Staff
Chair of Centre
Academic Staff
Christopher Cramer
Member, Centre of African Studies
Africa: economics of Africa, political economy of development, political economy of war and peace in southern Africa, and the economics of cashew production, processing and trade
- Tel: 020 7898 4492
- Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 288
- On Sabbatical:On leave 1 September 2009 until 1 September 2010
Chege Githiora
Chair, Centre of African Studies
Swahili language, literature and linguistics; lexicography; Kikuyu language and literature; language planning and policy in East Africa; African diaspora in Latin America; language and culture in East Africa; orthography and standardization of African languages.
- Tel: 020 7898 4395
- Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Heinzen
Research Associate
The role of 'soft infrastructure' in society; the social and economic implications of HIV/AIDS; the invention of new social and economic systems that support the natural environment
Edmund Hogan
Research Associate
Archivist, Society of African Missions, Ireland, and occasional lecturer in Ecclesiastical History.
Murray Last
Professorial Research Associate
Medical anthropology; traditional medicine; pre-colonial history: Islamic (especially 19th century Jihad) and pre-Islamic societies of northern Nigeria; religion among non-Muslim Hausa; Islamic intellectual tradition in northern Nigeria; youth culture of urban Kano (Nigeria).
John Ryle
Research Associate
Human rights, famine relief and conflict resolution, and a popular ethnography of the Agar Dinka of South Sudan
