Postgraduate Student Work in Progress
Samer Abdelnour, LSE
Postwar peace-building, development, and humanitarian interventions through the lenses of institutional theory and social enterprise
Supervisors: Harry Barkema (LSE) and Jannis Kallinikos (LSE)
Alexandre Abreu, SOAS
International Migration and Development: a Political Economy Approach with Reference to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
Supervisor: Deborah Johnston (SOAS), Jane Harrigan (SOAS)
Nimo–Ilhan Ali, SOAS
Political Economy of Higher Education and Graduate Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Higher Education Expansion in Somaliland (2000-2010)
Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS)
Alicia Altorfer-Ong, LSE
Independence, Dependence and Third World Solidarity: Sino-Tanzanian Relations from 1964-1975
Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE), Antony Best (LSE)
Clementina Amankwaah, UCL
Continuity and Change in the making of Elites: University Students in Post War Sierra Leone
Supervisor: Barrie Sharpe (UCL)
Alexandra Antohin, UCL
An Ethnography of Orthodox Christianity and Religious Pluralism in Wollo, Ethiopia
Supervisor: Charles Stewart (UCL)
Ruben Andersson, LSE
On the road – the making of migrants in Europe’s African borderlands (ESRC funded)
Supervisor: Deborah James, LSE
Julie Soleil Archambault, SOAS
Cruising through uncertainty: Mobile phone practices, occulted economies and the politics of respect in Southern Mozambique
Supervisors: Harry West (SOAS), J D Y Peel (SOAS)
Abiola Atinuke Akiyode-Afolabi, SOAS
Gender and Armed Conflict in Africa: Sierra Leone and Liberia
Supervisors: Fareda Banda (SOAS), Mashood Baderin (SOAS), Peter Muchlinski (SOAS)
Dominik Balthasar (Helling), LSE
War, Nationalism and State Trajectories in Somalia and Somaliland – Understanding State-(Un)Making as Processes of Institutional and Socio-Cognitive (De)Standardization
Supervisor: James Putzel (LSE) and Tobias Bebiel (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Rhona Barr, LSE
The possible role that payments for environmental services could play in rural coastal marine conservation and development, and the feasibility of applying this economic tool to marine settings (focus on Southern Tanzania).
Jonathan Bashi R., SOAS
Unification of business laws in Africa: conciliation of common law and civil law through the OHADA Common Court of Justice and Arbitration.
Supervisor: Emilia Onyema (SOAS)
Neha Batura, SOAS
Long-Term Impact of Child Malnutrition on Adulthood: Evidence from Rural Tanzania
Supervisor: Deborah Johnston (SOAS)
Claire Bedelian, UCL
Community conservation in the Maasai Mara in Kenya
Supervisor: Katherine Homewood (UCL)
Goetz Bechtolsheimer, LSE
The United States' Intervention in the Congo and the Rise of Mobutu from 1964 to 1967
Supervisor: Odd Arne Westad (LSE)
Mr Pritish Behuria, SOAS
Thesis title: Becoming A Strong State: Kagame’s Rwanda Develops After 1994
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS)
Stefano Biagetti, UCL
Enthoarchaeology of Pastoralism in the Acacus Mts (south-western Fezzan, Libya): A Case Study of Kel Tadrart Lineage
Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL)
Gary Blank, LSE
British Foreign Policy and the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970)
Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE)
Mike Brass, UCL
The archaeology of social organisation at Jebel Moya: 5th to 1st millennium BC
Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL)
Peter Brett, SOAS
The Judicialisation of Politics: some African examples
Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS)
Brandon Broll, Birkbeck College
History of the Civil Rights League in South Africa (1948-1994)
Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College)
Andrew Brooks, Royal Holloway
Riches from Rags or Persistent Poverty? The Transnational Used Clothing Trade in Mozambique (ESRC 1+3; Submission due Sept 2011)
Supervisor: David Simon (Royal Holloway)
Paula Callus, SOAS
Sub-Saharan African animation
Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore (SOAS)
Marisa Candotti, SOAS
Cotton Growing and Textile Production in Northern Nigeria: from Caliphate to Protectorate c. 1804-1914
Supervisor: John Parker (SOAS)
Christine Carter, UCL
Conservation and development; the search for synergies around an MPA on the coast of Kenya
Supervisor: Katherine Homewood (UCL)
Andre Chapatte, SOAS
'Sini be Allah bolo' (Tomorrow is in God's hands): destinies, blessing practices, and popular piety or the making of personal goals and ambitions among Muslims in the town of Bougouni in Southwest Mali."(working title)
Supervisor: Magnus Marsden (SOAS), Richard Fardon (SOAS)
Emmanuel A. Codjoe, SOAS
Foreign Direct Investment and Export Performance in Ghana; Impacts and Processes
Supervisor: Dr Deborah Johnston (SOAS), Professor Jane Harrigan (SOAS)
