Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

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List of authors Khalil Alio received his Ph.D. from the Philipps University (Marburg, Germany) on the basis of a thesis in the field of Afro-Asiatic and Chadic Languages. He taught at the University of Maiduguru in Nigeria, was associated to the University of Los Angeles, USA and is currently working as Professor of African Linguistics at the University of N’Djamena, Chad, where he has also been ViceChancellor . His publications include a description of the Bidya language (Berlin 1986), a lexicon (Frankfurt 1989) and an edition with Bidya oral literature (Cologne 2004) and articles in various journals. Inge Brinkman (Ph.D., Leiden, 1996) has been engaged in various projects on socio-cultural History at Cologne University (Germany), Ghent University (Belgium ) and the African Studies Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands). Currently she is attached to the African Studies Centre in Leiden where she is working on the ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’ programme studying the relationship between mobility , communication technologies and social hierarchies. Her publications include A war for people (on the war in Angola), Bricks, mortar and capacity building (on the history of development cooperation) and (together with Mirjam de Bruijn and Francis Nyamnjoh) Mobile phones. The new talking drums of Africa, as well as articles in several journals. Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology of West and Central Africa at Leiden University and senior researcher at the African Studies Centre in Leiden. She has published widely on nomadic societies and on the relations between culture and poverty, crisis and identity. One of her current research programmes ‘Mobile Africa Revisited’ focuses on ICTs in Africa, within this framework she edited (together with Francis Nyamnjoh and Inge Brinkman) Mobile phones. The new talking drums of Africa (2009). Her new research programme ‘Connecting in times of duress’ will delve into new developments of social media in conflict areas in Africa. She co-edited the book The social life of connections in Africa (2012, Palgrave MacMillan). Fatima Diallo has a Master’s Degree in Public Law from Gaston Berger University , Senegal, and a Professional Master’s Degree in Cyberspace Law funded by the Association of Universities of the Francophonie. Having previously taught at the School of Law at Ziguinchor University and Gaston Berger University, she is now doing a PhD in legal anthropology at the African Studies Centre of Leiden List of authors 200 University in the Netherlands. She is a team member of the ‘Mobile Africa Revisited ’ project. She is also part of the steering committee of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, where she acts as the co-convenor of the Access to Information Working Committee. Her research interests are governance in conflict zones, legal and judicial pluralism, constitutionalism, access to justice and human rights, public information, public space, and power relations in African bureaucracies. Tangie Nsoh Fonchingong holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and.is currently senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the University of Buea, Cameroon. He has researched and published widely on Cameroon. His edited book entitled Cameroon: The Challenges of Governance and Development was published in 2009 by Langaa Research and Publishing CIG. He has articles in many academic journals the most recent of which include Journal of African Policy Studies (16, 1, 2010); African Journal of Social Sciences .(1, 3, 2010); Africa Insight ( 40, 3, 2011); and Tropical Focus ( 12, 1,2011). Fonchingong.is currently researching the politics of transnational migration focusing on Nigerian migrants in Anglophone Cameroon. Imke Gooskens is currently finishing a PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She has worked for various NGO’s using media for development , teaching basic video production skills and managing projects, has coproduced a documentary on the life of young refugees in Cape Town, and conducted research for the publication “Growing Up in the New South Africa: Childhood and Adolescence in Post-Apartheid Cape Town” (Bray, R. et al, 2010). Her main interests are research with and about children and young people, visual media, migration and trans-nationalism. Naffet Keïta est titulaire d’un doctorat en anthropologie. Il a travaillé sur les questions d’ethnicité, de territorialité, de migration, de foncier et d’accès aux ressources naturelles, de genre et sur la gouvernance des organisations de sociétés civiles en Afrique de l’Ouest. Aujourd’hui, M. Keïta co-dirige un réseau de recherche comparative portant « Socio-anthropologie du changement social en Afrique de l’Ouest » financé par le...