All Previous Fellows

West African Scholars Mobility Fellowship (formerly Ideas Matter Fellowship-U.S Based)

• David Okanlawon (Syracuse University) "Cultural Entanglement of the Atlantic World Foodways on Bunce Island, Sierra Leone."
• Christabel Agyeiwaa (University of California, Santa Barbara) "'Bend-down Boutique': Secondhand Economy in Twentieth-Century Ghana"

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Assan Sarr (Ohio University) “Islam in the Southern Fulɓe Heartland: Fula Itinerant Clerics in the Gambia, Upper Casamance and Guinea-Bissau Region c. 1803-1996”

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Alaba Ilesanmi (Florida State University) “The Sound of Black Solidarity: Fela Kuti Reincarnated within the Black Atlantic Soundscape”
• Chris Martinez (University of California, L.A.) “Pan-Africanism from the Grassroots: Kwame Ture and the Decolonization of Guinea”
• Desmond Fonseca (University of California, L.A.) “Revolutionary Legacies: Amilcar Cabral, the PAIGC and the Decolonization of Cape Verde, 1950-1980”
• Emily Fornof (University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Identity adaptation to survive a changing climate: Fulbe experiences in Mali”
• Olivia Shoemaker (Georgetown University) “Gender-Responsive Disarmament, Demobilization, and Rehabilitation in Northeastern Nigeria”
• Ra’phael Davis (Ohio State University) “Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Nigeria: Understanding Causal Processes”

Residency Fellowship

• Paul Bankole (Federal University of Agriculture) will work with Rutgers University researching Microbially mediated anaerobic transformation of the pharmaceuticals in fluidised bed reactors

WARC Library Fellow

• Rebecca Hankins (Texas A&M University) for summer fellowship at the WARC Library in Dakar.

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Damien Agbagbe (Ecole doctorale des sciences de l'ingénieur ED-SI) “Caractérisation de la terre latéritique renforcée par des fibres de noix de palme et armée du bois mallotus oppositifolius comme matériau des planchers pour la construction des logements en milieu rural”
• Faustina Twumwaa Gyimah ( University of Ghana) “Barriers and opportunities for the implementation of employment-related maternity protection legislation in Ghana.”
• Sidi Orou Zoulfaou Massara (Ecole Doctorale des Sciences Agronomiques et de l'Eau (EDSAE) “Etude de la qualité physico-chimique et biologique des boues de vidange des exploitations piscicoles en circuit fermé et circuit ouvert au Bénin”

West African Scholars Mobility Fellowship (formerly Ideas Matter Fellowship-U.S Based)

• Ogechi Vivian Nwadiaru (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "Economic and Sociocultural Value: How do Energy Storage Systems Support a Sustainable and
  Equitable Energy Transition"
• Enoch Azasu (Washington University in St Louis) "Prevalence, Sociocultural Risks and Protective Factors of Suicide Thoughts and Behaviors: A Cross
  Sectional Study of Middle School Students in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana"

Travel Grantees

• Sunday Ajagbe (Ladoke Akintola University of Technology) "Medical Domain- Based Multilingual Database/System for sub-Sahara Africa Using Artificial Intelligence"
• Mary Ajala (University of Ilorin) "Development of Hematite-Fe2O3 from Waste-iron Fillings for Co-doping with Rutile-TiO2 on Kaolinite
  Clay for Sequestration of Heavy Metals from Industrial Wastewater"
•  Mariam Coulibaly (University Joseph Ki-Zerbo)  "Draft genome of Kersting’s groundnut (Macrotyloma geocarpum) provide insights in whole genome,
  population genetic structure and main agronomic traits associations"
• Kafayath Fabiyi (Unité de Recherche en Microbiologie Appliquée et
  Pharmacologie des substances naturelles) "Développement de cocktails de bactériophages efficaces contre les souches multirésistantes de
  Pseudomonas aeruginosa et de Klebsiella pneumoniae responsables d’infections émergentes"
• Comfort Agyen Donkor (Kwame Nkrumah University and Science and
  Technology) "Harnessing the hydroelectric potential of small rivers in Ghana: The impact of climate change, variability
  and land use on selected rivers"
• Halfane Lehmane (Faculté des Sciences et Technique) "Phytochimie, Activités biologiques des extraits de Manihot esculenta et induction de l’amygdaline dans
  le traitement du cancer et du diabète au Bénin"
• Adeduntan Segun-Olasanmi (Obafemi Awolowo University) "Dynamics of Gender and Technology in the Cashew Nut Value Chain in Southwest Nigeria"
• Stephano Tambo (University of Dschang) "Formulation of composite infant blends flours using corn (Zea mays L.) and sesame (Sesamum
  indicum): effect of the addition of germinated corn flour (Atp and Coca-sr varieties) on gruels energy
  density, total soluble sugar, free amino nitrogen and consistency"

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• David Glovsky (University of Albany) “Geographies of Dissidence: Mobility, Citizenship, and Autonomy in a West African Borderland”
• Natalie Letsa (University of Oklahoma) “The Autocratic Citizen: Partisanship and Political Behavior under Dictatorship”

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Jason Buchea (Ohio State University) ”Tama Drums of Senegal”
• Jessica Cohen (Columbia University) “"A Better Life for Us All” : Family Planning for Nation Building in Ghana, 1957-1994”
• Reed (Kelsey) Couvillon (Rutgers University) “Women, Nationalism, and the State in the Early Republic of Dahomey, 1960-1975”
• Kristen Vogel (University of South Florida) “An African Women's Empowerment: Listening to Ghana's Matriarchs”
• Stuart Russell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “When the State Spends: Public Procurement in Burkina Faso”

Residency Fellowship

• Aisha Ibrahim (Fourah Bay College) for researching on whether living abroad has impacted the perceptions of gender norms and practices within the marriage of diasporic Sierra Leoneans living in the DC area.

WARC Library Fellow

• Olivia Hasan (Hampton Public Library) for summer fellowship at the WARC Library in Dakar.

West African Scholars Mobility Scholarship (formerly Ideas Matter Fellowship-U.S Based)

• Sana Saidykhan (Ohio University) "The Political Economy of Deforestation, 1939-2005"

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Ameyo Yayra Audrey Addablah (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte-d’Ivoire) – “Application des phages pour la décontamination des eaux de consommation et des surfaces.”
• Oluwafemi Daramola (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) – “Synthesis and Surface Modification of Magnetic Nanoparticles as Biosensing Element for Selected Enteric Pathogenic Bacteria.”
• Coumba Diagne (Université Gaston Berger, Sénégal) – “Evaluation des potentialités an0 microbiennes de souches de bactéries lacoste productrices de bactériocine et d’huiles essentielles pour le renforcement de l’hygiène d’un nouvel itinéraire de poissons marinés fermentés au Sénégal sur une matrice à base de mil malté.”
• Aisha Galalain (Bayero University, Nigeria) – “Evaluation of An0diabe0c Activity of Some Medicinal Plants Traditionally Used in Management of Type-2 Diabetes in Northwestern Nigeria.”

