Forschungsbericht IfA 2007 - Institut für Afrikanistik

Introduction
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Study programme
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Teaching
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Current research projects
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Co-operation
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Personnel
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Working in the University of Leipzig
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Serving the African Studies community
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Publications
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Lectures & Presentations
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University of Leipzig Papers on Africa
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Introduction
This is the second annual report published by the Institut für Afrikanistik. Again, we would like to use
this opportunity to inform about activities and plans at the Institute, and cordially invite feed-backs
from the various constituencies.
The Institutes history dates back to the late 19th century. The linguistic tradition of the time was
opened to include history and other disciplines in the 1960s. The Institute is part of the Faculty of
History, Arts and Oriental Studies. Teaching and research is based in three broad multi-disciplinary
areas: African Languages and Literatures, History and Culture in Africa, and Economics, Society and
Politics in Africa.
A number of core activities of the Institute continued in 2007 and deserve particular mentioning:
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In 2007 the Institute enrolled the second cohort in the new Bachelor and Master programmes
while the old Magister programme slowly is phased out.
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Last year the Institute continued to collaborate in the European Master “Global Studies”, which
is co-ordinated at the University of Leipzig’s Centre for Advanced Study. The Institute also offers the international Master programme “Small Enterprise Promotion and Training” (sept).
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The Institute maintains a number of partnerships for student exchange under the European
Socrates programme. It is a member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
(AEGIS). The University of Leipzig maintains institutional partnerships with the universities of
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania).
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Preparations for hosting the 3rd European Conference in African Studies (ECAS 3) in 2009,
the year of the 600th anniversary of the Alma mater lipsiensis, are fully under way.
During the academic year 2006-2007 the Institute’s managing director was Prof. Dr. Helmut Asche.
The secretariat is run by Mrs. Monika Große.
Study Programme
In the winter term 2007-2008 a total of 402 students were enrolled in the different programmes offered
by the Institute.
Major
Afrikanistik
Total (incl. 2nd major, minor)
139
229
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Diploma translator
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3
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PhD
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11
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11
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Magister major
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124
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167
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Magister minor
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2
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46
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Exam abroad
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2
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2
African Studies
88
30
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Bachelor
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82
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27
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Master
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6
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3
History and Culture in Africa
5
90
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PhD
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2
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84
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Magister (minor)
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3
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6
Sept
67
53
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PhD
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9
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2
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Master Business
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81
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51
Sub-total
4
322
402
Magister Afrikanistik
The traditional Magister programme “Afrikanistik”, which was offered since 1992, has been discontinued. The last students were enrolled in 2005. From the group of students in this programme, the following Magisterarbeiten – thesis – were submitted in 2007:
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Jonne Brücher. Private Sector Development and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Kenya
with Emphasis on Kakamega (supervisor: Robert Kappel).
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Susann de Ruijter (née Boss). Zur Phonologie und Morphologie des Nomens im Bungu (Tanzania) (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Jan Friedrich. Entstehungsbedingungen industrieller Cluster im sub-saharischen Afrika am
Beispiel des ICT-Clusters in Kapstadt (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Dirk Heinrich. Der African Peer Review Mechanism: Das Fallbeispiel Ghana (supervisor: Ulf
Engel).
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Tina Kramer. Geschichtskultur in Südost-Togo (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Sarah-Ann Kuhlmann. Afrikanische Kunst im deutschsprachigen Raum: Wahrnehmung und
Umgang (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Christin Ludwig. Corporate Governance am Beispiel des Coltanhandels der Demokratischen
Republik Kongo (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Mareike Neumann. Politik und Korruption in Kenya (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Frederike Olewicki. Frauen in bewaffneten Konflikten in Afrika am Beispiel Ruandas (supervisor: Tilo Grätz).
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Agnes Sander. Konflikt und Ivorité in der Cote d’ Ivoire (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Susanne Schmutzer. Politische und soziale Rechte indigener Minderheiten im südlichen Afrika
(supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Katharina Thielsen. Die Beziehung der chefferie traditionnelle zu den Staatsinstitutionen in
Burkina Faso (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
In addition members of the Institute served as principle supervisors for theses submitted in other university departments or programmes:
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Axel Biallas. Deutsche Beiträge zur Konstruktion einer europäischen Afrikapolitik seit 1998.
Eine Annäherung (Politikwissenschaft; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Melanie Böckmann. Images of Africa: G. A. Henty and Richard Francis Burton (Englisch; supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Ulrike von Bothmer. Frauen und Tourismus. Das Beispiel der West-Usambaraberge in Tansania (Ethnologie; supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Andrea Müller-Frank. Das Weltsozialforum in Nairobi (Global Studies; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Tim Hentschel. Untersuchungen der Varietäten des Französischen in der Côte d’Ivoire (Romance Studies; supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff)
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John Njenga Karugia. A critical analysis of conflict early warning and conflict early response
mechanisms of ECOWAS, IGAD and SADC (Global Studies; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Andreas Kasperski. Kollektive Sicherheit in Afrika. Die Intervention der Afrikanischen Union im
Sudan (Politikwissenschaft; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Jacob Lisakafu. The Effectiveness of Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN) of IGAD (Global Studies; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Rashed Mohammed. ECOWAS: A Constructive Shift into the Security Area (Global Studies;
supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Sangeetha Ramachandran Partasarathi. Indo-Pakistan border conflict over Kashmir (Global
Studies; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Christina Rosendahl. Umgang mit „zerfallenden Staaten“ – Das Beispiel der Europäischen Union in Somalia und Somaliland (Politikwissenschaft; supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Bachelor “Afrikastudien”
With the winter semester 2006-2007 the Institute introduced a Bachelor programme “Afrikastudien“. It
is co-ordinated by Doris Löhr.
The Bachelor is based on a research-driven curriculum on language, culture and societies in Africa
with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. The Institute offers a thematic variety of courses which is unique
in Germany, employing linguistic-philological, historical as well as cultural and social science-based
methods. The Institute is characterised by the different specifications of the respective professorships:
“Afrikanistik” (Languages and Literatures), History and Culture in Africa as well as Economics and
Politics in Africa. The practical and theoretical language training constitutes a fourth working sector,
which is offered in two of the big African languages of wider communication by mother-tongue teachers (Hausa, Kiswahili).
The Bachelor “Afrikastudien” is offered as a combination of a core subject (with 120 credit points) plus
elective modules (60 credit points). The language of instruction is usually German, second working
language is usually English. The Bachelor “Afrikastudien” allows for a study abroad period (6-month
term).
Some modules of the Bachelor programme are characterised by team teaching from the angels of
different disciplines (African Studies I-IV), others are discipline-specific (linguistics, history, economics,
politics). They are supplemented by language training modules and/or skill developing modules. The
acquisition of practical and theoretical knowledge in one of the major African languages of wider communication is obligatory.
Applications for the Bachelor study programme must be addressed to the Student Councelling Centre.
In the academic year 2006-2007 a total of 28 students were enrolled in this programme. After the first
year, 18 students remained in the programme – the others decided to discontinue their studies.
Three Bachelor theses were submitted in 2007 by students enrolled in the old Magister programme:
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Elisabeth Bollrich. Brain Drain, Remittances und ihre Entwicklungswirkungen im Vergleich
(supervisor: Helmut Asche).
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Benita Sarah Krebs. Reformen der Bildungspolitik in Post-Apartheid Südafrika. Die Entwicklung des südafrikanischen Schulsystems seit 1990 (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Conrad Rein. The evangelists and catechists of the Moravian Church in South Africa before
1939 (supervisor: Adam Jones).
How to contact us
Website: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~afrika
E-mail: [email protected]
Master “Afrikastudien/African Studies”
The Master programme „Afrikastudien/African Studies“ was also introduced in the winter term 20062007. The Master is a two-year course which starts in October. It is fully modularised and based on
the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The languages of instruction are both English and
German. The Master is interdisciplinary. Successful students will be qualified for employment in academic life, culture and the media, as well as for professional occupations in the field of development
co-operation, administration, culture management, politics and economics. The MA “African Studies”
is co-ordinated by Ulf Engel.
In the first year this programme was offered, a total of only three students were admitted. This was a
deliberate decision in view of the old Magister programme where teaching was still to be continued for
a number of years. In the academic year 2007-2008 the intake was increased to five students. Further
increases are planned as the number of students in the old Magister programme will be reduced.
