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Public Lecture: Camarade Papa & Co. Works That Relegate Colonization to the Museum; Speaker: Abdoulaye Imorou
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: The discourse surrounding Africa, and more broadly the 'Black world', often centers on the colonial yoke and the ways colonization and related systems – slavery, imperialism, segregation… – have shaped and continue to shape Black lives. This presentation highlights fictional works that relegate colonization to the museum, offering a shift in perspective. It draws ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Social Resilience: Sustaining Fashion during and Post Covid in Ghana; Speaker: Adwoa Bobie
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: The world has gone through unprecedented health, social, and economic crises in the past three years due to the Coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war. Though the pandemic’s death toll and health implications are alarming, the social and economic disruption during and after is not lost on us. The fashion industry has been particularly ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Beyond categories: Self-categorization of people on the move in the Sudans; Speaker: Ulrike Schultz
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: In this talk, I scrutinize how people originating from the Southern part of Sudan are labeled and categorized in the processes following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005) and the secession of South Sudan (2011). Besides being classified as “displaced” in Khartoum, a place many of them had been living all their lives ... Read more
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Art Exhibition: ‘Fragments’
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Public Lecture: Hybrid governance and shadow economies: violent networks and community responses in Northern Benin; Speaker: Kamal Donko
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: Taking the border town of Malanville as a case study, in this presentation I examine the linkages between shadow economies and networks of violent actors and how people navigate this environment. Northern Benin is marked by persistent socio-economic precarity, limited state presence, and rising insecurity. Based on a qualitative approach, the analysis draws on ... Read more
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Book Launch: “Prospects of Regional Integration in Africa”
In 2021, MIASA's first thematic conference on "Prospects of Regional Integration in Africa: A Comparative Perspective" was held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa from 13-15 September 2021. The conference was funded by MIASA and convened by Prof Abena Oduro, then Acting Director Ghana of MIASA, together with Prof Andreas ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Ghana’s Inland Ocean: The Infrastructuresand Technopoliticsof Volta Lake; Speaker: Professor Stephan F. Miescher
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: Ghana’s hydroelectric Akosombo Dam created a vast lake extending 250 miles to the north. Although the planners promoted Akosombo as a multi-purpose scheme, lake transport was an afterthought. When the dam was completed in 1965, no decisions had been made of how Ghana would use the lake’s resources, deal with its challenges, and cope ... Read more
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Writing Workshop 2025: Democracy, Conflict Resolution and Climate Change
The Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on the themes of democracy, conflict resolution and green energy on the continent with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The 5-day writing workshop is designed to provide early ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Costumes and kin: the (un)making of female togetherness in Accra’s zongos; Speaker: Ann Cassiman
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: A common practice in West-Africa, especially among women, is to sew matching outfits made from the same fabric to wear on large public occasions, as an expression of solidarity and unity, but also as a spectacle of cosmopolitanism and self-making. The larger and more visible the groups wearing these 'uniforms', the more grandiose and ... Read more
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Public Lecture: Keeping the flame alive: Commemorating martyrs in the Sudanese revolution; Speaker: Valerie Haensch
MIASA Seminar RoomAbstract: Since the start of Sudan’s December 2018 revolution and the overthrow of President al-Bashir in April 2019, competing struggles have been going on between supporters of the ousted Islamist regime and those of the revolutionary movement. Following the fall of the regime, a transitional government consisting of military and civilian members was established in ... Read more
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Conference: Cash in Crisis in Africa: Navigating Financial Realities in Times of Disruption
Financial technology advancements have drastically transformed Africa’s payment ecosystem and relationships with money. Yet physical cash (notes and coins) remains an enduring feature of Africa’s formal and informal economies. This conference explores the often conflicting dynamics between policy and governance frameworks, and crises, in shaping—and being shaped by—the circulation, accessibility, and utilization of cash in ... Read more
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