Travel Grantees

• Armel Frida Dossa (Université of Abomey-Calvi) for research in Ghana. “Selection of Essential Oil Crops, Hyptis suaveolens for cabbage and tomato pests control in horticultural systems of Benin”
• Emmanuel Nkemakolam Iwuala (Federal University Oye Ekiti) for research in Ghana. “Efficacy of Rhizosheath Mass as a Breeding Tool for Growth of Maize (Zea mays) Seedlings Under Drought Stress Condition” 
• Oluwaseun Kehinde Kupoluyi (University of Lagos) for research in Nigeria. “Comparative Antibiotics, Microbiological and Parasitological Assessment of Drinking Water from selected slum communities in Lagos, Nigeria, and Abomey-Calavi, Republic of Benin.”
• Christian Ouedraogo (Institut de recherche en Sciences de la Santé) for research in Benin. “Evaluation préclinique de l’innocuité et de l’efficacité biologique des extraits de Flemingia faginea Guill & Perr et Phaseolus vulgaris L., plantes utilisées en médecine traditionnelle pour la prise en charge del’hypertension au Burkina faso”
• Meminvegni Landry Gildas Guidigan (Department of Meteorology & Climate Science) “Simulate the effects of climate change on rice yield in the major rice production systems under current farmer’s practices, and sustainable cultivation practices in Cote d’Ivoire”
• Toyadala Hortense Lengani (Université Joseph KI-ZERBO)  “Intérêt de la supplémentation en oméga-3 sur l'évolution de la fonction rénal et l'état nutritionnel des patients atteints d'insuffisance rénal chronique suivis en consultation néphrologique”
• Walter Moulton (University of Jos) “In Search of Peace in Liberia: A Critique of Human Rights Practices”
• Odesola Kafilat (University of Ibadan) “Comparison of Morphological, Anatomical, and Metabolic Responses of Four Drought Tolerant Vigna subterranea”

West African Scholars Mobility Fellowship (formerly Ideas Matter Fellowship-U.S Based)

• Sana Saidykhan (Ohio University) "The Political Economy of Deforestation, 1939-2005"

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoue ( University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Transnational Histories, Nodes of Encounter, and Belonging in Africa”
• Micheal Birenbaum Quintero (Boston University) “Sound, Music, and the Ear in Yorubá Ifá Ritual, Cosmology, and Ethics

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Caroline Angle (University of Maryland) “Decolonizing Knowledge: Reclaiming Colonial Museums in North and West Africa”
• Angelina Arrington (University of Illinois) “Classroom Ethnographies in Rural Ghana: Harnessing Teachers’ Interpretations and Adaptations of Standards-Based Curriculum Reform to Improve Teacher Training”
• Sophie Lewis (Princeton University) “Towards a Global Understanding of the Musical Avant-Garde: Experiments in Technology and Sound at West African Radio Stations, 1950-1979”
• Dana Liljegren (CUNY Graduate Center) “L’art de la poubelle: Récupération and Politics of Trash in Senegalese Art, 1970–2010”
• Wallace Teska (Stanford University) “Social Conflict and Paths to Justice in Colonial Mali”

Residency Fellowship

• Joseph Oduro Frimpong (University of Kansas) for research of digitizing various hand-painted works held at Ashesi University’s Centre for African Popular Culture.

Travel Grantees

• Gwladys Azongnide (Université de Parakou) for research in Benin. “Early growth improvement of Vitellaria paradoxa C. F. Gaertn in Bénin: seed provenance test and biological fertilization (arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi)”

• Timothy Bamgbose (Ahmadu Bello University) for research in Ghana. “Molecular Characterization of Potential Probiotic Bacteria from Traditional Fermented Food”

• Anicet Ebou (Institut National Polytechnique Felix Houphouet-Boigny) for research in Benin. “Caractérisation moléculaire des communautés rhizobiales des régions forestières de Côte d’Ivoire”

• Marthe Montcho (Université d'Abomey-Calavi) for research in “Assessment and modelization of slaughterhouses sustainability waste management in Burkina Faso (West Africa)”

• Friday Alaji (University of the Western Cape) for research in Nigeria. “Investigating Participatory Development in South Africa and Nigeria; a case study of Stellenbosch and Bwari Municipalities”

• Mamadou Djaouga (University of Parakou) for research in Ghana. “Molecular identification of root-knot nematodes”

• Jeanne d’Arc Kabre (Université Joseph KI-ZERBO) for research in Benin. “Etudes des facteurs biochimiques et nutritionnels du Vigna radiata cultivé au Burkina Faso sur lemétabolisme et l'état général de santé du corps humain”

• Gratien Kiki (Université d’Abomey-Calavi) for research in Burkina Faso. “Amélioration de l’efficacité énergétique des bâtiments au Bénin par utilisation des éco-matériaux composites locaux dans l’enveloppe”

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Catherine Appert (Cornell University) “Atlantic Currents: Music and Memory in the New African Diaspora.”
• Marame Gueye (East Carolina University) “Discourses of Wifing: Gender, Marriage, and Language in Senegalese Popular Culture.”
• Jaira Harrington (Villanova University) “Transnational Political Power Rising: Nigeria’s Emerging Youth Vote.”

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Natalia Da Silva (Florida International University) “Museum Development in Cape-Verde and Guinea-Bissau: Access, Discourse and Memory.”
• Samia Errazzouki (University of California, Davis) “Race, Slavery, and Empire-Building in the African Atlantic: Morocco’s Invasion of the Songhai Empire (1591)” 
• Victoria Nachreiner (University at Buffalo) “Sexual Aesthetics: Cosmopolitan Bodily Practices in the Bight of Biafra, 1800-1900”
• Sarah Reynolds (Tulane University) “Delineating Religion and Spirituality in Benin.”

Residency Fellowship

• Agnassim Banito (University of Lome) to direct training in early detection of pathogens on agricultural crops to support disease management in Togo.

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Edward Gasu (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) “Peptides from Olivancillaria hiatula: Isolation, Characterisation and Biological Activities”
• Henriette Mihin (Université Joseph KI-ZERBO) “Bio-activities of essential oils from Laggera aurita (L. f.) Benth. ex C.B. Clarke (Asteraceae) and Hyptis suaveolens Poit. (Lamiaceae) from Burkina Faso and their use in the bio-conservation of beef and mutton”
• Wasiu Olorunlambe (University of Ibadan ) “Gender-based violence against women and children during United Nations peacekeeping operations in Sub-Saharan Africa (Central African Republic and South Sudan)

WARC Library Fellow

• Brittany Butler (University of California Berkeley) for summer fellowship at the WARC Library in Dakar.

