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Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa

Africa Department PhD Students

Anita Adam
Anita Adam

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

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

Images of the Italian occupation in contemporary Ethiopian literature


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

Lameen Souag
Lameen Souag

Grammatical Contact in the Sahara: Arabic, Berber, and Songhay in Tabelbala and Siwa


Danielle Faye Tran
Danielle Faye Tran

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