughts on two late 18th Century Histories of Dahomey relating to the Anti-Slavery Debate
Arno Sonderegger
Authors
Professor of History at the Department of History at Iowa State University and Director of the African and African American Studies Program (AAAS). Fields of interest: African history and African American studies.
Contact: tadeleke@iastate.edu
Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Namibia. He is also a youth Activist with the Affirmative Repositioning Movement concerned with Social Justice in general and economic freedom in particular.
Contact: jamupanda@unam.na
affiliated as a part-time researcher at the (1) Department for Management of Science and Technology Development, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and the (2) Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Contatc: boscobangura@tdt.edu.vn
postdoctoral research associate in the project ‘Socialism goes global,’ University of Exeter. He specialises in the entangled histories of development, socialisms and anticolonial liberation struggles with a focus on Tanzania and the two German states. Previously, he was a Leibniz EEGA Science Campus guest scholar at Leipzig University and pre-doc researcher and lecturer at the University of Vienna in African Studies, Development Studies and History.
Contact: eric.burton@univie.ac.at, ericburton227@gmail.com
Trained as a political scientist, Ulf Engel is a Professor of “Politics in Africa” at the Institute of African Studies in Leipzig, Germany. He is co-director of the DFG Special Research Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa” (2011-2018) and director of the PhD Graduate School of the Collaborative Research Group 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” (2016-2019). Engel also is a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies at Addis Ababa University, a professor extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University and a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Studies (STIAS).
Contact: uengel@uni-leipzig.de
Director emeritus and Senior Advisor of the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Senior Research Associate at the Nordic Africa Institute, both in Uppsala/ Sweden. Also Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria and the Centre for Africa Studies at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Commonwealth Studies/School for Advanced Study at the University of London.
Contact: Henning.Melber@nai.uu.se
Senior Lecturer für Afrikanische Geschichte und Gesellschaften am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften der Universität Wien. Lehr- und Forschungsinteressen: Geschichte Afrikas, Globalgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Historische Rassismusforschung.
Kontakt: arno.sonderegger@univie.ac.at
Studium der Afrikawissenschaften (seit 2012) und Geschichtswissenschaften (2011-2016) an der Universität Wien. Studienassistent am Institut für Afrikawissenschaften und Studienrichtungsvertreter.
Kontakt: domi.spoerker@gmail.com