Travel Grantees

• Emmanuel Agada David (Combre State University) for research in Nigeria.“The Impact of Medication Adherence Counseling on Glucose Control in Patients with Uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus”
• Fabrice Blanchard Allechy (Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny) for research in Benin. “Apport des chaînes de Markov et arbre de décision à la détermination des sites propices à la riziculture pluviale dans un contexte de changement climatique et de sécurité alimentaire : cas du bassin versant de la Lobo (Centre-ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire)
• Christiana Dapuliga (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology) for research in Ghana “Application of phages as biocontrol for Shigatoxin producing Escherichia coli in Vegetables”
• Roukiatou Traoré (Université Joseph KI-ZERBO) for research in Benin. “Caractérisation moléculaire et épidémiologie de la résistance aux antibiotiques de souches de Staphylococcus aureus”
• Afoussatou Amadou (Ecole Doctorale de la Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques) for research in Senegal. “Efficacité thérapeutique de la synergie entre les bactéries probiotiques et les extraits de plantes dans la lutte contre les mycotoxines alimentaires: mise au point d’un produit.”
• Chu Iweh (University of Energy and Natural Resources) for research in Cameroon. “Renewable Energy Integration and Distributed Generation (DG) in the Electric Grid; A Panacea for Sustainable Development in Sub Sahara Africa”
• Mamadou Laye Ndoye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar) in research in Côte d'Ivoire. “Évaluation de l’efficacité des programmes de promotion d’emploi au Sénégal : Cas de la Convention Nationale Etat-Employeurs (CNEE)”
• Christiana Owolabi (Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta) for research in Ghana. “Efficacy of Soft Landscape Elements and Their Management Practices as Carbon Sequestration Tools”

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.

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Alice Gougbe (University Félix Houphouet Boigny) “The conservation of niébé: Study of the efficacy of biopesticides in farming”
• Hauwah Kamaluddeen ( Kwara State University) “Impacts of Microfinance Banks on Women Empowerment: Evidence from Kwara State, Nigeria”
• Placide Mahougnan Toklo (University of Abomey-Calavi ) “Isolation and purification of the active principles of two anthelmintic plants used in the treatment of parasitic infections of small farm animals in Benin”

Travel Grantees

• Mamadou Ciré Diallo (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) “L’efficacité du cadre juridique des opérations minières en Afrique de l’Ouest : Etude des cas de la Guinée, du Sénégal, de la Côte d’Ivoire et du Ghana.”
• Chikezie Friday (University of Uyo, Nigeria) for research in Nigeria. “Entomological and Epidemiological Studies of Onchocerciasis in Cross River State, Nigeria.”
• Sawadogo Haffsatou (Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph KI-ZERBO, Burkina Faso) for research in Burkina Faso. “Etude de la résistance des souches placentaires de plasmodium falciparum aux antipaludiques utilisés pour le traitement préventif et curatif chez la femme enceinte à Ouagadougou.”
• Christopher Igbokwe (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) for research in Ghana. “Antimicrobial and Toxicity Potentials of Edible Medicinal Mushrooms on Selected Pathogenic Clinical Isolates.”
• Mainouna Ilboudo (Ouagadougou University PJKZ, Burkina Faso) for research in  Togo. “Natural Polyphenolic foods in Prevention and Treatment of Carcinogenic Tumors Caused by Human Papillomavirus in Burkina-Faso.”
• Ouedraogo Josias (Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph KI-ZERBO, Burkina Faso) for research in Burkina Faso. “Utilisation des papiers filtre Whatman FTA Elute et Whatman TM 903 pour un diagnostic moléculaire par PCR en temps réel des méningites bactériennes aigues et une analyse phylogénétique de leurs agents étiologiques au Burkina Faso.”
• Herve Koudjega (Ecole Doctorale, Bénin) "Vulnérabilité des eaux souterraines thermales à la variabilité climatique et aux activités socioéconomiques dans le bassin du Mono-Couffo au Bénin."
• Fokaoua Aliance Romain (University of Dschang, Cameroon) for research in Cameroon. “Evaluation of the antiepileptogenic activity of the methanolic stem bark extract Psychotria camptopus and its effects on depressive and anxiety-like behaviors in pentylentetrazole-kindled mice.”

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Kristin Peterson (University of California) “Africa Rising?: Planetary, Urban Politics, and Art Photography in Lagos, Nigeria”
• Emily Riley (Michigan State University) “Performing Politics: Female Politicians, Griottes, and the Parité Movement Dakar, Senegal”

Pre-doctoral Fellowship

• Lisa Fouladbash (University of North Carolina) for research in Burkina Faso “Ground truthing Sahelian Greening with Local Knowledge in Burkina Faso”
• Jason McSparren (University of Massachusetts Boston) for research  in Mali “Seeking a Nexus between Transparency, Accountability and Sustainable Development in the Extractive Industries: Evaluating the capacity of civil society organizations in Mali”
• Douglas Peach (Indiana University) for research in Sierra Leone “ ‘We Are Here to Sensitize the Connection Among our Peoples!’: Music, Heritage, and Trans-Atlantic Dialogues between Sierra Leoneans and Gullah Geechees”
• Matthew Steele (Harvard University) for research in Guinea “The Lives of Texts: Islam, Law, and History in Guinea”
• Russell Stevenson (Michigan State University) for research in Nigeria “White Shirt Empire: Mormonism and Corporate (Post)colonialism in Nigeria, 1953-1988”

Residency Fellowship

• Valerie Delali Adjoh-Davoh (University of Cape Coast) to conduct research on child labor in the colonial period of the Gold Coast at Harvard University.

WARC Library Fellow

• Obden Mondésir (Queen’s College) for summer fellowship at the WARC Library in Dakar.

