Stichproben Nr. 50/2026

Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and a Lecturer in the Department of Adult and Community Education at Makerere University, Uganda. He researches citizenship, everyday resistance, grassroots learning and association, pandemic precarity, and NGOs.
Contact: hkarembe@gmail.com

Head of the African and Middle Eastern Studies Library at the University of Vienna, Austria. She holds a Master´s degree (Mag. phil) in African Studies and a Master´s degree (MSc) in Library and Information Science from the University of Vienna. She is co-founder of the working group ‘Colonial Contexts in Libraries – Decolonize the Library!’ in 2021, which addresses the social developments arising from the Black Lives Matter movement in Austria.
Contact: birgit.athumanihango@univie.ac.at

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University. He holds a PhD in Sociology and has undertaken research projects in water and society, environment and population health. His recent publications include “Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Small Towns in Rural-urban Transition Zones: The Case of Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality, Uganda” and “Caught in the Middle? Access to water in the rural to urban transformation of Bushenyi-Ishaka municipality, Uganda”.
Contact: dwbatega@gmail.com

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Graz and Co-Coordinator of a module series on 'Introduction to African Studies' at treffpunkt sprachen − Zentrum für Sprache, Plurilingualismus und Fachdidaktik. Her research focuses primarily on language description and comparison, but also on the history of the discipline and methodology. Her geographical focus is on Mexico, East Africa, Senegal and Sierra Leone. She also has many years' experience as a project manager at the Afro-Asian Institute in Graz and is a project collaborator at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna. Throughout her work, she encounters persistent colonial power structures, epistemic violence and the failure to recognise existing bodies of knowledge. Raising awareness of these issues and, consequently, establishing fairer research practices are central concerns of her work.
Contact: jennifer.brunner@uni-graz.at

PhD-candidate in Anthropology at Adelaide University, where his doctoral research investigates the intersections of mobility, citizenship, and precarity. Kettler’s ethnographic work is grounded in the Global South, with extensive fieldwork experience in Dar es Salaam, Adelaide, and currently Bandung, Indonesia.
Contact: samuel.kettler@adelaide.edu.au

PhD-student at the University of Vienna within the Austrian Science funded research project ‘Poetics of Relational and Intersectional Identities: African-Diasporic Writers in Austria’, led by Professor Rémi Armand Tchokothe. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature with an additional degree in Journalism and Communication studies from the University of Vienna. Her research centers on African-diasporic and underrepresented literary voices, aiming to highlight their aesthetic, cultural and political significance. She is a co-creator of the podcast ‚(Re)membering Rwanda. Conversations About Our Shared History’, a students’ project in cooperation with Radio Orange (2021).
Contact: laura.kisser@univie.ac.at

Lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda. Her academic work primarily focuses on land conflicts and rural livelihoods in Uganda. She is currently a researcher on a project titled "Situated Choices, Student Identities, and Agencies for University Education in Uganda," a research project focusing on students’ choices in the Humanities and Social Sciences disciplines. She has worked on a couple of projects in Uganda that aim at building community resilience.
Contact: constance.mudondo@mak.ac.ug

Research Officer at the Department of Research Services of the Parliament of Uganda. He is currently engaged in legislative research where he supports evidence-based legislation through committee briefs, routine field and desk-based studies. His research is erected on multiple qualifications in Development studies (Gulu University), MA Rural Development (Makerere University), MSc. International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies (the LSE), PhD Sociology (Makerere University) and PhD in Social Work from the University of Gothenburg. He is also currently involved in critical scholarship in areas of local knowledge, research ethics and youth livelihood research.
Contact: shakassims@yahoo.com

Ethnographer specializing in contemporary urbanism along the western Indian Ocean coast, particularly focusing on East Africa. His research delves into themes of coloniality, consumption and discarding, the debris of late capitalism, repairing and recycling economies, and the anthropology of money.
Contact: ntapanta@cas.au.dk

Professor of Comparative Literature with a Focus on African Literatures at the University of Vienna and Associate Lecturer at the Université de Dembéni, Mayotte. He is a researcher with a keen interest in outreach activities and has worked on Swahili, Wolof and Comorian literatures and published the open access monograph: « Entré en tant que cousin, sorti en tant que gendarme ». Visa Balladur, Kwassa Kwassa, (Im)mobilité et Géopoét(h)ique relationnelle aux Comores (2023). He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Austrian Science funded research project ‘Poetics of Relational and Intersectional Identities: African-Diasporic Writers in Austria’.
Contact: remi.tchokothe@univie.ac.at

Senior Lecturer at the Department of African Studies at the University of Vienna, a lecturer at the University of Graz (Austria), and has also taught at the Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Mayotte. Her latest book project combines anthropological linguistics, social biographies and history to investigate the nostalgia of former mineworkers in Lubumbashi (DR Congo). She is developing the "shared-authority approach" to rethink African studies. Other research interests include sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and issues of language and power (mis)use, language and violence, Autor*innen/ Authors including research methods, Swahili language and literature, Swahili varieties and transnational multilingual language use.
Contact: daniela.waldburger@univie.ac.at

Senior Researcher in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where he is currently leader of a DFG-funded project on customary political systems in the Comoros, and Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. He has worked on various aspects of social practice in the Comoro Islands and developed the theory of mimesis in an analysis of Ngazidja society, published as ‘Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World’ (2010). He has also carried out long term, multi-sited fieldwork on mobilities and identities among the Hadrami communities of the western Indian Ocean littoral. His other publications include ‘Islands in a Cosmopolitan Sea: A History of the Comoros’ (2019).
Contact: walkeria@uni-mainz.de