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The programme
First year, winter semester (3 out of 6 electives): African politics I, Economics of Africa I, African history, Cultural change in Africa, Language description and documentation*, Applied African linguistics
and socio-linguistics*
First year, summer semester (3 out of 7 electives): African politics II, Economics of Africa II, Representations of Africa, Identities in Africa, Language history and language contact*, African language
structures and texts*, Hausa basic proficiency*, Kiswahili basic proficiency
Second year, winter semester: Study abroad
Second year, summer semester: Colloquium African Studies (culture, economics, history, politics,
society) or Colloquium Afrikanistik (language, culture)*, Master thesis
* Usually taught in German, but may be taught in English subject to consensual agreement between
audience and teacher.
Application
An electronic application form can be downloaded from the website http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~afrika.
The following documents form part of the application:
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A copy of the first degree, including completed and official certificates and transcripts of all
previous university studies (non-German or non-English texts have to be accompanied by certified English translations).
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A letter of motivation explaining why the applicant is interested in this particular Master course.
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Two letters of recommendation from academic teachers or employers.
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A statement regarding German, English and French proficiency. Applicants whose native language is neither German nor English nor French must provide original test scores for standardized proficiency tests in all three languages (for details see website).
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A curriculum vitae in English or German, a photocopy of the passport or ID and an e-mail contact address.
How to contact us
Website: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~afrika
E-mail: [email protected]
International Master “Small Enterprise Promotion and Training” (SEPT)
SEPT was launched in 1998 at the University of Leipzig with strong support from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) as well as other private and public partners.
SEPT is a research and training programme at the University of Leipzig dedicated to providing theoretical insight as well as practical experience with regards to the promotion of small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
It covers a broad range of subjects, reflecting today’s complex world:
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Theoretical discussions on the economic relevance of SMEs;
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Experiences of SME development in industrialised countries and the developing world;
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The economic, cultural and political environments for the development of SMEs;
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The pursuit of competitive advantages, by emphasizing innovation, creativity, intelligent decision-making and relationship-building; and
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Specific knowledge in SME management and entrepreneurship.
Focusing on economic analysis, yet bringing together various approaches of social sciences SEPT
thus provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of SMEs in developing and transition
economies.
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In 2007, the number of SEPT students rose to 58, with 19 students finishing the Master course, 19
students finishing the first academic year and another 20 beginning their studies in October 2006. In
addition, there are 12 PhD students conducting research in the realm of SMEs’ management and
promotion.
How to contact us
Website: http://www.uni-leipzig.de/sept/
E-mail: [email protected]
European Master “Global Studies”
Most members of the institute participate in the European Master Global Studies which is offered by a
consortium of European universities (LSE London, Vienna, Wrocław) and co-ordinated by the University of Leipzig (see http://www.uni-leipzig.de/zhs/). The non-European partners in this Master programme are the universities of California (Santa Barbara), Dalhousie (Halifax, Canada), Macquarie
(Sydney, Australia) and Stellenbosch (Boland, South Africa).
In the summer semester 2007 a selected number of courses were also offered in the MA “Global Studies”. In the winter semester 2007-2008 all courses offered in the Master “African Studies” were also
open to students from the European Master “Global Studies”.
PhD research
Traditionally members of the Institute’s teaching staff have supervised PhDs on an individual basis.
The following candidates submitted their thesis in 2007:
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Fred Kisekke-Ntale. The politics of biodiversity around Kakamega Forest, Kenya (supervisor:
Ulf Engel).
Mrs Constantia Mumma (Nairobi, Kenya) successfully defended her doctoral thesis on “The Management of Transnational Water Conflicts in the Nile regions” successfully in January 2007 (supervisor:
Ulf Engel).
In addition, members of the Institute collaborated in two structured, three-year doctoral training programmes, the International PhD Programme “Transnationalisation and Regionalisation since the end
of the 18th century” and the PhD Research Training Group (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 1261) “Critical
Junctures of Globalisation” (or “Bruchzonen der Globalisierung”). The PhD Research Training Group,
which is chaired by Ulf Engel and in which Adam Jones also collaborates, commenced in April 2006.
Seven more grants were awarded in 2008. The first PhDs are expected to be submitted in 2009.
Through this co-operation, members of the Institute are also involved in the Graduate Centre Humanties and Social Sciences of the Research Academy Leipzig (RAL) which was formally launched on 13
December 2006 (see www.uni-leipzig.de/RAL/gchuman). Working on behalf of the faculties, the RAL
is the university’s institution to host all PhD research training programmes.
Ongoing PhDs
The following PhD students were working on their thesis:
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Salem Alshrif. Herausforderungen an die libyschen KMU im globalen Wettbewerb. Der Kooperationsfaktor in der libyschen Wirtschaftspolitik (supervisor: Helmut Asche).
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Joseph Atoyebi. The Oko language in Nigeria (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Manuela Bauche. Diskurs und Genese medizinischen Wissens zwischen Afrika und Deutschland 1884-1920 (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Luis Bernal. Die Transaktionskostentheorie und ihr Einfluss auf Innovationsprozesse in wissensintensiven Dienstleistungsunternehmen (supervisor: Utz Dornberger).
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Claudia Berrones. Financial Rating of Small- and Medium-Sized Companies in Mexico (supervisor: Utz Dornberger).
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Jonas Billy. Die NSDAP und Togo: Appelle, Debatten und Planung (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Beniam Mitiku Cherinet (Addis Ababa). Politeness in request preformance: Determination of
the sociolinguistic competence of Amharic speakers (external supervisor H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Ruben Eberlein (Berlin). Herrschaft jenseits des Staats. Staatsverfall, Extraversion und externe Intervention in Westafrika (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Alena Fröde. Foreign Direct Investment of German SMEs in Africa (supervisor: Helmut
Asche).
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Ingrid Fromm. Agricultural Value Chains in Honduras: Chances and Perspectives for Insertion
in the Global Economy (supervisor: Robert Kappel).
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Joël Glasman: Les forces de maintien de l’ordre dans le Togo Colonial, ca. 18841960 (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Christine Hentschel (Berlin). Governing Security in ‘Liquid Spaces’. Durban, South Africa (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Heike Höffler. Does Value Chain Promotion lead to Pro-Poor Rural Growth? Empirical Evidence from Kenya (supervisor: Helmut Asche).
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Sigrid Kannengießer (Hamburg). Auswirkungen kultureller Globalisierungsprozesse auf massenmediale Geschlechterkonstrukte (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Hak-Soo Kim (Seoul). The Guduf language (Central Chadic/Nigeria) (external supervisor: H.
Ekkehard Wolff).
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Juliane Klein. Corpus-basierte Anwendungen von Human Language Technology (HLT) auf afrikanische Sprachen in Südafrika (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Jenny Kuhlmann. Transnational political activism of African diasporas: The cases of Somalis
in Denmark and Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Anja Langer. Multilingual school systems as a means of improving the quality of education and
reducing poverty in Malawi (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Olaf Mürer. Textiles as a mirror of cultural dynamics. Colour and the communicative powers of
factory-produced cloth in modern Ghanaian society (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Noor Un Nabi. Dynamics of Internationalization of Technology-dependent Manufacturing Industry in the Developing Country Perspective: A study on Pharmaceutical Industry of Bangladesh (supervisor: Utz Dornberger).
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Christfried Naumann. Phonetik und Phonologie des Siwi (Berber/Ägypten) (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Ogone John Obiero (Nairobi). Reversing Olusuba obsolescence: Prospects and impediments
(external supervisor H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Eike Ohlendorf. Koloniale Hauptstädte als umstrittener Raum: Dakar und Hanoi (supervisor:
Adam Jones).
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Anja Osei (Düsseldorf). Linkage-Strategien afrikanischer Parteien: Ghana und Senegal im
Vergleich (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Milena Sarabia Palacio. Entwicklung einer Strategie zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
kleiner und mittelständischer Unternehmen in Mosambik (supervisor: Helmut Asche).
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Eva Range (Erfurt). Menschenrechte in Südafrika (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Claudia Rauhut. Transkulturelle Prozesse in der Santería. Zur Inszenierung religiös-kultureller
afrokubanischer Traditionen im Kontext veränderter Gesellschafts- und Machtkonstellationen
in Kuba seit 1990 (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Matthias Schildt. Der Entwurf von Weltordnungen im 21. Jahrhundert: Aufstrebende Mittelmächte in den Forschungsprogrammen von DIE, GIGA und SWP (supervisor: Ulf Engel).