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Isata Kamanda (Agricultural Research Institute) “Involving women in participatory selection of biofortified cassava germplasm in Sierra Leone”
• Amoin Gervaise Kouame (University Nangui Abrogoua) “Menopause in Côte d’Ivoire: knowledge of traditional methods of treatment and evaluation of their efficiency”
• Yao Manu Seshie ( Fondation 2iE) “Experimental studies of the solar concentration plant CSP4Africa”

Travel Grantees

• Tovide Semou Noel (Université d’Abomey-Calavi) for research in Burkina Faso. “Contamination du mil (pennisetum americanum) et du sorgho (sorghum bicolor) par les moisissures productrices de mycotoxines: evaluation des risques d’exposition des populations aux fumonisines, aflatoxines et ochratoxines”.
• Konan Louis Nguessan (Université Nangui Abrogoua) for research in Burkina Faso. “Evaluation de l’impact de différents régimes de feu sur le stock de carbone et l’état physiologique des microorganismes du sol dans la zone de contact forêt-savane de Côte d’Ivoire”.
• Yusuf Rafatu Talatu (Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria) for research in Ghana. “Fabrication of catalytic foam filters based on perovskite catalysts for diesel soot emission control.”
• Sama Hemayoro (LABIOCA, Université Ouaga I Pr Joseph KIZERBO) for research in Benin. “Etude de la résistance de Jatropha curcas L. aux champignons phyto-pathogènes de l’espèce.”
• Evariste Bako (University of Ouagadougou) “Molecular Epidemiology of Virulence Genes and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Diarrheal Escherichia Coli Pathogenic Strains Isolated from Livestock Market Effluents in Ouagadougou.”
• N’Do Jotham (University of Ouagadougou) “Potentiel hépatoprotecteur et criblage phytochimique de Acanthospermum hispidum DC (Asteracea).”
• Kossitse Venyo Akpataku (Université de Lomé, Togo), “Identification des sources de contamination des eaux souterraines par les composés minéraux azotés : Cas de la Région des Plateaux du Togo”
• Arts Council of the African Studies Association. In support of West African scholars traveling to the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art, sponsored by ACASA. The Symposium will take place at the University of Ghana at Legon from August 18 to 13, 2017.

Post-doctoral Fellowship

• Maria Leichtman (Michigan State University) “The NGO-ization of Islamic Futures: Religion, Transnationalism, and Economic Development in Senegal”
• Oluwakemi Balogun (University of Oregon) “Beauty Diplomacy: Culture, Markets, and Politics in the Nigerian Beauty Pageant Industry”

Pre-doctoral Fellows

• James Blackwell (Michigan State University) for research in Nigeria “Igbo Migration, Entrepreneurship and the Creation of the ‘Igbo Scare’ in British Southern Cameroons, 1920-1970”
• Allison Grossman (University of California Berkley) for research in Guinea “Citizen Perceptions and State Legitimacy after the Ebola Crisis in Guinea”
• Oluwakayinsola Obayan (Cornell University) for research in Nigeria “In Search of the Nigerian Dream: Transnational Migrants and the Politics of Home”
• Anne Spear (University of Maryland) for research in Burkina Faso “Assessing the Impact of Teacher Training as an Intervention to Gender Inequalities”
• Emily Stratton (Indiana University) for research in Ghana “The Rise of the “One Man” Churches in Urban Ghana: Of Money, Masculinity, and Upward Social Mobility”

Diaspora Intern

• Allison Backman (Boston University, School of Social Work) for an internship at GOAL Global in Sierra Leone for the purpose of working with Ebola survivors in reintegrating into their communities.

Residency Fellow

• Mohamed Diagayete (Institut des Hautes Etudes et de Recherches Islamiques Ahmed Baba) to work on Islamic manuscripts from Western Sahara at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign

WARC Library Fellow

• Katrina Spencer (University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign)

Ideas Matter Fellowship

• Osemudiamen Anao (University of Benin) “Assessment of genotoxicity and environmental health effects of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) on Allium cepa and male and female albino wistar rats”

• Blandine Akomoun Kakpo (Université d’Abomey-Calavi) “Contribution à l’identification et à la caractérisation chimique   des molécules actives de quelques plantes reconnues efficaces en médecine traditionnelle dans le traitement de la fièvre typhoïde au Bénin dans la perspective de leur valorization”

• Gloria Tetteh-Kubi (University of Cape Coast) “Improving the Field Resistance of Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) Genotypes to the Cowpea Aphid (Aphis craccivora)”

Travel Grantees

• Komivi Dossa (University Cheikh Anta Diop) for research in Cameroon.“Understanding the physiological and enzymatic mechanisms of drought resistance in Sesame”
• Keita Ibrahim (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) for research in Mali. “Sélection et caractérisation des levures productrices de Protéines d’Organismes Unicellulaires (POU)”
• Koffi Yao Bernard (Université Nangui-Abrogoua-Abidjan) for research in Senegal. “Etude de la communauté microbienne (biomasse microbienne, activité des micro-organismes et diversité microbienne) dans les sols amendés avec les déjections animales pour une production rizicole et maraîchère durable en Côte d’Ivoire”
• Idowu Omowumi Omodunni (Ekiti State University, Nigeria) for research in Nigeria. “Women, Environment Degradation and Food Security: the case of Oloibiri Community of Bayelsa State, Nigeria”
• Ikem Chinedu Joseph (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria) for research with senior scholars in Ghana. “Antimalarial Properties of Selected Commercially Available Herbal Preparations in Nigeria”
• Nikiema Muhamadi (UFR/SVT Universite de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) for travel to Benin to work with specialists on mechanization. His research project is on the mechanization of municipal waste
• Ottoitobiga Cecile Harmonie (University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) for travel to Benin to work with colleagues there. Her research is on irrigated rice production and the reduction and control of toxic ferrous and sulphuric elements; fertilization, and varietal rizicutlure.
• Soro Thionhoukele Drissa (University Nangui Abrogoua, Cote d’Ivoire) for travel to Togo. Mr. Sor’s project is concerned with reforestation efforts. It will examine spatiotemporal aspects of brush fires and their relation to vegetation and bio-diversity in the savannah zones of Côte d’Ivoire and Togo.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Chima J. Korieh (History, Marquette University)
  “African Voices: Letters of Petition from Colonial Nigeria”
• Kwasi Konadu (History, Winston-Salem State University)
  “The Culture of Healing in West Africa: A Biography of Nana Kofi Donkor”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Dontraneil Clayborne (History, University of California-Los Angeles)
  “Colonial Legacy and Post-Colonial Approaches to Urban Land Tenure, Property Rights, and Slum Upgrading in Ghana”
• Matthew Kirwin (Political Science, Michigan State University)
  “Political Identity and Conflict Mitigation in Burkina Faso”

WARC Library Fellow

• Jeremy Kenyon (Library and Information Science, Indiana University)

Residencies

• University of North Carolina-Greensboro hosting Dr. Joyce Endeley (Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Buea, Cameroon)
• Kalamazoo College hosting Dr. Ibrahim Abdullah (Africa and Islam in Africa, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone)

Travel Grantees

• Aya Brigitte N’Dri (University of Abobo-Adjamé, Cote D’Ivoire) for a meeting with scientists from the Biofun Project on “The Impact of Termites on Tree Population Dynamics in Savannas Under a Frequent Fire Regime”
• Carolyn Tyhra Kumasi (Kwame Nkrumah University, Ghana) for the present “Impacts of Land – Use Change on the Quality Parameters Along the Barakese Reservoir Catchment Area” at Lagos University, Nigeria.
• Adebayo Osagie Shittu (Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria) to present “Phenotypic and Molecular Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in South Western Nigeria” at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
• Elisée Soumonni (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin) to present “The Impact of the British Abolition on the Slave Trade Port of Ouidah” at the American Historical Association Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia from January 4 – 7, 2007.
• Rose Korang-Okrah (University of Illinois) researching “Risk and Resilience: Perspectives of Ghanaian Widows on the Loss of Property Rights” in Ghana.
• Lucy Mande Ndip (University of Buea, Cameroon) researching “Genotypic Characterization of Ehrlichia Species in Cameroon” at the Pathology Lab at the University of Texas
• Batamaka Somé (University of Illinois) researching “Men’s Cotton, Women’s Cotton, and Intra-household Negotiations: Gender Dynamics in Rural Southwest Burkina Faso” in Burkina Faso.

