Photo by Marie-Aude Fouéré, Tanzania, 2020

About

AfDevLives team

Yonatan N. Gez, Principal Investigator (PI)

Yonatan is a social anthropologist studying international development, family dynamics, well-being, and religion in East Africa. Alongside his work on Project AfDevLives, he is deputy PI on Swiss National Science Foundation Sinergia project called FamilEA: Remaking of the Family in East Africa (Project n° CRSll5_213547/1, 2023-2027)

Carla Bertin, Postdoctoral Fellow

Carla completed her PhD in anthropology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in France. Her thesis focused on Pentecostalism, mobilities, temporalities and religious place-making in rural Benin. She also worked on memories of the Atlantic slave trade, as well as on notions of the good life. As a member of Project AfDevLives, she develops a case study in the district of Chokwè, in rural southern Mozambique

Janine Häbel, Research Fellow

Janine is a cultural anthropologist who has spent over a decade in Northern Tanzania engaged in development work and scholarly research. She completed her PhD in Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where her work shed light on the nuanced ways in which gender, sexuality, and secrecy intersect in the Kilimanjaro region. Currently, as part of the AfDevLives project, she continues her research in the Kilimanjaro region of Tanzania

Francis Ngure, PhD Candidate

Ngure is a Kenyan citizen with a bachelor's degree in community development and a Master of Arts degree in sociology both from Moi University Eldoret. His research interests, from his master’s thesis and two publications, have greatly focused on objectivity and reality as subjectively lived and experienced

Berenike Eichhorn, PhD Candidate

Berenike did her BA in Anthropology and MA in African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. For her MA thesis, she conducted field research on the naming of daladala stops in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Her interests include Swahili studies, posthumanism as well as queer-feminist and postcolonial studies. For her PhD research within Project AfDevLives she develops a case study in Lindi, southern Tanzania

Keren Kuenberg, PhD Candidate

Keren is an architectural researcher and curator. Her practice is situated at the intersection of the built environment, archives, exhibitions, and politics – in various interactive formats. She’s previously worked for museums, universities, and non-profit organisations. Working on various projects that investigate multi-narrative histories through the use of 3D scanning

Marta Patricio, Project Manager

Marta is a political scientist with a master’s (2010) and a PhD (2017) in African Studies. Her research focuses in state-building processes and state-society relations, justice and legal pluralism in the post-colonial period, with a specific expertise in Mozambique. Since 2010 she has been part of various research projects at CEI (Center for International Studies)

Collaborative advisory board

Marie-Aude Fouéré, EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (France)

Manya Kagan, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Eunice Kamaara, Moi University (Kenya)

Lena Kroeker, Bayreuth University (Germany)

Angela Kronenburg García, UCLouvain (Belgium)

Eric Masese, Moi University (Kenya)

Claire Médard, IRD – Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France) and Moi University (Kenya) 

George Mutalemwa, St. Augustine University (Tanzania)

Orlando Nipassa, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique)

Manuel João Ramos, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon (Portugal)

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