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Find ASCL research staff with country-specific or regional knowledge of Africa. For all media enquiries please contact our Press officers.

Click on the country names on the right to see experts, research projects and a selection of publications on the same page. You can also find ASCL Community members or PhD students with country-specific or thematic expertise. 


Ola Abagun (Project researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda

Prof. Dr. Jan Abbink (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Ethiopia, Somalia, Northeast Africa, Horn of Africa, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Eritrea

Gaddafi Abubakar (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria

Rashida Adum-Atta (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana

Dr. Akinyinka Akinyoade (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
West Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Tanzania

Bruno Allahissem (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Chad, Sahel

Dr. Anika Altaf (Project researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Benin, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya

Dr. Azeb Amha (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Ethiopia

Asrat Mulat Asegie (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ethiopia

Jeleel Abiola Balyaminu (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria

Dr. Fatima Bapumia (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Zanzibar

Prof. Dr. Wouter van Beek (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
Cameroon, Mali, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa

Dr. Lidewyde Berckmoes (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Rwanda, Burundi, Great Lakes

Prof. Dr. Mirjam de Bruijn (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Mali, Sahel, West Africa

Luca Bruls (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Mali

Nilza César (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Mozambique

Rishuai Chen (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria, Senegal

Tinashe Chimbidzikai (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Zimbabwe, South Africa

Modibo Galy Cissé (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Mali

Rebecca Bakari Cudjoe (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana

Martin Luther Darko (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana

Yusuf Daud (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Somalia

Prof. Dr. Marleen Dekker (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Zambia

Paul Deutschmann (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire

Prof. Dr. Ton Dietz (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana, Kenya, South Africa

Prof. Dr. Rijk van Dijk (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Botswana, Ghana, Malawi

Madi Ditmars (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa

Dr. Michel Doortmont (Project researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, South Africa

Daphne Engel (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Sahel, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia

Leonor Faber-Jonker (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Namibia

Dr. Dick Foeken (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya

Jeffrey Fonk (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa, Southern Africa

Joseph Fosu-Ankrah (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana

Antonio Frank (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Angola

Prof. Dr. Jan-Bart Gewald (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Lesotho

Marloes Hamelink (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Zanzibar

Dr. Abdourahmane Idrissa (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Niger, Sahel, Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria

Prof. Dr. Mayke Kaag (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Senegal, Chad, West Africa

Dr. Agnieszka Kazimierczuk (Project researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya

Dr. Ineke van Kessel (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana, Southern Africa, South Africa

Kauthar Khamis (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana

Dr. Bill Kinsey (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
Zimbabwe

Alice Mapenzi Kubo (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya, Ghana

Dr. André Leliveld (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
East Africa

Peter Lindhoud (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Zambia

Alliance Mango Kubota (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Victoria Manya (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria, Ghana, Sudan

Koundja Mayoubila (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Chad

Kim Molenaar (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa, Botswana

Winnie Nakatudde (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Uganda

Mandipa Ndlovu (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Zimbabwe, South Africa

Dr. Karin Nijenhuis (Senior researcher)

Belindah Okello (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya

Penina Olum (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya

Loes Oudenhuijsen (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Senegal

Kershan Vikram Pancham (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa

Gitty Petit (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Tanzania

Francesca Pugliese (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa)

Dr. Annachiara Raia (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania

Núrel Bahí Reitz (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Tanzania, Namibia

Prof. Dr. Robert Ross (Retired research fellow)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa

Caspar Swinkels (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Uganda

Prof. Dr. Chibuike U. Uche (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Konstantin Valkov (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
South Africa

Jacqueline de Vries (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Cameroon

Dr. Klaas van Walraven (Senior researcher)
Geographic expertise:
Niger, West Africa, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)

Dr. Harry Wels (Publications manager)
Geographic expertise:
Southern Africa, South Africa

Marie-Louise Wijne (PhD candidate)

Chong Zhang (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Ghana, Ethiopia, Egypt

Hangyu Zhou (PhD candidate)
Geographic expertise:
Kenya, Nigeria
Posted on 15 November 2011, last modified on 16 October 2023