Graduate Intern

• Giavanni Washington (University of California-Los Angeles) to work at CINOMADE in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Undergraduate Paper Awards

• Colin Bos (University of Chicago) “Black Man’s Grave: Disease Writing and Colonization in Liberia, 1822-1858”
• Debbie Onuona (Harvard University) “The Lesser Evil: Dumping as Environmental Choice in Accra, Ghana”
• Jethro Israel (Lafayette College) “Your Land but my Food: The Colonialist effect of Land Grabbing in West Africa”
• Iyeyinka Omigbodun (Harvard University) “Tributes to the Great Amazon”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Catherine Kelly (Washington University of Saint Louis) for research in Senegal:  “On Party Formation, Party Loyalty and Democracy in Senegal”
• Stacey Vanderhurst (Indiana University) for research in Nigeria:  “Human Trafficking Interventions in Nigeria”
• Matthew Thomann (Columbia University) for research in Côte d’Ivoire: “Hierarchies of Suffering and Resilience: Travesti Experiences of Vulnerability and Exclusion in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Justine Davis (University of California, Berkeley) for research in Côte d’Ivoire “Partisanship Perceptions of Voter Education Providers in Côte d’Ivoire”
• James Mizes (University of California Berkeley) for research in Senegal: “Department of City and Regional Planning, on the Dakar Municipal Finance Program”
• Elizabeth Gardiner (The Ohio State University) for research in Burkina Faso: “Assessing the Role of Domestic Entrepreneurs in the Commodification of Communal Land in Burkina Faso”
• Rebecca Wall (Stanford University) for research in Senegal: “African History, on the history of river management projects in the Senegal River Nations”

Diaspora Internship

• Ebonee Davis (Morgan State University, Museum Studies, and Historical Preservation Department) For an internship at W.E.B. Dubois Library for the purpose of cleaning and preserving the W.E.B. Dubois Library Collection

Library Fellow

• Rhonda Jones (School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Residency Fellowship

• Adeyinka Odebode (Port Harcourt University and University of Botswana), to work on advanced molecular techniques of plant biology at the University of California, Riverside

Travel Grantees

• Eyoukeani Kouloung (University of Lome) for research in Senegal: “L’ONU face aux enjeux et défis de la reconstruction des Etats d’Afrique subsaharienne affectés par des conflits armés internes: les exemples libérien, sierra-léonais, ivoirien et centrafricain”
• Abadjayé Faouziath Sanoussi (Université d’Abomey-Calavi) for research in Senegal: “Effet du séchage traditionnel et amélioré sur les propriétés nutritionnelles et la teneur en vitamine A des cultivars à chair colorée de patate douce du Bénin et leur farine composite pour l’alimentation de sevrage”
• Togo Mohamed Traore (Auburn University) for research in Burkina Faso “Modeling Households’ Demand for Agricultural Food Commodities in Burkina Faso”
• Essodolom Taale (Universite de Ouagadougou) for research in Benin. "Recherche de Genes de Molucules Bioactive a Partir de Souches Bacteriennes: Cas des Bacteries Productrices de Bacteriocines"
• Ikpefan Emmanuel  (Department of Pharmacognosy and Traditional Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, Delta State University) for research at the Atsu Osei Centre for Cancer and Biomedical Research at the University of Ghana Legon, May 25 – July 25, 2015. “Isolation and Characterization of the anticancer active constituents from some Nigeran plants”
• Afolayan Gloria (West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana; and the National Centre for Genetics and Biotechnology, Ibadan) for research with ICRISAT India, December 2015. “Introgression of QTLs for Striga Resistance into Sorghum Varieties Adapted in Nigeria through Marker Assisted Backcrossing”
• David Olubiyi Obada (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ahmadu Bello University) for research with the Ceramics & Energy Materials research group at the University of Ghana College of Basic and Applied Sciences, in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering Sciences, June and July 2015. “Development of Porous Ceramic Honeycomb from Kaolinite Clay for Automobile Exhaust System”
• Adewole Kayode (Department of Biochemistry, University of llorin) for research at Kintampo Health Research Centre in the Brong Ahafo Region – Ghana, August 2015. “In Vitro and In Vivo Antimalarial Studies on Isolated Cysteine-Rich Peptides of Morinda Lucida Leaf”.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Michelle Kuenzi (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) for research in Senegal: “Political Parties and Representation in Senegal”
• Sidra Lawrence (Bowling Green State University) for research in Ghana and Burkina Faso: “The Revolution will not be subsidized: Dagara Female Musicians and the Problem of Development”
• Sarah Zimmerman (Western Washington University) for research in Senegal:  “Mesdames Tirailleurs: Marriage, Migration, and African Colonial Households in French Empire, 1880-1962”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Matthew Cooper (University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill) for research in Mali: “Exploring the Sikasso Paradox: A Comparative Study of Land Use Change, Cotton, and Malnutrition in Southern Mali”
• Adrian Deese (Cornell University) for research in Nigeria: “Theology and the State: Intellectual History in Early Nigeria (Yorubaland)”
• Matthew Faytak (University of California- Berkeley) for research in Cameroon: “Documenting words, language use, and multilingualism in Kom and Oku”
• Erin Kitchell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) for research in Burkina Faso, Mali & Senegal: “Institutional Arrangements, Climate Risk, and Conflict Resolution in Agropastoralist Zones”

Diaspora Internship

• Brandi Simpson Miller (History Department, Georgia State University) Internship at  University of Ghana, Legon- Department of Family and Consumer Sciences for research on food and nationalism.