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Judy Smith-Höhn (Cape Town). Oligopoles of Power: Sierra Leone and Liberia (supervisor: Ulf
Engel).
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Michaela Ungerer. Impact of business linkages on international competitiveness of SME and
local economic development – a sub-sector analysis of the garment industry in Vietnam (supervisor: Robert Kappel).
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Alice Wangui. Social networks and language proficiency in Kenyan primary schools (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
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Kirstin Weber. Museen in Tanzania: Europäische und afrikanische Perspektiven materieller
Kultur im Spannungsfeld des 20. Jahrhunderts (supervisor: Adam Jones).
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Milena Wilson. Wissensmanagement in KMU in Peru (supervisor: Robert Kappel).
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Xihua Zeng. Local Enabling Environment for Sustainable Development of High-Tech Industries in China (supervisor: Robert Kappel).
Ongonig habilitations
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Doris Löhr. Sprache, Migration und Dominanz in Borno – Sprachkontakt im Spiegel soziokultureller Umbrüche in der westlichen Tschadsee-Region (supervisor: H. Ekkehard Wolff).
Teaching
In the Bachelor Afrikastudien programme the following courses were taught by regular staff members:
Summer term 2007
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Module „Afrikastudien I“ (BA AFR 101, co-ordinated by Helmut Asche): „Sprache in Afrika“ (H.
Ekkehard Wolff), „Regionalgeschichte Afrikas vor 1900: Zentralafrika“ (Adam Jones), „Afrika in
der Weltwirtschaft“ (Helmut Asche) [all lectures]
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Module „Afrikastudien II“ (BA AFR 101, co-ordinated by H. Ekkehard Wolff): „Arbeitstechniken
und -methoden“ (Doris Löhr) [seminar], „Berufsfelder“ (co-ordinator: H. Ekkehard Wolff) [lecture series]
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[Magister] „Die Sprachen Afrikas (II)“: „Charakteristische Merkmale“ (Doris Löhr)
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Winter term 2007-2008
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Module „Afrikanische Sprachen in Zeit und Raum“ (BA AFR 301): „Sprachbeschreibung und typologie“ (Axel Fleisch), „Sprachkontakt und -dokumentation“ (Doris Löhr), „Sprachvergleich
und -klassifikation“ (Doris Löhr) [all seminars]
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Module “Politik und Ökonomie” (BA AFR 303, co-ordinated by Helmut Asche):
“Wirtschaftspolitik in Afrika” (Helmut Asche), „Politik in Afrika“ (Ulf Engel), „Afrika in den internationalen Beziehungen“ (Ulf Engel) [all lectures]
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In addition, Ari Awagana and Abdilatif Abdalla ran the Hausa and Kiswahli language training
programme respectively (BA AFR 111, 121, 212, 222, 313, 323), supported by H. Ekkehard
Wolff (Hausa Grammar I+II) and Axel Fleisch (Kiswahili Grammar I+II).
The following courses were taught by regular staff members in the Magister and Master African Studies programme, respectively:
Summer term 2007
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Module “Co-operation and Conflict” (MA AFR 711, co-ordinated by Ulf Engel): “Deutschlands
Afrikapolitik” (Ulf Engel), “Africa in Conflict: Governing and Contesting Urban Spaces” (Ulf
Engel & Christine Hentschel) [both seminars]
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Module “Economics of Africa I” (MA AFR 712, co-ordinated by Helmut Asche): “Africa in Globalisation” [lecture] and “Africa’s challenges” [seminar]
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Module “Representations of Africa” (MA AFR 713, co-ordinated by Adam Jones): “Images of
Africa” and “Sources and Methods of African History and Culture” (Tilo Grätz) [both seminars]
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Module “Sprachgeschichte und Sprachkontakt” (MA AFR 714, co-ordinated by H. Ekkehard
Wolff): „Sprachgeschichte in Afrika“ (Doris Löhr) und „Sprachkontrakt in Afrika“ (H. Ekkehard
Wolff) [both seminars]
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Module „Struktur und Text: Strukturanalysen einer afrikanischen Sprache: Zulu“ (MA AFR
715, co-ordinated by H. Ekkehard Wolff): 1+2 (Axel Fleisch) [seminar]
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„Medizin und Krankheit in Afrika, 1850 bis heute: Themen und theoretische Zugänge aus Geschichtswissenschaft und Anthropologie“ (Manuela Bauche) [seminar]
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„Ethnicity in African History“ (Tilo Grätz) [seminar]
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“Regionalgeschichte seit 1900: Südliches Afrika” (Tilo Grätz) [seminar]
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„Kulturhistorisches Afrikakolloquium“ (Tilo Grätz & Adam Jones) [colloquium]
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Examenskolloquium “Politik in Afrika” (Ulf Engel)
Winter term 2007-2008
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Module “Politics in Africa I” (MA AFR 701, co-ordinated by Helmut Asche)1: “The State in Africa” (Ulf Engel), “Methods and Instruments of Development Sociology and Development Cooperation – Planning Methods for Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building” (Ulf Engel) [both
seminars]
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Module “Economics in Africa I” (MA AFR 702, co-ordinated by Helmut Asche): “Development
Economics” (Helmut Asche) [lecture and tutorial], “Economic reforms and private sector development” (Helmut Asche) [seminar]
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Module “African History” (MA AFR 703, co-ordinated by Adam Jones): “Africa in the 20th Century” (Tilo Grätz), “Social History of Africa” (Tilo Grätz) [both seminars]
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Module „Cultural Change in Africa“ (MA AFR 704, co-ordinated by Adam Jones): “Mentalities
and Missions in Africa” (Adam Jones), “The Arts in Africa” (Adam Jones) [both seminars]
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Module „Sprachbeschreibung und -dokumentation“ (MA AFR 705, co-ordinated by H. Ekkehard
Wolff): „Sprachbeschreibung Zulu und seine Nachbarn“ (Axel Fleisch), „Sprachdokumentation
Taqbaylit“ (Axel Fleisch) [both seminars]
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Module „Angewandte Afrikalinguistik und Soziolinguistik“ (MA AFR 706, co-ordinated by H.
Ekkehard Wolff): “Globalisierung vs. Indigenisierung? Die Sprachenfrage in Afrika“ (H. Ekkehard Wolff) [lecture], “Angewandte Afrikalinguistik/Soziolinguistik“ (H. Ekkehard Wolff) [seminar]
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Module „Strukturen und Texte in afrikanischen Sprachen“ (MA AFR 705, co-ordinated by H.
Ekkehard Wolff): „Strukturanalyse einer afrikanischen Sprache: Zulu“ (Axel Fleisch), „Textanalyse einer afrikanischen Sprache: Zulu“ (Axel Fleisch) [both seminars]
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[Magister] Jour fixe – Afrikalinguistisches Kolloquium (H. Ekkehard Wolff)
Teaching outside Leipzig
Tilo Grätz
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Summer term 2007 “Ethnologie und Freundschaft“, University of Hamburg
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Winter term 2007-2008 „Einführung in die Medienethnologie”, University of Hamburg
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Winter term 2007-2008 „Einführung in die Wirtschaftsethnologie”, University of HalleWittenberg
Current research projects
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Helmut Asche. China’s Engagement in Africa. Chances and risks for development (with
Margot Schüller, Friedemann Jaeger). Funded by GTZ.
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Helmut Asche. Support to Regional Integration in the East African Community (EAC). Funded
by GTZ.
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Helmut Asche. Lehrbuch “Afrikas Wirtschaft”.
1 Ulf Engel is also offering specific courses in the European Master “Global Studies” and the study programme of
the PhD Research Training Group “Critical Junctures of Globalization”.
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Ari Awagana. Loanwords in Hausa & Loanwords in Kanuri (with D. Löhr & H. E. Wolff).*
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Ari Awagana. Lexikalische Rekonstruktion der saharanischen Sprachen (Kanuri, Teda-Daza,
Beria und Berti).
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Ari Awagana. Esquisse grammaticale du boudouma suivi d’un glossaire françaisboudouma et
boudouma-français.
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Manuela Bauche. Discourse and the genesis of medical knowledge between Africa and Germany, 1884-1920.
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Utz Dornberger. Anthropogenic risk factors and management of biodiversity for rural livelihood
around East African Rain Forests (BIOTA East subproject E14c). Funded by BMBF, 20052008 (with R. Kappel and U. Rietdorf).
