Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Visiting Scholars

  • 1. Oct - 30. Nov 2024
Ana Carolina Coppola de Miranda

PhD student, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France

Project member of the Trilateral Research Linkage Group:
Cross-Connections between Nigeria and Négritude in the Decades of Decolonization - Exploring and Translating the Archives of Orphée noir – Schwarzer Orpheus – Black Orpheus

 

  • 1 July - 31 Aug. 2024
Prof. Dr. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Professor of Africana Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

PI in the Trilateral Research Linkage Group
Cross-Connections between Nigeria and Négritude in the Decades of Decolonization - Exploring and Translating the Archives of Orphée noir – Schwarzer Orpheus – Black Orpheus

 

  • 1 July - 31 Aug. 2024
Dr. Charles Akinsete

Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Project member of the Trilateral Research Linkage Group
Cross-Connections between Nigeria and Négritude in the Decades of Decolonization - Exploring and Translating the Archives of Orphée noir – Schwarzer Orpheus – Black Orpheus

 

  • 1 July - 31 Aug. 2024
Prof. Dr. Sylvère Mbondobari

Professor of French-speaking African literature; Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France

PI in the Trilateral Research Linkage Group
Cross-Connections between Nigeria and Négritude in the Decades of Decolonization - Exploring and Translating the Archives of Orphée noir – Schwarzer Orpheus – Black Orpheus

 

  • 1. July - 30 Sept. 2024
Prof. Dr. Ernst Van der Wal

Associate Professor in Visual Studies, Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

  • 1 April - 30 Sept. 2024
Prof. Dr. Godwin W. Siundu

Associate Professor at the Department of Literature at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

am IAAW: DAAD Visiting Professorship "African Diaspora Studies"

  • Aug. 2023 - Jul. 2024
Prof. Dr. Jeff Good

Professor of Linguistics (University of Buffalo, NY, USA)

Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • Sept. 2023 - Dez. 2023
Prof. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • Sept. 2023 - Febr. 2024
Prof. James Yékú

Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies (University of Kansas, USA)

Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • April 2023 - März 2024
Prof. Félix Ayoh'OMIDIRE

Professor of Brazilian and Afro-Latin-American Studies (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria)

DAAD-Gastprofessur "African Diaspora Studies"

  • Mai 2023 - Aug. 2026
Prof. Chétima Melchisedek

Professor of African History at the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM)

"A History of Violence: Boko Haram, Slavery and Kidnapping in the Lake Chad Basin"

Fellowship Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
 
 
  • Jan. 2023 - June 2024
Dr. Jesus Olguin Martinez

Ph.D. in Linguistics 

University of California, Santa Barbara

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation

Research Topic: COMPLEX SENTENCES IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES

 
  • 2.-19.11.2022
Prof. Dr. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Professor of English and Africana Studies

University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria

Förderung durch den BCGE Flexible Travel Funds (BUA)

 
  • 4.9.-04.12.2022
Prof. Dr. Félix Ayoh'Omidire

Professor of Brazilian and Afro-Latin-American Studies

Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria

Stipendiat der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

 
  • Jul. 2022 -
    June 2023
Prof. Dr. Mo Shabangu

Assistent Professor of English

Colby College, Waterville, USA

 
  • Okt. 2022 -
    Sept. 2026
Esther Okumu

doctoral student

scholarship holder of the DAAD

Research topic: "Reconfiguring colonial archives: On historical trauma and collective healing in East Africa"

 
  • Okt. 2021 -
    Sept. 2025
Edna Dorine Olondo

doctoral student

scholarship holder of the DAAD

Forschungsthema: JOURNEY TOWARDS QUEER AGENCY: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COLLECTIVE LIFE WRITING IN KENYA, NIGERIA AND SOUTH AFRICA

 
  • Jun. 2021 - Sept. 2021

Dr. Jean Paul Ngoboka - Short CV

Lecture - School of Education

University of Rwanda 

TWAS-DFG Cooperative Visits Programme for scientists from sub-Sahara Africa

Forschungsthema: "Ideophones/Onomatopoeia in Kinyarwanda"

Short report

 

 
  • Aug. 2020 - Sept. 2021

Prof. Dr. Kofi Yakpo

Associate Professor - School of Humanity (Linguistics), Faculty of Arts 

The University of Hongkong 

Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler

 

 
  • Jun. 2019 – Mai 2022

Zvinashe Mamvura

Senior Research Fellow - African Languages Research Institute 

University of Zimbabwe

Forschungsthema: "Collective Memory in Zimbabwe: A Toponomastic Perspective"

 

 
  • Aug. – Dec. 2019

Damgale Waldja

Since 2015 Assistant lecturer and doctoral student at the

Université de Lomé

Research topic: "das Französieren in Togo von 1914 bis 1975"

 