Travel Grantees

• Cletus Anes Ukwubile (University of Ibadan) for research in Ghana: “Design and Development of Annona Muticata Chitosan Nanoparticle for targeting ovarian cancer tissue ”
• Bayanatou Toure (ADESS/CNRS) for research in Benin, Niger, & Nigeria “Gouvernance des Bassins transfrontaliers en Afrique de l’Ouest. Le fleuve Niger entre Bénin, Niger et Nigéria”
• Kwevitoukoui Hounkpati (University of Georgia) for research in Benin, Ghana, & Togo ” Systematic studies of West African Coccinellidae”
• Oluchi Ezekannagha (University of Ibadan) for research in Benin and Senegal: “How food production system affects the nutrition of smallholder farmers”
• Ibrahima Ka (Universite Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis) for research in Burkina Faso: “Defis de securisation fonciere en Afrique de l’ouest: exemples du Senegal et du Burkina Faso”
• Kossi-Kuma Agbalevon (Université Polytechnique de Bobo-Dioulasso (UPB)) for research in Senegal:  “Complications du diabète à Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso) : Contribution  aux méthodes  de prévention”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Devin Bryson (Illinois College) “Fed Up: Creating a New Type of Senegal Through Literature and the Arts”
• Trevor Getz (San Francisco State University) “History and its alternatives in Ghana”
• Lorelle Semley (College of the Holy Cross) “Free and French: The Challenge of Black Citizenship to Empire”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Karl J. Haas (Boston University) “Time and Space, Music and Matter: A Musical Ethnography of the Kambonsi of Northern Ghana”
• Elyan Jeannine Hill (University of California, Los Angeles) “Mami Wata, Diaspora and Circum-Atlantic Gestural Histories”
• Katherine Seto (University of California, Berkeley) “Fish Wars: Investigating Linkages between Coastal Fisheries Resource Scarcity and Conflict in West Africa”
• Paul Thissen (University of California, Berkeley) “Informal order: The importance of traditional elites in Chad’s governance”

Library Fellow

• Julia F. Keiser (Library Science, Queens College)

WARA Residency Fellowship

• Lesley University hosting Prof. Awang Ollong Kingsly,  University of Bamenda, Cameroon
• Boston University hosting Dr. Alphonse Raphaël Ndiaye, Foundation Leopold Senghor

Diaspora Internship

• Julia Neal (Art History, Boston University)
  Internship at  Foundation for Contemporary Art-Ghana

Travel Grantees

• Nathaniel Dede- Bamfo (Texas State University at San Marcos), for research in Ghana:  “Modeling Spatial Accessibility and potential new routes in the Afram Plains, Ghana”
• Vodjo Nicodeme Fassinou Hotegni (Universite Abomey-Calavi), for research in Ghana:  “Using agronomic and logistic tools to improve the synchronization, quality and uniformity of pineapple in Benin produced for the local and international market”
• Theresa Owusu-Danso (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), for research in Ghana:” Microfinance, Household Indebtedness, and Gender Inequality”
• Adebayo Oluwole Eludoyin (University of Exeter, Geography), for research in Nigeria: “Environmental Sustainability: How relevant is Spatial Information System to groundwater quality assessment”
• Codjo Emile Agbangba (Universite d’Abomey-Calavi, Biostatistics/Applied Ecology), for research in Senegal: “Estimation de l’age et de la productivite des populations Acacia senegal (L) Willd., dans le Rerlo-nord”
• Aremu Olajire Adegoke (University of Ibadan), for research in Ghana: “Impurities Profiling of some antibiotics circulating in Nigeria using High-Performance liquid chromatography”
• Programme economie politique et gouvernance/ Political economy and governance program (PEPG-Niger)
  This grant will fund three of the ten 2013-2014 PEPG Fellows. Hosted by the Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Sociales et le Développement Local (LASDEL) in Niger, PEPG is a ten-month program for advanced students in the social sciences. With a stress on the development of research skills and interdisciplinarity, the program offers a certificate from the University of Niamey.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Augustine Agwuele (Linguistics and Anthropology, Texas State University-San Marcos)
  “Non-verbal communication among seeing and blind Yoruba speakers”
• Gloria Chuku (History and African Studies; University of Maryland-Baltimore) “Confronting the silences: Gender, ethnicity and the Biafra-Nigeria War”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Nijah Noel Cunningham (English Literature, Columbia University)
  “Dakar 66: Negritude, nationalism, and the idea of a Black aesthetic”
• John. J. Hames (Cultural AnthropologyUniversity of Florida)
  “Cultural nationalism at the margins: A look at the trans-border ‘Radio Communities in the Senegal River Valley”
• Yetunde Olaiya (Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism; Princeton University)
  “The techno-politics of postwar architectural production in French West Africa, 1945-75
• Brittany Anne Sheldon (History of Art and African Studies, Indiana University)
  “Visualizing cultural identity: Tradition and innovation in wall paintings by women in northern Ghana”

WARC Library Fellow

• Jonathan Adam Clemons (African Studies/Library Science, Indiana University)

Residencies

• Ohio University, African Studies Program & E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, hosting Kojo Acquah Yankah, African University College of Communication, Accra, Ghana“A Year for African Journalism”
• Ohio State University, African American & African Studies Department,
  hosting Dr. Siendou Konate, the University of Cocody-Abidjan
  “Violence in African-American Fiction: A comparative study of violence in Richard Wright’s Native Son and Billy by Albert French”

Travel Grantees

• Olakunle Michael Folami (University of Ulster, Nothern Ireland, UK) for research in Nigeria. “The gendered construction of Redress in Niger Delta, Nigeria”
• Gueye Ndiaye (Ecole Doctorale/EDEQUE/ UCAD, Dakar, Senegal) for research in Senegal and Guinea Bisau.  “SIG teledetection et connaisance de ‘environment des aires protegees en Afrique de l’Ouest”
• Oluwatoyin Adepeju Odeku (Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Ibadan)
  “Development of local materials as novel pharmaceutical excipients for drug delivery”
• Oladapo Kayode Opasina (Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento, Political Science)
  “Governance and public policy in post-conflict societies: Examining security, political and socio-economic development in Nigeria and Cote d’Ivoire”
• Evelyn Sakeah (Boston University School of Public Health)
  “Utilizing the community-based health planning and service program to promote skilled attendants at birth in rural areas of the upper east region of Ghana”
• Hadji Sissokho (Universite Chiekh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal) for research in Mali, Guinea, Gambia, and Liberia. “The Mande empire and its influence in the West African mindset”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Klieman Kairn (African History, University of Houston)
  “Before the ‘Curse’; Petroleum, Politics, and Transnational Oil Companies in the Gulf of Guinea, Africa, 1890s-1980s”
• Donna Patterson (History, Wellesley College)
  “Expanding Professional Horizons: Pharmacy, Gender, and Entrepreneurship in 20th Century Senegal”
• Gitti Salami (Art History, University of Kansas)
  “Postcolonial Yakurr Studies: An Aesthetics of Mud, Soot and Sharp Blades”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Jau-Yon Chen (African Studies, Howard University)
  “Migration as a Strategy of Development: The Case of Senegal”
• Lauren Nicole Coyle (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  “Dual Sovereignties in the Golden Twilight: Law, Land, and Labor in Ghana”
• Šara Stranovsky (World Arts and Culture, University of California, Los Angeles)
  “Batuko, Community and International Exchange in Santiago, Cape Verde”