Felix Conteh, SOAS
Governance Reforms in Sierra Leone: An Assessment of the Political and Social Impact of Decentralization 2004-2010
Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS)
Lucy Corkin, SOAS
Uncovering Agency: China’s Role as a Financier in Angola’s Reconstruction Programme
Supervisor: Dr Julia C Strauss (SOAS)
Julie Crooks, SOAS
Lisk-Carew and photography in Sierra Leone: Black Modernities
Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore (SOAS)
Gregory Deacon, SOAS
The socio-economic role of Pentecostal Churches in Kibera, Nairobi
Supervisor: Paul Gifford (SOAS)
Kevin Deane, SOAS
Assessing the role of structural drivers in the HIV/AIDS pandemic: a Tanzanian case study of the link between socio-economic indicators and prevalence patterns
Supervisor: Deborah Johnston (SOAS)
Margarita Dimova, SOAS
Underground as Overground: The Heroin Economy in Kenya
Supervisors: Phil Clark (SOAS), Laleh Khalili (SOAS)
David Dobrovoda, SOAS
Czechoslovak-African Political Relations in the 20th Century
Supervisor: Alena Rettová, SOAS
Sirio Canos Donnay, UCL
Imperial Landscapes of Ancient Mali: Settlement patterns and social organisation
Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL)
Sarah Duff, Birkbeck College
Ways in which ideas about childhood changed as a result of the Dutch Reformed Church's evangelical movement in the Cape Colony between 1860 and 1902
Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College)
Dariusz Dziewanski, SOAS
Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa
Supervisor: Dr Zoe marriage (SOAS), Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS), Prof. Jonathan Goodhand (SOAS)
James Esson, UCL
From men to boys: football, masculinities and Ghanaian labour migration
Edith Eyo, SOAS
Contemporary Nigerian artists in London
Supervisor: Charles Gore, SOAS
Alice Evans, LSE
Exploring the factors that incentivise poor men and women in Zambia to challenge - or comply with - gender hierarchies
Supervisor: Diane Perrons (LSE)
Giulia Ferrari, LSE
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS and gender into microfinance-based poverty alleviation programmes - an economic evaluation
Erin Freas-Smith, SOAS
Domestic Work in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, A Focus on Durban and Ixopo From 1920-1960
Supervisor: Professor Shula Marks (SOAS), Dr Wayne Dooling (SOAS)
Alex Free, LSE
ICTs, the internet and Africa: Meeting social, political or economic needs?
Supervisor: Robin Mansell (LSE)
Emily Freeman, LSE
Older Adults' Experiences of Ageing and HIV Infection in Rural Malawi
Supervisor: Ernestina Coast (LSE), Rebecca Sear (LSE), Tiziana Leone (LSE)
Takahiro Fukunishi, SOAS
Possibility of Labour-Intensive Industry in Africa: Comparison of the garment industry with Asian low income countries (Working Title)
Supervisor: Machiko Nissanke (SOAS), Sonali Deraniyagala (SOAS)
Ole Martin Gaasholt, SOAS
Associating with an Overstretched State: Politics in Tuareg-dominated Malian Gourma
Supervisor: Richard Fardon (SOAS)
Nikolas Gestrich, UCL
Tongo Maare Diabal: A Social Archaeology of Settlement in the Gourma Region of Mali, c.AD 800 – 1200
Supervisor: Kevin MacDonald (UCL)
Hannah Gibson, SOAS
Language change and contact in Northern Tanzania
Supervisor: Lutz Maretn (SOAS)
Jonas Gjersø, LSE
Benevolent Imperialism? Abolition and Legitimate Trade as Principal Elements of British Policy in East Africa 1856-1902
Supervisor: Joanna Lewis (LSE)
Jacopo Gnisci, SOAS
The Passion of Christ in Ethiopian Iconography
Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS)
Tom Goodfellow, LSE
State effectiveness and the politics of urban development in East Africa
Supervisor: James Putzel (LSE) and Jo Beall (LSE)
Hazel Gray, SOAS
The Political Economy of Primitive Accumulation and the State in Tanzania and Vietnam under Liberalisation
Supervisor: Mushtaq Khan (SOAS)
Abdullai Haroon, SOAS
Ghanaian Political Thought on the Governance of the Formal State and that of Chieftaincy: with special reference to Dispute, Conflict and Thought in Dagbon
Supervisor: Stephen Chan (SOAS)
Ida Hadjivayanis, SOAS
Norms of Swahili Translation: An Analysis of Select Translated Prose
Supervisor: Chege Githiora (SOAS)
Agnes Hann, LSE
An Ethnographic Study of Kinship, Livelihoods and Women's Everyday Lives in Dakar, Senegal
Supervisor: Matthew Engelke (LSE) and Rita Astuti (LSE)
Charlotte Heales, King’s College
Microfinance and enabling environments: a perspective from Malawi
Supervisor: Debby Potts (King’s College) and Kate Maclean (King’s College)
Gwendolyn Heaner, SOAS
Destroying the Destroyer of Your Destiny: Pentecostalism and Charismatic Christianity in Post-Conflict Liberia
Supervisor: Paul Gifford (SOAS)
Cynthia Howson, SOAS
Thesis title: Women Smuggling: An Examination of Cross-Border Traders in Senegal.