 
  • Aug. – Dec. 2019

Prof. Dotsé Gilbert Yigbe

Université de Lomé

Research topic: "Togo in den deutsch-französischen Beziehungen in der 1940er, 1950er und 1960er Jahren"

 

 
  • Jul. – Dec. 2019

Augustine Emela

Lecturer at the Department of English and Literary Studies - Imo State University, Owerri

Research topic: " Femi Osofisan’s appropriation and conflation of Brechtian aesthetics and elements of traditional African theatre in his dramaturgy in the renowned African playwright’s bid to achieve artistic beauty and advance his vision of change for the establishment of a just society"

 

 
  • Jul. – Dec. 2019

Prof. Isidore Diala

Lecturer of African literature

at Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria

Research topic: "The impact of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (LNLG) Literature Prize"

 

 
  • Jul. – Dec. 2019

Prof. Shumirai Nyota

AvH-Stipendiatin,

Professor of Linguistics at Great Zimbabwe

University of Zimbabwe 

Research topic: "How to do things with Shona Parallel Proverbs: A Speech Act Theory Analysis of Shona Postproverbials"

 

 
  • Jul. – Aug. 2019

Dr. Aliou Pouye

Lecturer at the Département de Langues et

Civilisations Germaniques of Philosophical

faculty

Research topic: "Die Literatur der DDR nach der Wende 1989 und Die Frage der Identität von Kindern afrodeutscher Paare in der deutschsprachigen Literatur"

 

 
  • Jun. – Aug. 2019

Dr. Joseph Eke

Lecturer at the Department of German Studies,

Department of European Studies at the

University of Ibandan in Ibandan, Nigeria

Research topic: "Representation of African Cultural-Knowledge and Identity in Versions of German Translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart"

 

 
  • May – Aug. 2019

Prof. Brahima Camara

Professor at the Universté des Lettres et des

Sciences Humaines de Bamako

Research topic: "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" und "Sara", die literarische Verarbeitung zweier Mythen. Eine interkulturelle Untersuchung

 

 
  • May 2019

Dr. Charles Akinsete

Research topic: will follow soon

 

 
  • May 2019

Prof. Remi Raji-Oyelade

Research topic: will follow soon

 

 
  • May – Jul. 2019

Prof. Peter Wasamba

Professor of African Literature

at the University of Nairobi

Research topic: "An Afrocentric Gaze at Human Rights Jurisprudence in Africa through Literature"

 

 

  • May – Jul. 2019

Stephen Temitope David

Lisa Maskell PhD candidate

at Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Research topic: "Lack of Return in Nigeria-Biafra Civil War Literature"

 

 
  • Oct. 2018 –
    Sep. 2021

Boneace Chagara

DAAD-candidate

Research topic: "Negotiating Postcoloniality: 'Subjectivity' in Contemporary Kenyan Film"

 

 
  • Oct. – Dec. 2018

Dr. Abba Andrew Abba

research fellow on DAAD scholarship

Head of Department at the Department of

English and Literary Studies in Edwin Clark

University, Kiagbodo, Delta State, Nigeria

Research topic: "Resisting Subalternity: Remediating Resistance Struggles in the Trenches of Biafra War Narratives"

 

 
  • Sep. – Dec. 2018

Dr. Aliou Pouye

Lecturer at the Département de Langues et

Civilisations Germaniques of Philosophical

faculty

Research topic: "Deutsch-afrikanische Beziehungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Kulturbeziehungen sowie zum Thema Afrikaner(innen) in der Migrationsdebatte in Deutschland"

 

 
  • Oct. 2015 – Dez. 2019

Obala Musumba

DAAD-fellow

Research topic: "'Emergents' of Violence: Nuruddin Farah's representations and functions of the child character in the conflict zone"

 

 
  • May – Jul. 2018

Prof. Dr. André Motingea Mangulu

Senior Lecture/Examinations Officer,

National Pedagogical University, Kinshasa

Research topic: "Languages of the Congolese Central Basin"

 

 
  • Jun. – Jul. 2018

Dr. Isaac Owusu-Mensah

Senior Lecture/Examinations Officer,

Department of Political Science,

University of Ghana

Research topic: "Wahlkampf in Ghana"

 

 
  • Nov. 2017 – Apr. 2018

Dr. Ernst van der Wal

Department of Visual Studies,

University of Stellenbosch

Research topic: "The Framing of Sexual and/or Gender Variance: A German/South African Exchange" (AvH)

 

 
  • March 2017

Dr. Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer

Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien,

Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Research topic: "Genus in Adamawa-Sprachen"

 

 
  • June 2017

Dr. Wazi Apoh

Head of Department of Archaeology and H. S Senior Lecture,

Department of Archaeology & heritage Studies,

University of Ghana

Research topic: "Provenance Research", dazu eine LV und Vortrag im Afrikakolloquium am 7.6.