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Utz Dornberger. Technology-intensive suppliers in natural resource-based economies (with
Carlos T. Fuchslochner & Carlos M. Falcon).
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Ulf Engel. Governance beyond the state: State decay, extraversion and external intervention
in West Africa. Funded by DFG, 2004-2007. Research associate: Ruben Eberlein.
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Ulf Engel. Linkage strategies of political parties: Senegal and Ghana. Funded by DFG, 20052008. Research associate: Anja Osei.
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Ulf Engel. Intellectuals and violence: Mexico, Russia and South Africa, 1870-1940. Funded by
J.Ph. Reemtsma Foundation, 2005-2008 (with M. Riekenberg, Leipzig & J. Baberowski, HU
Berlin). Research associate: Christine Hentschel.
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Ulf Engel. The new African Peace and Security Architecture (with J.G. Porto, Bradford University). Partly funded by the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University 2007-2009.
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Ulf Engel. European Master “Global Studies”. Funded by the European Commission, 20052011 (with M. Middell, Leipzig).
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Ulf Engel. IPP “Transnationalisation and Regionalisation since the 18th Century”. Funded by
the DAAD and the University of Leipzig, 2001-2011 (with others).
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Ulf Engel. PhD Research Training Group 1261 „Critical Junctures of Globalisation“. Funded by
DFG, 2006-2011 (with others).
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Axel Fleisch. Development of a finite state morphological analysers for South African Ndebele
(together with Prof. Dr. Sonja Bosch, Prof. Dr. Laurette Pretorius, Prof. Dr. Albert Kotzé,
Kholisa Podile, M.A. (all UNISA). Funded by UNISA (University of South Africa, Tshwane);
Dept. of Arts and Culture, South Africa.
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Axel Fleisch. A history of the lexical meaning of spatial expressions in Nguni: comparative
semantics in Bantu (with Martina Ernszt, M.A., Universität zu Köln, MPI Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig). To be completed by Dec 2007. Funded by DFG, 2005-2007.
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Axel Fleisch. Mikrovariation sprachlicher Strukturen im Berber.
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Tilo Grätz. Medienaneignung und Öffentlichkeiten in Westafrika. Eigenmittel, Forschungskolleg kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung, Universität Hamburg.
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Tilo Grätz. Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa.
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Adam Jones. IPP “Transnationalisation and Regionalisation since the 18th Century”. Funded
by the DAAD and the University of Leipzig, 2001-2011 (with others).
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Adam Jones. Collaborative PhD Research Training Group 1261 “Critical Junctures of Globalisation”. Funded by DFG, 2006-2011 (with others).
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Adam Jones. Internet Mission Photography Archive. Funded by the Paul Getty Foundation
and the Mellon Foundation (see http://www.usc.edu/impa).
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Adam Jones. Spirituality, morality and gender. Lutheran prayer women in South Africa in the
20th Century. Funded by DFG (with K. Roller).
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Adam Jones. Collecting and preserving the records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Tanzania in Moshi, Tanzania. Funded by The British Library (London), Endangered Archives
Programme (cf. http://www.bl.uk/endangeredarchives) (with Monika Rammelt & Antonia Witt).
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Adam Jones. Creating finding aids to historical material on Africa in German mission archives
and African church archives.
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Doris Löhr. Loanwords in Hausa & Loanwords in Kanuri (with A. Awagana & H. E. Wolff).*
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Doris Löhr. Sprache, Migration und Dominanz in Borno – Sprachkontakt im Spiegel soziokultureller Umbrüche in der westlichen Tschadsee-Region.
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Doris Löhr. Malgwa-English dictionary (completed end of 2007).
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Doris Löhr. Data based analysis of the Kanuri dialect continuum.
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Ute Rietdorf. Anthropogenic risk factors and management of biodiversity for rural livelihood
around East African Rain Forests (BIOTA East subproject E14c). Funded by BMBF, 20052008 (with R. Kappel and U. Dornberger).
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H. Ekkehard Wolff. Grammatical and Lexical Contact in the Western Lake Chad Basin (with A.
Awagana, D. Löhr).
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H. Ekkerad Wolff. Issues of Applied African Sociolinguistics: the language factor in development and poverty reduction in Africa.
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H. Ekkehard Wolff. The languages of the Wandala-Lamang Group (Central Chadic): Categories and coding strategies, lexicon.
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H. Ekkehard Wolff. Loanwords in Hausa & Loanwords in Kanuri (with D. Löhr and A. Awagana).*
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H. Ekkehard Wolff. Root, pattern and prosodies in Chadic (and Afroasiatic) reconstruction.
* Part of the International project on Loanword Typology under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (co-ordinated by M. Haspelmath et al.).
Co-operation
Co-operation within the Region (Federal States of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt)
In terms of linguistic research, the Institute maintains co-operation relations with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI.EVA), in particular its Dept. of Linguistics (Professors Bernard
Comrie and Martin Haspelmath). The co-operation involves participation in regular work-in-progress
report meetings at the MPI.EVA, receiving and hosting visiting scholars, and joint post-graduate supervision/consultancy in the field of African linguistics. In 2007, three permanent staff members (Ari
Awagana, Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff) and one doctoral student (Christfried Naumann) from the
Institute were involved in an international project on Loanwork Typology organised at the MPI.EVA
which is based on the study of more than 40 languages from over the world, including several African
languages. The project will provide an internationally accessible data-base and a book publication with
chapters on loanwords in the individual languages as well as general issues regarding the borrowability of words. The chapters to be prepared by members of the Institute concern the languages Hausa,
Kanuri, and Siwi (Berber).
International university partnerships
The Institute maintains three university-to-university partnerships in Africa: Addis Ababa (Ethiopia),
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and Stellenbosch (South Africa).
The University of Stellenbosch is an external partner of the European Master “Global Studies” consortium and has been declared the University of Leipzig’s strategic partner in Africa South of the Sahara.
Prof. Dr. emer. Colin McCarthy, Department of Economics, attended the International Workshop on
“Economic Partnerships Agreements” in November. The Dean of Arts and Social Science from Stellenbosch, Prof. Dr. Hennie Kotzé, and Prof. Dr. Scarlett Cornelissen, Department of Political Science,
visited Leipzig in December 2007; Ulf Engel has been to Stellenbosch in May 2007. Co-operation talks
held in Leipzig in December 2007 were attended by the Vice-Rector Research, Prof. Dr. Martin
Schlegel. In terms of student mobility, five students from the Master Global Studies went for a term to
Stellenbosch during the winter term 2007-2008. And two of our MA students spend their third study
abroad term in South Africa, using Stellenbosch as a hub.
The Institute is also involved in departmental twinning agreements between the University of Leipzig
and universities in Africa such as the Dept. of African Languages at the University of Stellenbosch and
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the Dept. of African Languages at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, the Dept. of Linguistics at
the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and the Institute of Languages at Makerere University in
Kampala, Uganda.
Erasmus / Socrates
Under the European Erasmus / Socrates programme the Institute has established institutional links
with a number of European universities to allow for student and teacher mobility. Agreements have
been signed with Bordeaux, Copenhagen, Dalarna, Helsinki, Lisbon, London, Naples, Nice, Paris 7,
Roskilde, Vienna, and Warsaw. The contacts are co-ordinated by Doris Löhr (for African languages
and linguistics) and Ulf Engel (for the social sciences and history / culture).
With the introduction of the Master “African Studies” all these agreements are under review with a
view to increasing both the number of agreements and the number of students eligible for mobility.
During the academic year 2007-2008 one student from the Magister programme went to Copenhagen,
and in March 2007 Ulf Engel visited Copenhagen to renew the existing agreement and conclude a
new agreement with the University of Roskilde. Two doctoral students from the PhD Research Training Group “Critical Junctures of Globalisation” – Joël Glasman and Jenny Kuhlmann – will make use of
co-tutelle opportunities, thus also bringing a new dimension to our co-operation with Paris and
Roskilde respectively.
SEPT
The International SEPT Program was established in Vietnam in 2006. In close cooperation with Hanoi
University of Technology (HUT), the Centre for Research and Consulting on Management (CRC) took
in 17 students. In 2007, the second intake of 24 students began its post graduate education. In addition, over 50 students were applying for the following batch which is planned for 2008.
SEPT also continued its collaboration with a number of institutes of higher education and universities
in different countries with regard to joint research projects, the design of training courses and consultancy.