Residencies

• Kent State University hosting Dr. Moses Abiala (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison hosting Dr. Mbuh Judith Veshiyi  (University of Buea, Cameroon)

Travel Grantees

• Tina Abrefa-Gyan (University of Maryland) Socio-demographic characteristics, social support, and quality of life among people living with AIDS (Ghana, August 2011)
• Yaya Badji (Senegalese, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop) La gestion politico-administrative des risqués alimentaires, contribution a l’etude des politiques publiques des etats de l’OMVS (Mali, Mauritania, Guinea Conakry, April 2011 – )
• Gorgui Dieng (Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal), for research at Ohio State University about “The Cold War and the ‘Failure’ of African Independence”
• Abibatou Banda Fall (Senegalese; Universite Gaston Berger) Biomasse energie et strategies d’ecodeveloppment au Sahel: etude compare Senegal/Mali (Senegal and Mali, March – September 2011)
• N’Da Valentine Kouame (Ivorienne; Universite d’Abobo-Adjame) Caracteristiques techno-functionnelles des amidons selectionnes et leur incorporation comme agent de texture dans la formulation du yaourt.(Ghana, April – October 2011)
• Vami Hermann N’Guessan Bi (Centre Universitaire de Recherche et d’Application en teledetection), for research in Senegal to do a “business analysis of the risks of erosion and flood in the Systems of d’Informations Geographiques (SIG)”
• Omobolanle Marcus Oluwasegun Nosiru (TAI Solarin University of Education, Nigeria), for research in Nigeria about “Efficiency and the Determinants of total factor productivity of Nerica Rice in North- Central Nigeria”
• Christine Iyetunde Ofulue (Nigerian, National Open University of Nigeria) Language maintenance and preservation in indigenous languages: the role of translation and functional domains in Gun (Nigeria and Benin, March 2011)
• Akinola Popoola (University of Agriculture, Nigeria), for research in Ghana about “building capacity in agro-biotechnology to improve tomato yield in wilt-endemic areas of Nigeria and Ghana”
• Olugu Olugu Ukpai (Nigerian, University of Reading, UK) Female genital cutting: Problems and prospects of its socio-legal abolition in Southeastern Nigeria: A demystificatory case study. (Nigeria, November 2010-May 2011)

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Kathryn Rhine (Anthropology, U Kansas) “Vitalities: The Gendered Politics of Kinship and AIDS in Nigeria”
• James Straker (History/Comp Lit, Colorado School of Mines) “After Sekou: Youth, Vulnerability, and Possibility in Post-revolutionary Guinea: 1984-2001”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• John Scott-Railton  (Urban Planning, UCLA) “Maladaptation of the Changing Climate: Why Household Strategies may have Worsened Flooding in Dakar, Senegal”
• Joanna Upton (Applied Economics, Cornell University) “Policy, Networks and Process: Why Food Supply Mechanisms in West Africa Fail”
• Jessica Wilbanks (Creative Writing, University of Houston) “God’s Arrows: Documenting the Oral and Written Narratives of Pentecostal Christians in Southern Nigeria”

WARC Library Fellow

• Megan Goins (Africana Studies/Library Science, NYU and Long Island University) Ms. Goins is working on two Masters degrees, one in Africana Studies at NYU, and another in Library and Information Studies at Long Island University.

Residencies

• Kalamazoo College hosting Dr. Joe Anthony Dominic Alie (History, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone)
• Boston University hosting Yelimane Fall (Calligrapher and visual artist, Dakar, Senegal)
• The University of Florida-Jacksonville hosting Dr. Ahmed Nuhu Zakariah (Emergency Medicine Camp; Director of the national ambulance service of Ghana)

Travel Grantees

• Amy Niang (University of Edinburgh), for research in Burkina Faso and Mali on “ State and Social Processes in Pre-colonial West Africa: Elements of Power, Office Devolution and Agency in the Mossi States”
• Edem Kodzo Ekpe (University of Central Florida), for research in Ghana on “Evaluating Biocomplexity: Livelihoods Support Activities and Their Effects on Forest Biodiversity in Southeastern Ghana”
• Bala Saho (Michigan State University), for research in the Gambia on “Islam, Gender and Authority: Social and Religious Transformations in the Muslim Courts of the Gambia, 1905 – 1965”
• Gladys Asiedu (Kansas State University), for research in Ghana on “Unheard Voices: Impacts of HIV/AIDS-related Stigma on Individuals and Families in Ghana”
• Asi Ndum (Brandenburg Technical University of Cottbus), for research in Cameroon on “Bottom-up Approach for Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Cameroon”
• Oluwaseun O. Kolawole (University of Ibadan, Nigeria), for research in Ghana on “Contamination of Public Water Supplies”
• Taiwo A. Olaiya (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria), for field research in Ghana for “A Comparative Study of Tax Administration and Burden of Governance in Nigeria and Ghana”
• Jummai O. Yila (Asian Institute of Technology), for research in Nigeria on “A Gender-based Analysis of Vulnerability and Adaptability to Climate Change among Peasant Households in Semi-arid Nguru District, Nigeria”
• Gbenahmin L. P. Tossa (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal), for research in Senegal on “La Protection Juridique de l’Enfant au travail en Afrique de l’Ouest Francophone”
• Brahima Ouattara (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal), for research in Mali on “Commerce à longue distance et pénétration de l’Islam en Côte d’Ivoire au XVe – XIXe Siècle”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Dr. Carmela Garritano (English Department, University of St. Thomas)
  “A History of African Popular Video: Ghanaian Cinema, Grassroots Globalization and Cosmopolitan Desires”
• Dr. John Glover (History Department, University of Redlands)
  “The Layenne Sufi Order of Senegal”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Katherine Ann Wiley (Anthropology, Indiana University)
  “Beyond Getting By in Mauritania: Haratin Women’s Economic Practices and Identity Formation”
• Kwame Essien (History Department, The University of Texas at Austin)
  “The African Diaspora in Reverse: The Tabom People in Ghana, 1935-2008.”
• Amy Lynn Moran-Thomas (Anthropology, Princeton University)
  “The Paradox of Non-Communicable Epidemic: A Generational Perspective on Diabetes Care in Northern Ghana”

Residencies

• Ohio University hosting Dr. Usman Ladan (History Department, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria)
• Santa Clara University hosting Dr. Alain Sissao (Institut National Des Sciences de Societé and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Burkina Faso)

