Africa Department PhD Students
Recently Awarded PhDs
- Lizzy Attree - The Literary Response to HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1990–2005
- Mark Brogden - The Culture of Exploration: British Expeditions to Northern Nigeria 1822–1827
- Zoë Norridge - Perceptions of Pain: Narratives of Hurt and Healing in Contemporary African Literature
- Betty Sibongile Dlamini - Women and Theatre for Development in Swaziland
Anita Adam
Benadiri People of Somalia, with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu
- Email: anitasadam1@yahoo.co.uk
Kate Bolgar Smith
Soundtracks of the City: Listening to Film Music of the African Diaspora in Paris and London
- Email: kateisobell@gmail.com
Ying Cheng
The Dynamics of Theatre Practice in the ‘African’ Public Sphere: A Comparative Study of Nigerian and South African Drama since the 1970s
- Email: 566963@soas.ac.uk
David Dobrovoda
Czechoslovak-African Political Relations in the 20th Century
- Email: dobrovoda@gmail.com
Sara Marzagora
Theorizing an "acolonial modernity". The 1896 battle of Adwa and 1936-1941 Italian occupation in Ethiopian literature and political philosophy.
- Email: sara.marzagora@soas.ac.uk
Yoseph Mengistu
The Christological Implications of the Pneumatology of Cyril of Alexandria in Orthodox Ethiopia (1607-1878)
- Email: ym6@soas.ac.uk
Caroline Mose
Kenyan Hiphop: Interrogating Socio-Political Interventions of Popular Youth Culture in Nairobi
Peter Nichols
A Morpho-semantic Analysis of the Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati
- Email: 180481@soas.ac.uk
Charles Pigott
Voices of the Mountains: Language and Cultural Identity in Andean Songs
- Email: 234454@soas.ac.uk
Jarmo Pikkujamsa
The Search for Resolution in the Tensions of Senegalese Life: Francophone African writing with special reference to the novels of Ken Bugul
- Email: 171012@soas.ac.uk
Rashi Rohatgi
Fighting Cane and Canon: Reading Abhimanyu Unnuth's Hindi Poetry in and outside of Literary Mauritius
- Email: rashi@soas.ac.uk
Aïsha Schmitt
Beyond Praising the Prophet: Making New Meanings in Zanzibari Qasida
- Email: aishaschm@soas.ac.uk
Anne Schumann
Danse philosophique! The Social and Political Dynamics of Zouglou Music in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 1990-2008
- Email: a.schumann@soas.ac.uk
Danielle Faye Tran
Post-TRC Traumatic Narratives: South Africa’s Literary Recovery
- Email: df_tran@soas.ac.uk