Among them are the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Nairobi, Kenya; the
Institute for Finance Management (IFM) of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; the Kenyatta University Nairobi,
Kenya and the Universidad de Chile.
European Master “Global Studies”
Again, the lecturers of the Institute made a strong contribution to the European Master “Global Studies”. Ulf Engel continued to serve as Director of Studies of the Leipzig-part of this European Commission-supported programme.
AEGIS
The Institute is an active member of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies AEGIS; for
details see http://www.aegis-eu.org) for eight years now. AEGIS is a European network of university
and non-university African Studies centres in eleven countries and with 22 members.
The Institute will host the 3rd European Conference in African Studies (ECAS 3) to be held in Leipzig in
June 2009, the year of the university’s 600th anniversary.
Ulf Engel is a board member of AEGIS. Robert Kappel – who is still on leave until 2009 as president of
the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg) – is on the editorial board of the AEGIS
publication series with Brill Academic Publishers.
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Guest researchers & lecturers
Dr. Lize Kriel (Department of History, University of Pretoria) completed her five-month stay at the Institute as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, conducting research on “The
mission station as a converging space for the shaping of women's identities in transcultural encounters: between Berlin and Blauberg".
Guest lectures at the Institute
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Kelly Askew, University of Michigan. Tanzanian Ujamaa Villages Today – Moralizing and Memorializing the Collective.
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Joseph Atoyebi, MPI.EVA, Leipzig. Extents of bidirectional vowel harmony spread in Oko. 31
January.
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Scarlett Cornelissen, Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch. The Power
Struggle within the ANC. 14 December.
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Silvia Dolz, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden. Kunst aus Benin in Dresden.
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Peter Geschiere, Universiteit van Amsterdam. Autochthony, Citizenship and Exclusion – New
Modes in the Politics of Belonging in Africa and Europe.
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Christa König, Universität Frankfurt/Main, Universität zu Köln. „Kasus“ in afrikanischen Sprachen – Ergativität. 26 November.
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Roman Loimeier, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Bewältigung der Revolution in Zanzibar.
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (University of California at Irvine). Language and African Identity. 1 November.
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Mari K. Webel, Columbia University, New York. Locating the Laboratory – Tropical Medicine,
German Imperialism, and Robert Koch's Sleeping Sickness Research in the Lake Victoria Region, 1898-1914.
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Ludger Wimmelbücker, Hamburg. Erinnerungen an Hungersnot in der Kilimanjaro-Region.
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On 20-21 April the institute hosted the International Workshop “Early Nigerian
(Kanuri/Kanembu) Qur’anic Manuscripts”. 2nd Meeting of specialists. Two papers were discussed as presented by Dmitry Bondarev: (1) The functional distribution of nominal marking in
archaic Kanembu and modern Kanuri: from subject-marking to agent-marking, (2) NP constituent order in a written variety of Kanembu: an archaic feature or scribal convention?
Personnel
Dr. Axel Fleisch joined the Institute’s staff on 1 February 2007. He is an expert on Bantu languages
with expertise also in Berber and presently works in the fields of semantics and cognitive linguistics
based on linguistic field work in Southern Africa. In January 2008 he has left the Institute for a professorship at the University of Helsinki.
Daniela Puhrsch, MA, joined in October 2007 as a part-time assistant for the DAAD-sponsored German-African Network of Alumni and Alumnae on “Multilingualism and Language Politics in Africa“, cf.
below.
Working in the University of Leipzig
On 1 February, Helmut Asche routinely took over the post of the Institute’s Managing Director from H.
Ekkehard Wolff. During the first half of 2007 he participated in topical preparations and sessions of the
Africa-related activities surrounding the German G8/EU presidency (among them, the BMZ/World
Bank Africa Forum in Berlin, 7 May). On duty for SEPT, he taught a module of this SME-specialised
master programme in Hanoi (7 March), coupled with work for the GTZ economic advisory programme
to the government of Vietnam.
In terms of teaching in the BA programmes, the Institute co-operates across faculties with the “Institut
für Linguistik” whose students may chose two elective modules (at 10 credit points each) from those
offered by the Institute. From the academic year 2007-2008, several modules offered at the Institute of
African Studies will also be eligible for students of the BA programme “Ethnology”.
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Ari Awagana, Axel Fleisch and H. Ekkehard Wolff have organised the CAMPUS 2007 Exhibition/Public Presentation on “Multilingualism and ‘Development’ in Africa” (July 7), with reference to the
occasion of the 2006/2007 “Year of African Languages” declared by the African Union.
Ulf Engel is Director of Studies of two MA programmes, the Master “African Studies” and the European Master “Global Studies”. He is also spokesperson of the DFG-funded PhD Research Training
Group 1261 “Critical Junctures of Globalisation”. In this capacity he is a member of the board of the
RAL’s Graduate Centre Social Sciences and Humanities and vice-spokesperson of the Graduate
School “Understanding Space and Territorialisation in the 21st Century”. He is also on the board of the
International PhD Training Programme “Transnationalisation and Regionalisation from the 18th Century”. Ulf Engel co-authored the University of Leipzig’s application under the European Union’s “External Windows” programme in support of the EU Master programme “Global Studies”. While the general
programme was approved for five years (2005/2006 to 2009/2010), the external mobility scheme initially was granted for only three years (with M. Middell). Engel co-edits the book series “Global History
and International Studies” (with F. Hadler and M. Middell, Leipzig: Universitätsverlag), the journal
“Comparativ. Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsanalyse“ (with M. Middell et al., Leipzig), and the Working Paper Series of the Research Academy Leipzig’s Graduate
School „Understanding Space and Territorialization in the 21st Century“ (with M. Middell).
Utz Dornberger is Director of Studies of the Master programme Small Enterprise Promotion and Training. He is also on the board of the International PhD Training Programme “Transnationalisation and
Regionalisation from the 18th Century”. In co-operation with the chair of Marketing of the University of
Leipzig and the Leipzig Graduate School of Management (HHL), SEPT has begun a project for fostering the entrepreneurial-spirit of students, employees and alumni from all Universities in Leipzig.
In co-operation with the chair of Marketing of the University of Leipzig and the Leipzig Graduate
School of Management (HHL) SEPT has continued a project for fostering the entrepreneurial-spirit of
students, employees and alumni from all Universities in Leipzig. SMILE (Self-Management Initiative
Leipzig) which began in April 2006 is sponsored by the European Social Fond and the Saxon Ministry
of Economics and Work. SMILE offers workshops, lectures and tutorials for the discovery and development of entrepreneurship capabilities and accompanies the participants in the process of starting-up
a firm or getting prepared for being a self-employed professional. In 2007, SMILE had more than
1.300 participants. Due to its innovative features, SMILE was awarded several prizes. Among them
the 1st rank in Futuresax Phase II (Category: Services) and the Special Award for the most active institution of higher education in Futuresax Phase III.
Axel Fleisch and H. Ekkehard Wolff are actively supporting an inter-faculty initiative towards the establishment of a sixth “Profilbildender Forschungsbereich” at the University of Leipzig under the topic
“Globalizing Areas”; a constitutive workshop was held on 15 December.
Adam Jones continued his work as chairman of the examinations councils for Area Studies (Regionalwissenschaften) and for the European Master “Global Studies”. He remained deputy chairman of the
Zentrum für Frauen- und Geschlechterstudien (Centre for Gender Studies). He is also on the board of
the International PhD Training Programme “Transnationalisation and Regionalisation from the 18th
Century”.
Doris Löhr is co-ordinator of the BA programme „Afrikastudien”, the chairperson of the Faculty’s
“Studienkommission Afrikanistik” as well as co-ordinator of the Socrates/Erasmus programme (African
languages and linguistics).
H. Ekkehard Wolff served as faculty-external member of two finding commissions for professorships in
the Faculty of Philology (Translation Science, Romance Studies). Co-operation across faculties has
further been strengthened by launching a joint publication series “Sprache – Kultur – Gesellschaft
(Beiträge zu einer modernen Sozio- und Ethnolinguistik)” co-edited by Sabine Bastian (Romance
Studies) and H. Ekkehard Wolff (African Studies).
