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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2018 WARA Fellowship Competition!!

WARA is happy announce the following winners of the 2018 WARA Fellowship competition:

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Connor Ryan (University of the West Indies) “`Lagos Never Spoils’: Nollywood and Nigerian Media Urbanism.”
• Anima Adjepong (Simmons College) “From `little Lagos’ to Accra’s Artist Scene.”

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Alfredo Rojas (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Moral Agriculture: Environmental Change, Society and Local Food Production in Niamasso Ivory Coast.”
• Ryan Carty (Michigan State University) “Trading Technologies: Hausa Communities in a Borderland, 1850-1914.”
• Janice Levi (University of California, Los Angeles) “Whispers in the West: The Emergence of a Jewish Community in 20^th century Ghana.”
• Tyler Hook (University of Wisconsin, Madison) “The Corporation and the Community: Local Stakeholders Engagement with International Corporate School Management Chains in Liberia.”
• Andrea Walther-Puri (Tufts Fletcher School) “Measuring the Impact of U.S. Military Counter-Terrorism Assistance in West Africa.”

Residency Fellowship

• Nonso Obikili (American University) to conduct a large-scale study of taxation in Lagos at American University.

WARC Library Fellow

• Justin Miller (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) for summer fellowship at the WARC Library in Dakar.