Supervisor: Carlos Oya (SOAS)
Vicki Igglesden, Royal Holloway
The Response to Francophone African Immigration in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Supervisor: Professor David Simon (Royal Holloway)
Rob James, SOAS
Wilfred Cantwell Smith's Theory of Scripture Related to the Use of the Bible in African Anglicanism
Supervisor: Professor Paul Gifford (SOAS)
Edwin Johnson, SOAS
Thesis title: Contemporary Art and Patronage in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS)
Chifundo Kachale, SOAS
Judicial (In)activism in Malawi? A Critical Analysis of the Impact of Constitutional Jurisprudence on Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law
Supervisor: Mashood A Baderin (SOAS)
Alinafe Kasiya, SOAS
Decentralization, Participation, Accountability and District Development Planning in Malawi
Supervisor: Michael Jennings (SOAS)
Laila Kassam, SOAS
Making Aquaculture Work for Poverty Alleviation: Assessing the Cconditions for Pro-poor Aquaculture Development in Ghana
Supervisor: Andrew Dorward (SOAS)
Fatima Kazim-Olubodun, UCL
Comparative politics, Political Science - Party Dominance and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: A case Study of the People’s Democratic Party, 1999-2007
Jessica Kendall, SOAS
'African Fever'; the politics of race in the international circus arena (working title)
Supervisor: Dr Lola Martinez (SOAS)
Vincent Kienzler, LSE
Performance Measurement and Social Accountability in Uganda : Lessons from the 'Community-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System' Initiative
Supervisors: Nilima Gulrajani (LSE) and David Lewis (LSE)
Gabriel Klaeger, SOAS
Rush and relax: Intricate movements, fleeting encounters and the dilemmas of speed on a Ghanaian road (working title)
Supervisor: Harry West (SOAS), Richard Fardon (SOAS)
Christian Laheij, LSE
‘Culture of Peace’ Revisited. Islam, Human Security and Schema Construction in Mozambique (LSE scholarship funded)
Supervisor: Deborah James, LSE
Daniel Large, SOAS
Fantastic Invasions: intervention and the politics of the international in Sudan
Supervisor: Dr Stephen Hopgood (SOAS), Dr Tom Young (SOAS)
Hayley Leck, Royal Holloway
Urban global environmental change – Durban, South Africa’ (Submission due Oct/Nov 2011)
Supervisor: David Simon (Royal Holloway)
Joanne Lewis, SOAS
Women artists in Botswana in the late twentieth century
Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS)
Bala Liman, SOAS
Identity Politics, Citizenship Rights and Conflict in Nigeria
Supervisor: Tom Young (SOAS)
Sarah Longair, Birkbeck College
The development of historical and cultural representation in museums in Zanzibar from the colonial to the contemporary.