H. Ekkehard Wolff has initiated, together with Prof. Aoussine Seddiki (University of Oran, Algeria) and
Dr. Elisabeth Müller (University of Nairobi, Kenya), the creation of a thematic Alumni Network which is
sponsored for three years (2007-2009) by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and is
jointly co-ordinated by H. Ekkehard Wolff and Prof. Dr. Claus Altmayer (Herder-Institute, University of
Leipzig), i.e. the German-African Network of Alumni on „Multilingualism and Language Politics in Africa“ (Leipzig, Nairobi, Oran, Stellenbosch). The network is targeted at academics from Africa who
have spent a minimum of three months at a German university (both in former East and West Germany) during their educational or academic career, and who could be interested in issues of language
politics, foreign language learning, and the enhancement of multilingualism in the African and European context.
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Serving the African Studies community
Abdilatif Abdalla is Leipzig co-ordinator and facilitator for the DAAD language programme for Kiswahili
in Zanzibar, Tanzania.
Helmut Asche is chair of the advisory board of the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung (ZIAF)
at the Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. He and Ulf Engel organised an international workshop on the Economic Partnership Agreements negotiated between the European Union
and the ACP countries which was co-financed by the DFG PhD Research training Group “Critical
Junctures of Globalisation”, the German Ministry of Development Co-operation and the German Aid
Agency GTZ. The workshop was held on 20-21 November at the University’s guest house Villa Tillmanns. It was attended by academics from Africa and Europe, from practitioners and representatives
of advocacy NGOs or think tanks. The revised papers of this workshop will be published in 2008 with
the Universitätsverlag Leipzig.
Ari Awagana is Leipzig co-ordinator and facilitator for the DAAD language programme for Hausa in
Azare, Nigeria.
Manuela Bauche participated in the organisation of the junior researchers' conference “Researching
Africa | Afrika forschen. Practice & Methods of Research in Africa”. The conference was held at the
University of Bonn on 23-24 June and was financially supported by the VAD e.V., the GTZ and the
Geographical Institute of the University of Bonn. It aimed at providing young academics working on
and in Africa with a forum in which particular challenges of research in Africa could be discussed. For
a detailed report and the papers see: www.vad-ev.de.
Ulf Engel serves on the Academic Advisory Council of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (Hamburg) and the North-South Advisory Council of the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Berlin). He is an
elected member of the board of the Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS, Leiden).
He is also external referee for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the German Foundation for Peace Research (Osnabrück), the German Research Foundation DFG (Bonn), the Volkswagen Foundation (Hannover) and the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (Bonn). He co-edits the
book series “Politics and Economics in Africa” (with R. Kappel, Münster etc.: Lit-Verlag). Ulf Engel also
participates in the Africa initiative of the President of the Federal Republic, Dr. Horst Köhler – “Partnership with Africa”. At the 3rd Africa Forum, held at Kloster Eberbach on 3-5 November, Ulf Engel
moderated the workshop “The individual and the state in globalisation” in which, among others, the
Presidents of Botswana, Nigeria and Madagascar participated. He continued to interact regularly with
the German Foreign Office Africa Desk and other players involved in Germany’s Africa policy. Inter
alia, he participated in the annual meeting of the Foreign Office’s Africa Expert Round Table where he
delivered the key note on the role of the AU and the RECs in conflict prevention resolution and management.
Axel Fleisch is co-editor of the monograph series “Southern African Languages and Cultures” (Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag).
In October 2007 Tilo Grätz was elected chairman of the African Studies Group of the German Anthropological Association (Regionalgruppe Afrika, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde).
Adam Jones continued to serve as a member of council of the International African Institute
(http://www.iaionthe.net). As a member of the main committee of the VAD (German African Studies
Association/Vereinigung von Afrikanisten in Deutschland e. V.). He participated in the selection committees for professorships of African History at the Humboldt University (Berlin) and the University of
Bayreuth. An international workshop entitled "Religious Space and the Shaping of Gender Identities in
Transcultural Encounters", organised by Adam Jones, was held on 5-6 January at the Institute under
the auspices of the DFG-funded Research Training Group "Critical Junctures of Globalisation" (Bruchzonen der Globalisierung). A selection of the papers will appear in the journal Comparativ in 2008.
Doris Löhr is a member of the Board Fachverband Afrikanistik and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (German Cognitive Linguistics Association) as well as the Society for Endangered
Languages (GBS). She is a co-ordinator of the European branch of the Borno Museum Society’s
Newsletter, and also an associated member of the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Afrikaforschung
(ZIAF), University of Frankfurt / Main. She organised the 2nd Workshop on Early Nigerian Koranic
manuscripts: an interdisciplinary study of the Kanuri glosses and Arabic commentaries held at the
University of Leipzig, 20-21 April.
H. Ekkehard Wolff has served as member of a BA/MA curricula accreditation commission in African
Studies and related fields at the University of Cologne for the AQAS accreditation agency (January
2007). He works as an occasional reviewer for Alexander v. Humboldt-Foundation, DAAD, DFG,
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Volkswagen Foundation. He was external member of the finding commission for the Chair of African
Linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In addition he is a member of the Standing Committee
of the World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL), the permanent committee of the Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages (BICCL) and the Council of the West African Linguistic Society (WALS/SLAO). He further serves on the Advisory Board of the Association for the Development of African Languages in Science and Technology (ADALEST). He is an ordinary member of
the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), the African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX), the Fachverband Afrikanistik; he occasionally works as International Advisor of the
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL, Africa). H. Ekkehard Wolff is co-editor of the following monographic series: Afrikanistische Forschungen; Chadic linguistics / Linguistique tchadique / Tschadistik
(both Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe); Beiträge zur Afrikanistik (Münster, Hamburg: Lit); and Sprache – Kultur – Gesellschaft (Beiträge zu einer modernen Sozio- und Ethnolinguistik) (Munich: Martin Meidenbauer). He is member of the following editorial boards of international journals: Afrika und Übersee
(Hamburg), ILHAMU (Egerton University, Kenya), Journal of Languages and Contact: Evolution of
languages, contact and discourse (Paris-Nice) and Journal of West African Languages (Dallas, TX).
Publications
Helmut Asche
Boom ohne die Deutschen, Die Zeit, Nr. 6, 1.2.2007, 30.
Chinas Bedeutung für Afrika, Orientierungen zur Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik (1) 111, 61-66
(with Susanne Schmutzer).
China als neue Kolonialmacht in Afrika? Umstrittene Strategien der Ressourcensicherung, China aktuell – Journal of Current Chinese Affairs (2) 67-78 (with Margot Schüller).
China in Afrika – (Ressourcen-)Fluch oder Segen?, Entwicklung und Ländlicher Raum 41 (4) 7-8 [englisch version: China in Africa – Resource Curse or Blessing?, Agriculture & rural development, ibidem.].
Africa’s Growth, Development Aid and the European Union. In J. Müller and M. Reder (eds.) Africa
and Europe – Co-operation in a Globalized World, Scribani – European Jesuit Network. Münster, 5176 (with Axel Biallas).
[Rezension:] Paul Rusesabagina, Ein gewöhnlicher Mensch. Die wahre Geschichte hinter „Hotel Ruanda“ (Berlin Verlag 2006), EINS Entwicklungspolitik (19-20) 61f.
Ari Awagana
Extension verbale en Buduma. In H. Tourneux (ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV. Comparative and
Descriptive Studies (Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique tchadique – Tschadistik; 5). Köln: Rüdiger
Köppe.
Manuela Bauche
Trypanosomen und Tinbeef. Medizinisches Wissen um Schlafkrankheit zwischen Kamerun und
Deutschland, 1910-1914. In M. Seifert et al. (eds.) Beiträge zur 1. Kölner Afrikawissenschaftlichen
Nachwuchstagung (KANT I); http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/afrikanistik/kant/data/ BM1_kant1.pdf.
Ulf Engel
(eds.) African Alternatives (= Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies). Leiden: Brill Academic
Publishers (with P. Chabal & L. de Haan).
„I will not recognise East Germany just because Bonn is stupid.“ Anerkennungsdiplomatie in Tanzania
1964-1965. In U. van der Heyden (Hrsg.) DDR und Tanzania. Münster etc.: Lit-Verlag.
Germany. Renaissance Reloaded. In C. Legum (ed.) Africa Contemporary Record. 28 (2001-2002).
New York: Africana Publishing Company (Holmes & Meier Publishers).
[Rezension] Sebastian Conrad 2006. Globalisierung und Nation im Deutschen Kaiserreich. München:
C.H. Beck, H-Soz-Kult (14 September).
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Westafrikanischer Hegemon oder Scheinriese? Nigeria in der internationalen Politik, GIGA Focus
Afrika.
