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Expressive Culture and Belief Systems

Gallous Asong Atabongwoung

Gallous Atabongwoung holds a PhD in Anthropology Development Studies from University of Pretoria. He was a research assistant at Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute, University of South Africa (UNISA), Visiting Scholar at Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. His research interests include; Anthropology and Development Studies, African and European Cultural Relations, International Migration, Xenophobia, Informal […]

Zainab Osman Mahgoub Gaafar

Zainab Gaafar is an architect and project manager specialising in research and design. She is the founder of Studio Urban, a Khartoum-based research studio that explores urban studies at the intersection of culture and knowledge accessibility. The studio produces multimedia content and integrates community engagement tools into its research methodologies. In recent years, Zainab has […]

Amanda Nkeramihigo

Amanda Nkeramihigo is a scholar and theorist whose work bridges historical and critical psychology, Afrofuturism, and decolonial frameworks to explore Black subjectivity, epistemic justice, and liberation. She will be continuing at the PhD level at York University, in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies in Psychology in the summer of 2026. Amanda’s research interrogates the […]

Dee Marksman-Phillpotts

Dee Markman-Phillpotts (they/them) is a Black, trans, non-binary educator, researcher, and community advocate whose work centers Black trans life, collective care, and liberatory futures. A PhD student with a background in social work and sexuality studies, their research examines how intersecting systems of anti-Black racism, gender-based violence, queer and transphobia, and poverty shape the lived […]

Boniface Ifeanyi Orji

Dr. Orji Boniface Ifeanyi, is a Lecturer in the Department of History and International Studies at the Babcock University, Nigeria. His scholarship sits at the crossroads of Migration history, economic history, cultural history, and development history. His research transcends boundaries and seamlessly moves between multiple fields in humanities and social sciences.

Oni Foluso Olaitan

ONI Foluso Olaitan holds a Bachelors Degree in History and International Studies from University of Ilorin and a Masters Degree in History from University of Ibadan, Oyo State. Her Research interest spans across Environmental History, Agricultural History, and Developmental Studies. She has successfully conducted research on the origin and development of Horticultural Production in Nigeria […]

Oluwatosin John Ibitoye

Oluwatosin John IBITOYE is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in Ethnomusicology (Music and Digital Culture) at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He currently lectures at the Department of Performing Arts and Film Studies, Kwara State University, Nigeria, and a Visiting Faculty at IAUSS, China. His research focuses on ethnomusicology, digital culture/humanities, music and gender studies, performance […]

Fehintola Tunbosun Akinwale

Akinwale, Fehintola Tunbosun, Ph.D was born about 4 decades ago. She holds a Doctoral Degree in History, from the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan in 2022. M. A History from the department in 2014 and, a Bachelor Degree in History Education, from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2006. She teaches at the […]

Lawrence Okoronkwo Udensi

UDENSI Lawrence Okoronkwo is a Nigerian Sociologist with interest in Rural Sociology and Community Development. His research and teaching perspective focuses on applying sustainable development goals in addressing global environmental challenges especially among rural populations within Sub Saharan Africa. He currently lectures in the Department of Sociology, Federal University of Kashere, Nigeria.

Rose Ukeci Uwodha

Rose Ukeci Uwodha is a PhD candidate in sociology and anthropology at the University of Mons (Belgium). Her research focuses on political ecology, extractivism, and community resistance in gold-mining territories in the Ituri and Haut-Uele regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative methods, she examines vernacular knowledge, local imaginaries, […]