Supervisor: Hilary Sapire (Birkbeck College)
Charles Majinge, LSE
The United Nations, the African Union and the Rule of Law in Southern Sudan
Supervisor: Chaloka Beyani (LSE), Christine Chinkin (LSE)
Sandra Manuel, SOAS
Changing Notions of Sexuality in Mozambique: A Case Study of Urban Youth
Supervisor: Christopher (Kit) Davis (SOAS)
Cresencia A. Masawe, SOAS
Health Sector Reform and Women’s Reproductive Health Services in Rural Tanzania
Supervisor: Mike Jennings (SOAS)
Bakia Mbianyor, Royal Holloway
Geopolitics of Mining and Mineral Extraction and its implications for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods in Cameroon
Supervisor: David Simon (Royal Holloway), co-supervised with Klaus Dodds
Yoseph Mengistu, SOAS
The Christological Implications of the Pneumatology of Cyril of Alexandria in Orthodox Ethiopia (1607-1878)
Sophie Mew, SOAS
National Museums: Social memory and public access in Mali and Ghana
Supervisor: Dr Charles Gore (SOAS)
Nandera Mhando, Goldsmith College
Meaning, Gender and Kinship Making Aming the Kuria of Tanzania: Male and Female Agency
Peter Kehinde Mogaji, SOAS
Optimum Currency Area feasibility Tests: Instrumental Variable Estimations of Inflation Dynamics and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the West African Monetary Zone
Magali Moreau, UCL
Magali is studying land cover change and natural resource use in refugee hosting areas of Kasulu District, Western Tanzania.
Lucía Natalia Morera, SOAS
New to the Market: An ethnographical approach to the implantation of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Lagos.
Supervisor: Professor Paul Gifford (SOAS)
Caroline Mose, SOAS
Kenyan Hiphop: Interrogating Socio-Political Interventions of Popular Youth Culture in Nairobi
Supervisor: Dr Chege Githiora (SOAS)
Bernd E. T. Mueller, SOAS
The Role of Trade and External Finance in the Transition to a Market-Oriented Economic System in Rural Tanzania
Supervisor: Professor Jane Harrigan (SOAS)
Ronald Naluwairo, SOAS
Military Justice, Human Rights and the Law in Uganda
Supervisor: Mashood A. Baderin (SOAS)
Judith Nakayiza, SOAS
Language planning and policy in Uganda
Supervisor: Lutz Marten (SOAS)
Peter Nichols, SOAS
A Morpho-semantic Analysis of the Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati
Supervisor: Lutz Marten (SOAS)
Amy Norman, Queen Mary University
Reconceptualising Childhood in the Context of HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa: A Study of Generations, Change and the Everyday
Prince Ndudi Councillor Olokotor, SOAS
Recognition and Enforcement of Transnational Commercial Arbitral Award: A Comparative Study of the Legal Milieus of England and Wales and Nigeria.
Supervisor: Emilia Onyema (SOAS)
Naohiko Omata, SOAS
The Livelihood Strategies of the Liberian Refugee Population in Ghana
Supervisor: Dr Laura Hammond (SOAS), Dr Tania Kaiser (SOAS)
Sarah O’Neill, Goldsmith College
Defying the law,negotiating change. The Futanke’s opposition to the national ban on FGM in Senegal
Supervisors: Nici Nelson (Goldsmith College) and Sophie Day (Goldsmith College)
Evelyn Owen, Queen Mary University
The Geographies of Contemporary African Art
Supervisor: Catherine Nash (QMUL)
Robtel Neajai Pailey, SOAS
The Love of Liberty Divided Us Here? Implications of Dual Citizenship on Liberia's Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development Process
Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS)
Ruth Payne, Royal Holloway
Child-Headed Housheolds in Zambia: Construction, Survival and Change
Supervisors: Professor David Simon and Dr Katie Willis (RHUL)
Helena Perez-Nino, SOAS
Land and law in war to peace transitions in Africa (LIDC studentship, co-supervised with Birkbeck)
Supervisor: Prof. Christopher Cramer (SOAS)
Eugénia Pires, SOAS
Political Economy of Migrants’ Remittances: Evidence from the Angolan Diaspora in Portugal (Working Title)
Supervisor: Costas Lapavitsas, (SOAS)
Tara Polzer, LSE
Forced Migration, Identity and Citizenship; The Integration of Mozambican Refugees in South Africa
Supervisors: Tim Allen (LSE) and Jo Beall (LSE)
Sitna Quiroz-Uria, LSE
Politics, Kinship and Religion in Pobe, Benin: Analysing patron-client relations and corruption through the lens of religious conversion.