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit Nigeria – Eine Analyse aus der Ankerlandperspektive (= DIE Discussion Paper 13/2007). Bonn: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (unter Mitwirkung von K.
Kuhlmann).
Neopatrimonialism reconsidered – Critical review and elaboration of an elusive concept, Journal of
Commonwealth and Comparative Studies 45 (1) 95-119 (with G. Erdmann).
[Rezension] Patrick Chabal & Jean-Pascal Daloz 2006. Culture Troubles. London: Hurst, H-Soz-Kult
(12 January).
Axel Fleisch
Focus types, word order and case-marking in Taqbaylit and Tashelhit Berber. In I. Fiedler and A.
Schwarz (eds.) Information Structure in African Languages (= Typological Studies in Language).
Amsterdam, Philadelphia PA: John Benjamins (with Amina Mettouchi).
Tilo Grätz
Vigilante groups and the state in West Africa. In K. von Benda-Beckmann and F. Pirie (eds.) Order
and disorder: anthropological perspectives. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Christine Hentschel
Making (In)visible. CCTV, „living cameras,“ and their objects in a Post-Apartheid Metropolis. International Criminal Justice Review 17 (4).
Adam Jones
Integration und Exklusion: Eine westafrikanische Familie und die Weltwirtschaft, 1780-1900. In M.A.
Denzel (Hrsg.) Vom Welthandel des 18. Jahrhunderts zur Globalisierung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 67-73.
René Baesjou (1931-2006), Ghana Studies Council Newsletter.
Doris Löhr
Predication focus in Malgwa. In H. Tourneux (ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV. Comparative and
Descriptive Studies (= Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique tchadique – Tschadistik; 5). Köln: Rüdiger
Köppe.
Nigerian Kanuri (Sub-)Dialects Reconsidered – a Corpus-based Approach. In D.L. Payne & M. Reh
(eds.) Advances in Nilo-Saharan Linguistics. Proceedings of the 8th Nilo-Saharan Linguistics Colloquium, University of Hamburg, August 22-25, 2001. Köln: Köppe, 165-182.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
Die afrikanischen Sprachen im 21. Jahrhundert: Herausforderungen an Politik und Wissenschaft,
Jahrbuch für Europäische Überseegeschichte 7, 189-219.
Reduplication, Aspect, and Predication Focus in Central Chadic: What Lamang and Hdi tell about
Malgwa verb morphology. In H. Tourneux (ed.) Topics in Chadic Linguistics IV. Comparative and Descriptive Studies (= Chadic Linguistics – Linguistique tchadique – Tschadistik; 5). Köln: Rüdiger
Köppe.
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Lectures & Presentations
Helmut Asche
Keynote Speaker at the International Conference “China in Africa: Who benefits?” J.W.GoetheUniversity Frankfurt/M. 14-15 December.
Panel Chair „Africa Conference“ Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Deutscher Bundestag. Berlin, 30 November.
Chair International Workshop “Negotiating Regions: The Economic Partnership Agreements between
the EU and Africa”. University of Leipzig, 20-21 November (with U.Engel), and presentation: “Preserving Africa’s Economic Policy Space in Trade Negotiations”.
Careers for Africa - Reasons for economic self-esteem, International Training for African Diplomats,
German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). Berlin, 8 November.
Panelist „Business and MDG“. Presented at the 12th International Business Forum, World Bank / InWent. Washington DC, 10 October.
Einführung „Deutsche Investitionen in Afrika“, in: Fachgespräch FDP-Fraktion “Afrika als Investitionsstandort – Verzahnung von Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und Außenwirtschaftsförderung“, Deutscher
Bundestag. Berlin, 29 October.
Afrika – Der geplünderte Kontinent ? Hessische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, International
School Seeheim-Jugenheim. 27 September.
Chair “Development Determinants” Session, at PEGNet Conference, Kiel Institute/BMZ/GTZ. Berlin 67 September.
Direct Interventions Strengthening the Ability of the Poor to Participate in the Economy. Presentation
held at the International Conference “Value Chains for Broad-based Development” 30 May – 1 June.
Berlin (with Heike Hoeffler).
Area Studies and Economics of Sub-Saharan Africa, ACAS workshop German Institute for Global and
Area Studies (GIGA). Hamburg, 13 April.
Ist Afrika besser als sein Ruf? Hessische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung, Fritjof-NansenAkademie. Ingelheim, 17 March.
Chancen privatwirtschaftlichen Engagements in Afrika. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Entwicklungspolitik der
Deutschen Wirtschaft, BDI. Berlin, 30 January.
China in Afrika. Chancen und Risiken für Entwicklung. Bundesministerium für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung. Bonn, 10 January (with Margot Schüller).
“Prof Asche on air”
Television and radio appearances 2007 in: Deutschlandfunk, ZDF heute-journal, NTV, Deutsche Welle
(Voice of Germany), MDR, Radio Mephisto; on the G8 summit, Africa’s economic perspectives, China
and Africa, Burkina (20th anniv. of Pres. Sankara’s death).
Ari Awagana
Lexikalische Rekonstruktion der saharanischen Sprachen. Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Berlin, 13. November.
Loanwords in Hausa. Results from the Loanword typology project. 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Bayreuth, 30-31 October (with Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff).
La reconstruction lexicale du saharien. 10th Nilosarahan linguistics Colloquium. Paris, 22-24 August.
Skizze einer lexikalischen Rekonstruktion der saharanischen Sprachen. Afrikanistentag 2007. Wien,
23.-25. Juli.
Manuela Bauche
What is Colonial about Malaria Control? Race, Class and Medical Profession between German Metropole and Colonies. Paper presented at "Crossing German Borders. New Approaches to German
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Transnational Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". University of Cambridge, 10-11
September.
Wissenschaft, Metropole, Kolonie. Medizinisches Wissen zwischen Deutschland und Afrika, ca. 18801920. Paper presented at the winter school of the PhD study programme "Transnationalisation und
Regionalisation from the 18th Century to the Present" and of the Research Training Group "Critical
Junctures of Globalization". University of Leipzig, 5-6 February.
Ulf Engel
Chair International Workshop “Negotiating Regions: The Economic Partnership Agreements between
the EU and Africa”. University of Leipzig, 20-21 November (with H. Asche).
Chair Workshop “The State in Globalisation”. 3. Konferenz der Initiative des Bundespräsidenten “Partnerschaft mit Afrika”. Kloster Eberbach, 3. November.
Chair International Worksop “Writing Africa into Transnational History”. Jointly organised by the universities of Leipzig and Humboldt-Berlin at Columbia University. New York, 17 October.
Einführung „Die Rolle der AU und Regionalorganisationen im Konfliktmanagement“. AfrikaGesprächskreis des Auswärtigen Amts. Berlin, 5. Oktober.
Recent trends in migration studies. Summer School „Mobility and Cultural Exchange“ der Research
Academy Leipzig und des Zentrums für Höhere Studien. Leipzig, 25. September.
Politische Wissenschaft und der Spatial Turn. Round Table Statement auf der Summer School „Mobility and Cultural Exchange“ der Research Academy Leipzig und des Zentrums für Höhere Studien.
Leipzig, 24. September.
Nigeria ein demokratisches Ankerland? – Konsequenzen für die deutsche Politik. Vortrag bei der Initiative Südliches Afrika (INISA), Afrika-Haus Berlin. Berlin, 18. September.
Current research on Global Studies at the University of Leipzig. Presentation at the Erasmus Mundus
European Master “Global Studies Summer School held 26-31 July at the University of Wrocław. Wrocław, 28 July (with M. Middell).
Chair ‘Towards a more integrated programme’. Erasmus Mundus European Master ‘Global Studies’
Summer School held 26-31 July at the University of Wrocław. Wrocław, 27 July.
Africa in International Relations: Theorizing globalization and Africa. Willy Brandt Centre at the University of Wrocław. Wrocław, 26 July.
Africa in International Relations: Framing and financing development assistance (part I and II). Willy
Brandt Centre at the University of Wrocław. Wrocław, 11-12 June.
Borders, Boundaries and Bounding: Examples from South African history. Presentation at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study. Stellenbosch, 25 May.
Introducing the instrument of DFG International Research Training Groups. Stellenbosch Institute for
Advanced Study. Stellenbosch, 25 May.
Sektionsleiter auf dem Geburtstagskolloquium für Hartmut Elsenhans „Bruchzonen der Globalisierung
– Entgrenzte Welten vs. begrenzte Identitäten?“. Leipzig, 11. Mai.
