Religions
Dr Joel Cabrita
Lecturer in Religions in Africa
- African Christianity; the history of the church in Africa; Independent churches; Independent Churches in Southern Africa; religion and media; orality and literacy; religion and gender; African politics and religion.
- Southern Africa
Dr Humphrey Fisher
Emeritus Professor of History, SOAS
- Religious history of pre-colonial Africa, and in particular of Islam in tropical Africa; religious conversion, particularly in Africa; slavery, particularly in Islamic tropical Africa; European travellers in Africa, particularly Gustav Nachtigal. Booty, historiography of Africa; Almoravids and ancient Ghana.
- Sahel, Sudan belt, Ghana
Professor Paul Gifford
Professor of African Christianity, SOAS, pg@soas.ac.uk
- The socio-political role of Christianity in Africa
- Ghana, Zimbabwe, Uganda - and Africa generally