Supervisor: Deborah James, LSE
Anna Rader, SOAS
Civic Practice, Public Identity and Political Community in Somaliland
Supervisor: Stephen Chan (SOAS)
Katriina Ranne, SOAS
The Image of Water in the Poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi
Siham Rayale, SOAS
Thesis title: Women’s political participation and state-building in Somaliland
Supervisor: Laura Hammond, SOAS)
Rashi Rohatgi, SOAS
Abhimanyu Unnuth’s Hindi Poetry in Literary Mauritius and in the World
Supervisor: Kai Easton, SOAS
Cleo Rose-Innes, SOAS
Transport Infrastructure and Regional Integration in Southern Africa
Supervisor: Machiko Nissanke (SOAS)
Naomi Roux, Birkbeck College
Memory in the City: : Museums, heritage, and contemporary African urban histories
Supervisor: Annie E. Coombes (Birkbeck)
Madeleine Rutherford Wright, LSE
Evidence-based development policy movement and the utilisation of research to inform reproductive health policy in Ghana
Supervisors: Ernestina Coast (LSE), Tiziana Leone (LSE)
Nicole Salisbury, UCL
International Public Policy - 'Structural Interventions and HIV Prevention Networks in South Africa
Supervisor: David Hudson (UCL) and Graham Hart (UCL)
Anselmo Ricardo Augusto Samussone, SOAS
Corporate Governance and the Legal Protection of Employee-Shareholders in Mozambique
Supervisor: Peter Muchlinski (SOAS)
Aïsha Schmitt, SOAS
Beyond Praising the Prophet: Making New Meanings in Zanzibari Qasida
Supervisor: Graham Furniss (SOAS)
Katrin Schulze, SOAS
The State and Development of Contemporary Art in Northern Nigeria
Supervisor: Charles Gore (SOAS)
Michelle René Small, King’s College
Power, Politics and Private Violence in Post-Colonial Africa 1960-2008
Supervisor: Patrick Chabal (King’s College)
Lameen Souag, SOAS
Grammatical Contact in the Sahara: Arabic, Berber, and Songhay in Tabelbala and Siwa
Supervisor: Philip Jaggar (SOAS)
Sara Stevano, SOAS
Women's Work and Household Food Behaviour in Northern Mozambique
Supervisors: Deborah Johnston (SOAS), Harry West (SOAS)
John Paahoni Steven, SOAS
Thesis title: A survey of language diversity, use and attitude in Southern Sierra Leone
Supervisor: Peter Austin (SOAS)
Hagar Taha, SOAS
The Local Element of Peace: Role of Indigenous Civil Societies in Intervention and Conflict Resolution - Cases of Darfur (Sudan) and Somaliland (Northern Somalia
Supervisor: Stephen Chan (SOAS) and Tom Young (SOAS)
Lotta Takala-Greenish, SOAS
The role of industrial policy in the decline of the South African textiles and clothing sector
Supervisor: Ben Fine (SOAS)
Sehin Teferra
Occupational Hazard or Patriarchal Entitlement: Feminist Analysis of the Dynamics of Violence in Ethiopian Sex Work
Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS), Prof. Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS)
Helen Tilley, SOAS
Beyond Rationality: A Decade of Accountability and Budget Support in Tanzania (Working title)
Supervisor: Jane Harrigan (SOAS)
Danielle Faye Tran, SOAS
Post-TRC South African Writing and the Trauma of Apartheid
Supervisor: Kai Easton (SOAS)
Daria Trentini, SOAS
Muslim healers and Arabian spirits in Nampula city, Mozambique (working title)
Supervisor: Professor Harry West (SOAS)
Michaela Unterbarnscheidt, SOAS
A comparative study of transition and social change in early Thai and Amharic novels
Supervisor: Martin Orwin (SOAS)
Radha Upadhyaya, SOAS
Sources of Financial Fragility in Kenya – Essays in Portfolio Management, Corporate Governance and Market Structure
Supervisor: Machiko Nissanke (SOAS)
Hannah Vaughan-Lee, SOAS
The function of international humanitarian agencies in collapsed states: the case of Somalia
Supervisor: Laura Hammond (SOAS)
Charlene Watson, LSE
Forest Conservation for Carbon and Communities (south-east Ethiopia)
Supervisor: Susana Mourato (LSE) and E.J. Milner-Gulland (LSE)
Karin Wedig, SOAS
Political economy of non-formal education in rural Uganda and its labour market implications.
Supervisor: Christopher Cramer (SOAS)
Eliud Wekesa, LSE
A new lease of life: sexual and reproductive behaviour among PLWHA in the ART era in Nairobi informal settlements
Supervisor: Ernestina Coast (LSE)
Emily Welty, SOAS
Faith-based NGOs, Peacebuilding and Development: the Mennonite Central Committee's work in East Africa
Supervisor: Paul Gifford (SOAS)
Laryssa Whittaker, Royal Holloway
Challenging Structural Violence Through Music: Theorising the Sustainability of Cultural Initiatives for Positive Social Change in South Africa
Supervisor: Tina Ramnarine (RHUL)
Ursel Widemann, SOAS
Thesis title: Clothing and the Construction of Identity among the Tuareg
Supervisor: Tania Tribe (SOAS)