Borders, Boundaries and Bounding: Examples from South African history. Vortrag auf dem Workshop
“Die Rolle von Grenzen in einer transnationalen Geschichte. Ostmitteleuropa im weltweiten Vergleich“.
Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas an der Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, 19. April.
African Studies and the Critical Junctures of Globalization. Lecture at the Centre of African Studies,
University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, 29 March.
‘Global Studies’ at Leipzig University: An internationalised Master programme. Statement at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies International Workshop ‘Global and Transnational
Studies Network’. Santa Barbara CA, 19 February.
Statement auf dem Workshop “Intellektuelle und Unterschichtengewalt: Russland, Mexiko, Südafrika,
1870-1940”. Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung. Hamburg, 9. Februar.
Das DFG-Graduiertenkolleg “Bruchzonen der Globalisierung” in der Strategie der Geistes- und
Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Leipzig. Universität Leipzig, 6. Februar.
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The future of cooperation between the universities of Leipzig and Stellenbosch in the humanities and
social sciences. Südafrika-Symposium. Leipzig, 1 February.
“Prof Engel on air”
Radio and newspapers interviews in: ARD Aktuell, Deutschlandfunk, Dom Radio zu Köln, Geo,
Hessischer Rundfunk, Leipziger Blätter, MDR Sachsen Aktuell, Reuters, Die Zeit – on the G8 summit,
the conflict in Darfur / Sudan, the Nigerian elections, the role of Gaddafi in Africa, the new study programmes at the University of Leipzig, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and the soccer cup 2010.
Axel Fleisch
Directional clitics and their interaction with motion verbs in Berber. Workshop “The syntax and semantics of motion in African languages. University of Cologne, 21 September.
Argumentstruktur und Kasusmarkierung im Berber. Afrikanistentag. University of Vienna, 25 July.
Caracterització de la llengua amaziga. Summer school course “Del Nil a l’Atlàntic i de la Mediterrània
al Sàhara : Qui són els amazics?” University of Barcelona, 16 July.
Teaching Zulu locative constructions. Workshop on Zulu language instruction. SOAS, London, 21
June.
Comparative semantics of Nguni locative constructions. Max-Planck-Institute EVA, Leipzig, 19 June.
Kontextbedingte Bedeutungsschwankungen oder Polysemie? Diachrone Gesichtspunkte der Lesartenunterscheidungen räumlicher Präpositionen im Nguni. University of Hamburg, 14. Juni.
How cognitive semantics relate to comparative linguistics: A case study from Nguni (S-Bantu). 2nd
International Conference on African Studies. University of Western Bohemia, Pilsen, 28 April.
Language history in SE Angola. The Ngangela-Nyemba dialect cluster. ACACIA International Coloquium “Language and Ethnohistory in Southern Africa”, Königswinter, 29 March.
Polysemy: semantic vagueness versus sense autonomy. University of Helsinki, 8 March.
Die linguistische Situation in Südafrika. Institut für Biologie, University of Leipzig. 8 February.
Tilo Grätz
Changing media scapes, moral spaces and knowledge cultures in the Republic of Benin. DGVTagung, Workshop Medienethnologie. Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 3 October.
Colonial gold mining in Northern Benin: Forced labour, traumata and the politics of remembering the
past.
Erinnerungen an Zwangsarbeit in Dahomey, 1939-1945, Kulturhistorisches Colloquium, Institut für
Afrikanistik, Universität Leipzig. Leipzig, 9 July.
Medienpluralismus und Medienaneignung in Benin. Kongress Kulturwissenschaftliche Technikforschung, Universität Hamburg. Hamburg, 1 June.
Itinerant gold miners and life in mining camps at a new West African frontier. Cadbury workshop, Centre of West African Studies. University of Birmingham, 19 May.
Christine Hentschel
Governing Crime in “liquid spaces”. Durban, South Africa, US African Studies Association Annual
Conference. New York, 18 October.
Innovating Durban. Security and the creative use of urban space. Workshop “Innovations in Urban
Security Governance”. Centre of Criminology, Cape Town, 18 September.
Gold and Pirates. Governing security in prestigous business spaces, 3rd European Conference on
African Studies. Leiden, 11 July (with Jana Hönke).
„Being shot every day“. Pässe, Bierhallen und Gewalt im „dunklen Durban“, 1929-30. Workshop „Intellektuelle und Unterschichtengewalt in staatsfernen Räumen“, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.
Hamburg, 9 February.
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Adam Jones
Integration und Exklusion: Christianus Jacob Protten Africanus in Europa und Westafrika 1715-69th
Conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde. Halle/Saale, 4 October.
European sources for Benin and its art in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Symposium "Benin Könige und Rituale. Höfische Kunst aus Nigeria". Vienna, 9 May.
Maasai und Mission, Colloquium "Law and Religion. Transitions and Effects in Nomad-Sedentary Relations". Halle/Saale, 4 May.
Olfert Dapper: Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten (1668). Basler Afrika-Bibliografien (lecture
series: "Great Books on Africa"). Basel, 3 April.
Doris Löhr
Focus & Aspect in Kanuri. 3rd Workshop on Early Nigerian Qur'anic manuscripts: an interdisciplinary
study of the Kanuri glosses and Arabic commentaries, Department of the Languages and Cultures of
Africa. SOAS, London 29-30 November.
Loanwords in Hausa. Results from the Loanword typology project, 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Bayreuth, 30-31 October (with Ari Awagana and H. Ekkehard Wolff).
Turn allocation in Kanuri interviews. 10th Nilosarahan linguistics Colloquium. Paris, 22-24 August.
Zwischen Fokus & Diskurs – der Multifunktions-Marker diyé im Kanuri. Afrikanistentag, Wien, 23.-25.
Juli.
Kanuri-Lehnwortforschung innerhalb des Loanword Typology Projects (MPI Leipzig). Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, 12. Juni.
Ute Rietdorf
Biodiversity Protection and Economic Development in Kakamega District, Kenya: The Challenge to
Social Capital; Paper presented at the Ninth Annual BIOECON Conference on ‘Economics and Institutions for Biodiversity Conservation’, Kings College Cambridge, 20-21 September 2007.
H. Ekkehard Wolff
Die Verarbeitung der Globalisierung am Beispiel afrikanischer Länder. Expertengespräch „Die Grenzen der Philologien. Sprachen im Spannungsfeld zwischen globalen und nationalen Herausforderungen“. Veranstaltung im „Jahr der Geisteswissenschaften“. FU [Free University of] Berlin and BMBF
[Federal Ministry for Education and Research], 6 December.
Another look at ‘Internal a’ plurals in Chadic. Paper presented at the 4th Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages. Bayreuth, 30 October.
Die so genannten “internal a” Plurale im Tschadischen und Afroasiatischen. Afrikalinguistisches Kolloquium. Leipzig, 17 October.
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ULPA – University of Leipzig Papers on Africa
Sub-series History and Culture in Africa (edited by A. Jones)
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No. 13: Kindheit und Bekehrung in Nord-Tanzania: Aufsätze von Afrikanern aus dem ehemaligen Deutsch-Ostafrika vom Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Sub-series Languages and Literatures (edited by H.E. Wolff).
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No 29: Tom Güldemann. Clicks, genetics, and “proto-world” from a linguistic perspective.
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No 30: Mahaman Bachir Attouman. Le passif en hawsa : une nouvelle approche.
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No 31: Henri Gadou. Autour de quelques processus phonologiques et syntaxiques du yowlè,
lange mande-sud de Côte d’Ivoire.
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No 32: Zakaria Fadoul Khidir. La dénomination des couleurs chez les Beri du Tchad.
Sub-Series Leipziger Arbeiten zur Geschichte und Kultur in Afrika (edited by A. Jones)
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No. 12: Kathrin Fritsch. Die Leipziger Baumwoll- und Sisalplantagen in Deutsch-Ostafrika.
Sub-Series Mission Archives (edited by Adam Jones)
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No. 28: Monika Rammelt und Antonia Witt. Digitized Records of the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Tanzania in Moshi.
Sub-series Politics and Economics (edited by U. Engel, R. Kappel & U. Rietdorf)
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No. 79: Cyril I. Obi. West African Security in the Context of the Global War on Terror: Some
Reflections.
No. 80: Melle Leenstra. Beyond the Façade: Neopatrominalism and the Zambian state.
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