 

 
  • Jul. – Aug. 2017

Dr. Kayode Ogunfolabi

Department of English,

University of Ile Ife

Research topic: "The Other Stories: Trauma, Silence, and Testimony in Recent Nigerian Women's Fiction"(DAAD)

 

 
  • Sep. – Oct. 2017

Prof. Dr. Babatunde Ayeleru

Department of Modern Languages,

University of Ibadan

Research topic: "Oro Cult and Gender Equity in Yorubaland" (DAAD)

 

 
  • Sep. – Oct. 2017

Dr. Seynabou Ndiaye

University of Dakar

Research topic: "Forschung im Erica de Bary-Archiv"

 

 
  • Sep. – Dez. 2017

Dr. Coffi Sambieni

Université d’Abomey-Calavi

Research topic: "Grammatische Beschreibung des Biali"

 

 
  • July 2017

Dr. Miriam Maranga-Musonye

Department of Literature,

University of Nairobi

Research topic: "Labour & Leisure in Artistic Production & Performance"

 

 
  • October 2017

Harald Hammarström

Department of Linguistics and Philology,

University of Uppsala

Research topic: "Databased research on gender in Africa"

 

 
  • November 2017

Dr. Francesca Di Garbo

Department of Linguistics,

University of Stockholm

Research topic: "Bantu gender marking systems"

 

 
  • November 2017

Dr. Nedine Moonsamy

English Language and Literature Department,

University of Pretoria

Research topic: "African Science-Fiction und Futurism"

 

 
  • November 2017

Dr. Annemarie Verkerk

Department of Language and Cultural Revolution,

Max Planck Institute for Human History Jena

Research topic: "Bantu gender marking systems"

 

 
  • November 2017

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Wälchli

Department of Linguistics,

University of Stockholm

Research topic: "Foundations of grammatical gender"

 

 
  • Nov. – Dez. 2017

Dr. Halkano Abdi Wario

Department of Philosophy, History and Religion,

Egerton University

Research topic: "Jihad for All? Religious Knowledge, Counter-Narrativity and De-Radicalisation Strategies in Kenya"

 

 
  • Mar – Sep. 2016

Dr. Gbandé Daré

Université de Lomé

Research topic: "Intermedialität bei S.A. Zinsou und EL Loko"

 

 
  • Apr. – Dec. 2016

Dr. Mohammad Shabangu

University of Stellenbosch

Research topic: "The Double Bind of African Migrant Writing"

 

 
  • Jun.– Aug. 2016

Prof. Dr. Félix Ayoh’Omidire

Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies,

Obafemi Awolowo University

Research topic: "The Process of Re-Yorubanization of Afro-Latin Cultural and Religious Worldviews, in Haiti, Colombia and Santo Domingo"

 

 
  • Jul. – Sep. 2016

Prof. Dr. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Department of English,

University of Ibadan

Research topic: "Towards a Developmental Database of Pan-African Postverbials"

 

 
  • September 2016

Dr. Seynabou Ndiaye

Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar

Research topic: "Erabeitung eines Archikonzepts für den Nachlass von Erica de Bary"

 

 
  • Sep. – Okt. 2016

Dr. Dotsé Yigbe

Université de Lomé

Research topic: "Zwischen kirchlicher Autonomie und politischen Trotz: Die Entwicklung einer selbständigen envangelischen Ewe-Kirche in Togo nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg"

 

 
  • May – Jun. 2015

Dr. Lillian Osaki

Department of Literature,

University of Dar-es-Salaam

Cooperation in research and teaching

 

 
  • Jun. – Aug. 2015

Prof. Dr. Isaac Bazié

Université du Québec à Montréal

Research topic: "Violence(s) et littérature"

 

 
  • July 2015

Charles Akinsete

University of Ibadan

Research topic: "Nigerian Poetry of the Third Generation/African and African-American Postmodernism"

 

 
  • July 2015

Prof. Dr. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade

Department of English,

University of Ibadan

Research topic: "Nigerian Poetry of the Third Generation/African and African-American Postmodernism"

 

 
  • Aug. – Sep. 2015

Dr. Dotsé Gilbert Yigbé

Université de Lomé

Research topic: "Medienwechsel/Mission in Togo"

 

 
  • Nov. – Dec. 2015

Prof. Dr. Sule E. Egya

Ibrahim Babangida University

Research topic: "Ecocriticism in African Literatures"

 

 
  • Feb. – Apr. 2013

Dr. Dotsé Gilbert Yigbé

Department of German Studies,

Université de Lomé

 

 
  • May – Jul. 2013

Dr. Ebenezer Adedji Omoteso

 
  • Jul. – Sept. 2013

Dr. Shumirai Nyota

Great Zimbabwe University

Research topic: "Minority languages of Zimbabwe"

 

 
  • Since Sep. 2013

Daiana Dossantos Nascimiento

Universidad de Santiago de Chile

 

 
  • Since Oct. 2013

Prof. Helon Habila

George Mason University