Members of the Centre of African Studies at SOAS University of London

Dr Wayne Dooling

Chair, Centre of African Studies

Early colonial South African history; slavery and emancipation in the Cape Colony

Tel: 020 7898 4628
Email: wd2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 308
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 11:00 -- 12:50

Ms Angelica Baschiera

Manager, Centres and Institutes

Tel: 020 7898 4370
Email: ab17@soas.ac.uk
Room: 359
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Paul Asquith

Management Committee Member

AFFORD (The African Foundation for Development) Engagement and Policy Manager

Email: paul@afford-uk.org

Islamic Law, International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Public International Law, Human Rights & Islamic Law, especially interaction between International Law, Human Rights Law, and Islamic Law in Muslim States. Appointed as Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in the Sudan by the UN Human Rights Council at its 19th Session on 23rd March 2012.

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4715
Email: mb78@soas.ac.uk
Room: S135
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11:00 - 13:00

Professor Fareda Banda

Management Committee Member

Human Rights of Women, English Family Law, Comparative Family Law focusing on Africa, Law and Society in Africa, Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Tel: +44 (0)207 898 4664
Email: fb9@soas.ac.uk
Room: S223
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 11 - 13:00
On Sabbatical:T2 (2019/20)

Professor Stephen Chan, OBE

Management Committee Member

Politics of southern Africa, normative values and non-Western methodologies

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4655
Email: sc5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 253
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Professor Christopher Cramer

Management Committee Member

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: +44 (0)20 7898 4492
Email: cc10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 288
On Sabbatical:Term 2 (2021/22)

Professor Lindiwe Dovey

Management Committee Member

African film and video (particularly their intersection); filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); literary adaptation in Africa; contemporary film theory and 'World Cinema'; exile/immigration and violence in relation to African screen media; structures of film production, distribution, and exhibition in Africa; use of African languages in film

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4388
Email: ld18@soas.ac.uk
Room: 404
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Lucy Durán

Management Committee Member

Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4374
Email: ld@soas.ac.uk
Room: 596
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays 1-3pm

Dr Kai Easton

Management Committee Member

Cultures of travel (especially the Cape and the Indian Ocean; Australia; Sri Lanka); archives; visual and material cultures; landscape; maritime history; South African fiction and non-fiction in English (Coetzee; Wicomb); intertextuality; auto/ biography

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4373
Email: ke@soas.ac.uk
Room: 394
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Professor Chege Githiora

Management Committee Member

Swahili and Gĩkũyũ Language and Linguistics. Translation and Literacy in African Languages. Culture and Society of East Africa, Latin America and the African Diaspora.

Email: cg17@soas.ac.uk

Dr Michael Jennings

Management Committee Member

Politics, governance, and civil society in sub-Saharan Africa; non-governmental organisations; faith and development; history of development processes and interventions; issues in international health and non-state actors in health delivery.

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4268
Email: mj10@soas.ac.uk
Room: 261
Academic Support Hours: By appointment only
On Sabbatical:Full Year (2019/20)

Professor Marloes Janson

Management Committee Member

Anthropology of religion, religious reform (Islam and Pentecostalism), transnational religious networks (Tabligh Jamaʻat), faith-based development, urban anthropology, popular culture, gender, youth, West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria)

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4345
Email: mj19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 580
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 10am-12pm, see bio for details

Stephanie Kitchen

Management Committee Member

International African Institute

Chair, Publications Committee

Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4435
Email: sk111@soas.ac.uk

Professor Lutz Marten

Management Committee Member

Bantu languages and linguistics; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; historical linguistics; language and society in Eastern and Southern Africa

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4653
Email: lm5@soas.ac.uk
Room: 426
Academic Support Hours: Please book an appointment (campus, online)

Anna De Mutiis

Management Committee Member

Mo Ibrahim Foundation Governance for Development in Africa Initiative Webinar Series Coordinator (Centre of African Studies and SOAS Radio)

Tel: 020 7898 4893
Email: am131(at)soas.ac.uk
Room: B405
Academic Support Hours: Part-time

Professor Emilia Onyema

Management Committee Member

International arbitration (commercial and investment); OHADA law; Commercial contracts; International sale of goods; International carriage of goods; Nigerian customary laws.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4717
Email: eo3@soas.ac.uk
Room: S341
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 12:00 - 14:00

Dr Martin Orwin

Somali language and literature; metrics and use of language in poetry; translation of poetry; the relationship between language and music.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4376
Email: mo1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 405
Academic Support Hours: See office hours on door, or email

Dr Marie Rodet

Management Committee Member

Modern West African history, especially social and gender history of Western Mali, history of West African slavery and emancipation.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4606
Email: mr28@soas.ac.uk
Room: 309
Academic Support Hours: On Leave Term 1 - 2019-20

Nick Westcott

Management Committee Member