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Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa

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
Anita Adam

Benadiri People of Somalia, with Particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu

Kate Bolgar Smith
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Soundtracks of the City: Listening to Film Music of the African Diaspora in Paris and London


Ying Cheng
Ying CHENG

The Dynamics of Theatre Practice in the ‘African’ Public Sphere: A Comparative Study of Nigerian and South African Drama since the 1970s

David Dobrovoda
David Dobrovoda

Czechoslovak-African Political Relations in the 20th Century


Benedetta Lanfranchi
Benedetta Lanfranchi

A Revolution in Justice: Judgment Theory in African Philosophy

Sara Marzagora
Sara Marzagora

Theorizing an "acolonial modernity". The 1896 battle of Adwa and 1936-1941 Italian occupation in Ethiopian literature and political philosophy.


Yoseph Mengistu
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The Christological Implications of the Pneumatology of Cyril of Alexandria in Orthodox Ethiopia (1607-1878)

Caroline Mose
Caroline Mose

Kenyan Hiphop: Interrogating Socio-Political Interventions of Popular Youth Culture in Nairobi

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Peter Nichols
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A Morpho-semantic Analysis of the Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati

Charles Pigott
Charles Pigott

Voices of the Mountains: Language and Cultural Identity in Andean Songs


Jarmo Pikkujamsa
Jarmo Pikkujamsa

The Search for Resolution in the Tensions of Senegalese Life: Francophone African writing with special reference to the novels of Ken Bugul

Katriina Ranne
Katriina Ranne

The Image of Water in the Poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi


Rashi Rohatgi
Rashi Rohatgi

Fighting Cane and Canon: Reading Abhimanyu Unnuth's Hindi Poetry in and outside of Literary Mauritius

Aïsha Schmitt
Aisha Schmitt

Beyond Praising the Prophet: Making New Meanings in Zanzibari Qasida


Anne Schumann
Anne Schumann

Danse philosophique! The Social and Political Dynamics of Zouglou Music in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 1990-2008

Danielle Faye Tran
Danielle Faye Tran

Post-TRC Traumatic Narratives: South Africa’s Literary Recovery