Ying Cheng
Is Theatre Dying in Nigeria? Recycling Popular Theatre in Metropolitan Lagos
African Languages, Cultures and Literatures Section
Africa Department PhD Students
Gromyko Dumuje
Fragmented Memory In an Invented Land: The Absence of History in the Abacha Dictatorship of Nigeria
- Email: 645704@soas.ac.uk
Sana Goyal
“Awarding Africa” from the Caine to the Commonwealth: First Books, First Prizes, & Women Writers
- Email: 633321@soas.ac.uk
Jade Lee
Women of the British Colonial Service: Contested Identities and Liminal Lives, 1936 – 1961
- Email: 269052@soas.ac.uk
Jinjian Li
Nyerere and Post-colonial Swahili Literature
- Email: 666764@soas.ac.uk
Ret’sepile Makamane
Aesthetics of African Literature: The fiction of Thomas Mofolo, and Sesotho novelists who came after him.
- Email: 645706@soas.ac.uk
Yoseph Mengistu
The Christological Implications of the Pneumatology of Cyril of Alexandria in Orthodox Ethiopia (1607-1878)
- Email: ym6@soas.ac.uk
Zaahida Nabagereka
Resistance to Linguistic Imperialism: Luganda Literature production in Uganda (working title)
- Email: 252730@soas.ac.uk
Peter Nichols
A Morpho-semantic Analysis of the Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati
- Email: 180481@soas.ac.uk
Cristina Nicolini
The evolution of communications in HIV / AIDS prevention – Research in South-East Tanzania
Portia Owusu
Spectres from the Past: The Politics of 'History', Memory and Slavery in West African and African-American Literature.
- Email: 581410@soas.ac.uk
Miriam Pahl
Precarious Lives in the Postcolony – The Concept of the Human in Contemporary African Genre Fiction in English
- Email: 606538@soas.ac.uk
Anne Schumann
Danse philosophique! The Social and Political Dynamics of Zouglou Music in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 1990-2008
- Email: a.schumann@soas.ac.uk
Robin Steedman
Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers and the ‘Creative Hustle’: Gender and Film Production between the Local and the Transnational
- Email: 534979@soas.ac.uk
Recently Awarded PhDs
2018
- Robin Steedman Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers and the 'Creative Hustle': Gender and Film Production between the Local and the Transnational (Dr L Dovey)
2017
- Portia Owusu Spectres from the Past: The Politics of 'History', Memory and Slavery in West African and African-American Literature (Dr K Easton)
- Natalio Dixon Wheatley Race, Class, and Resistance in Three Caribbean Novels (Dr K Osei-Nyame)
2016
- Kate Bolgar Smith Soundtracks of the City: Listening to the Film Music of the Black Diaspora in London and Paris (Dr L Dovey)
- Ying Cheng Is Theatre Dying in Nigeria? Recycling Popular Theatre in Metropolitan Lagos (Dr A Oyètádé)
- Benedetta Lanfranchi Judging Crimes Against Humanity in Acholi - A philosophical Interpretation of the Use of Acholi Traditional Justice Mechanisms in the Aftermath of the War in Northern Uganda (Dr A Rettová)
2015
- Louisa Egbunike The Igbo Experience in the Igbo-Nigerian Novel (Dr K Osei-Nyame)
2014
- Danielle Tran Post-apartheid Narratives of Trauma: Literary Representations of South Africa's Contemporary Traumas (Dr K Easton)
- Mohamed Afrah Between Continuity and Innovation: Transitional Nature of Post-independence Somali Poetry and Drama 1960s - the Present (Dr F Harding)
2013
- Yoseph Mengistu "He was anointed because he was incarnated": Cyrillo- Alexandrian Orthodoxy in the view of modern Ethiopian theologians (Prof David Appleyard)
- Nathalie Montlouis Lords and Empresses in and out of Babylon: The EABIC community and the dialectic of female subordination (Dr A Oyètádé)
- Charles Pigott Voices of the Mountains: Language and Identity in Andean Song (Prof G Furniss)
- Aïsha Schmitt Nyoyo Zimefurahika: Urban Qasida in Zanzibar (Prof G Furniss)
2012
- Caroline Mose Hip-hop in Nairobi: Interrogating Popular Culture and Its Socio-Political Intersections in Urban Africa (Dr C Githiora)
2011
- Anita Adam Benadiri People of Somalia with particular Reference to the Reer Hamar of Mogadishu (Dr M Orwin)
- Jarmo Pikkujamsa The search for Resolution in the Tensions of Senegalese Life: Francophone African writing with special reference to the novels of Ken Bugul (Prof G Furniss)
- Katriina Ranne - The Image of Water in the Poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi (Dr A Rettová)
- Anne Schumann Danse philosophique! The Social and Political Dynamics of Zouglou Music in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, 1990-2008 (Prof G Furniss)
- Peter Nicholas A Morpho-Semantic Analysis of Persistive, Alterative and Inceptive Aspects in siSwati (Prof L Marten)
2010
- Jean Kamdem The Dynamics of Bilingual Adult Literacy in Africa: A Case Study of Kom, Cameroon (Dr C Githiora)
2009
- Mark Brogden The Culture of Exploration: British Expeditions to Northern Nigeria, 1822-1827 (Prof G Furniss)
2008
- Betty Sibongile Dlamini Women and Theatre for Development in Swaziland (Dr Frances Harding)
- Zoe Norridge Perceptions of Pain: Narratives of Hurt and Healing in Contemporary African Literature (Dr K Osei-Nyame, Jnr)
- Anna McCormack Pronominal Agreement in the Southern Bantu Languages: From a Dynamic Syntax Perspective (Prof L Marten)
- Serge Sagna Formal and Semantic Properties of the Gujjolaay Eegimaa (a.k.a. Banjal) Nominal Classification System (Dr F Luepke)
2007
- Lizzy Attree The Literary Response to HIV and AIDS in South Africa and Zimbabwe, 1990–2005 (Dr K Easton)