Travel Grantees

• Jenny Fatou Mbaye (London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom) for research in Senegal and Bourkina Faso on “Hip Hop Music in West Africa: From Cultural Entrepreneurship to Social Change”
• Jude Emeka Icheku (University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa) for research in Nigeria on “An Investigation into the Involvement of the Roman Catholic Church in the Management of HIV/AIDS pandemic in Nigeria: The Case of Calabar, Cross River State”
• Jean-Louis Sanka (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) for research in The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Senegal on “Enquêtes de Terrains sur le Sujet ‘Politiques Publiques et Territories en Afrique de l’Ouest, Dynamiques et Mutations Territoriales et les Réseaux Socio-Économiques, Analyse à partir des Frontiers Sud Sénégalo-Gambienne et Sénégalo-Bissau Guinéenne’”
• Francis Kwame Boison (Deaf Empowerment Foundation, The Netherlands) for the presentation of a paper in Ghana “Patterns of Sign Language in Ghana”
• Dr. Olarinmoye Oluwatosin Modupe (Lagos State University, Nigeria) for participation in the USGS Best Environmental Monitoring Program in the United States
• Khady Tamba (University of Kansas) for research in Senegal on Sereer-Siin
• Séhou Ahmadou (Université de Yaoundé) to present a paper “Lamido Iyawa Adamou de Banyo (Nord-Cameroun): chef traditionnel, parlementaire et esclavagiste (1902-1966)” at the “Tales of Slavery: Narratives of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Enslavement in Africa” conference at the University of Toronto, 20 – 23 May 2009, a conference co-sponsored by WARA.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Dr. Abu Bakarr Bah (Sociology, Northern Illinois University) “State Decay and Regional Insecurity: A critical examination of the international peace mediation in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Cote d’Ivoire”
• Dr. Hromi-Fielder (Public Health, University of Connecticut)
  “Dietary Practices, Food Availability, and Nutritional Status among Liberian Refugees”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Leif Brottem (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  “Pastoralism, Bioculture and Changing Patterns of Governance in West Africa”
• Timothy Landry (Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  “Local Production and Global Imaginings of Vodun in Benin”
• Kathryn McHarry (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  “Growing the Nation: Childhood, Medicine, and Technology in Senegal’s Development”

WARC Library Fellow

• Lindsey Campbell-Badger (Library Science, Indiana University)

Residencies

• UCLA hosting Dr. Francis Minimah (Department of Philosophy, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria)

Travel Grantees

• Oumou K.C. Beye (Université René Descartes, France) for research in Senegal on “Crise des systèmes de solidarité familiale et paupérisation des femmes en milieu urbain”
• Josephine Dawuni (Georgia State University) for research in Ghana on “Gender, Social Movements, and Democracy: Examining the factors for the success of women’s social movements in Ghana”
• Othniel M. Yila (Asian Institute of Technology) for research in Nigeria on “Technologies in the Central Highlands of Nigeria: An economic and policy analysis for Nigeria”
• Georgette Koty (North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University) for research in Mali, Niger, Benin, and Nigeria on “Water Resource Management in the Niger River Basin”
• Azeez Butali (University of Dundee, Scotland) for research in Nigeria on “An Investigation into the Role of Gene-Environment Interaction in the Etiology of Orofacial Clefts in Nigeria”

Graduate Intern

• Zahida Sherman (Howard University) to work at the W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Centre for Pan-African Culture in Accra, Ghana

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Edmund Abaka, (Department of History, University of Miami)
  “The Hausa Diaspora in the Gold Coast and Asante c. 1820-1950”
• Matthew J. Christensen (Department of English, University of Texas)
  “Rebellious Histories: The Amistad Slave Revolt, Globalization, and Modernity in the U.S. and Sierra Leone ”

Pre-Doctoral Research Grants

• Jeffrey Scott Ahlman (History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) “Rebuilding the Pan-African Bridge: Kwame Nkrumah, the Algerian Revolution, and the Postcolonial African Community”
• Carmen Ruth McCain (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  “Out of Death Comes Regeneration: the Treatment of HIV in Hausa Novels and Films”
• Thomas Richmond Fenn (Archeology, University of Arizona)
  “Ancient West African Copper Metallurgy and its Role in the Development of Trans-Saharan Trade”

Residencies

• University of North Florida hosting Dr. Aymerou Mbaye (EFL Department, Ecole Normale Superieure/Universite Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal)
• Indiana University hosting Professor Shittu Akinola (Department of Public Administration, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria)

Travel Grantees

• Olagorite Adetula (National Horticultural Research Institute, Nigeria) for travel to the Plant and Animal Genome Conference in San Diego, California from January 14-18, 2006.
  
• Issiaka Youssoupha (Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey, Niger) for research in Sénégal on “Accès à la banque de données de Wetlands International, Maîtrise du logiciel de traitement des données, échanges avec les spécialistes de la convention”
• Peter Apata Olubambi (Federal University of Technology, Nigeria, and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) to present “Hydrometallurgical Process Development for Zinc and Copper extraction from Nigerian Ores” at a conference in San Antonio, Texas from March 12-16 2006.
  
• Judith Vershiyi Mbuh (University of Buea, Cameroon) for travel to Scotland to present “Malaria and Intestinal Helminthiasis in School Children” at the 11th International Congress of Parasitology.
• Papa Miessa Dieng (Université Gaston Berger, Senegal) for travel to Washington, DC to participate in a panel on “The Kungaru Archive Project” at the African Studies Association meeting.
• Jeremiah Oluwasegun Arowosegbe (Covenant University, Nigeria) for travel to Japan to present “Oil and the National Question in Nigeria: The Case of the Ethnic Minorities in the Niger Delta” at the 20th World Congress of the International Political Science Association.
• Tunde Victor Ojumu (University of Cape Town, South Africa) for travel to Austria for research on “The Effects of Total Iron Concentration on the Microbial Ferrous-Iron Oxidiation Kinetic of Leptospirillium Ferriphillum”

Graduate Intern

• Charmagne Elise Campbell-Patton (American University) to work at Africa Femmes Solidarite, Senegal.

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Robin Gee (Dance, University of North Carolina – Greensboro)
  “Jaba Don – A Multimedia Approach to Documenting West African Dance”
• Scott Youngstedt (Anthropology, Saginaw Valley State College)
  “The 5th Francophone Sports and Arts Festival: The World Comes to Niamey, Niger”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Tracy Carter (History, UCLA)
  “The Role of the Mandika Griot in Gambian Political History”
• Gretchen Pfiel (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
  “The Epistemology and Economy of effect in New Church Missions to the Wolof of Dakar, Senegal”
  2011 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship winners. Her dissertation, Sarax, and Sutura: Alms and the virtue of discretion in Dakar, Senegal, examines the relationship between almsgiving and the everyday ethics of discretion in Dakar, Senegal.

Residency

• The University of Wisconsin, African Studies Program hosting Karen King Aribisala (University of Lagos, Nigeria)

Travel Grantees

• Ademola O. Abass (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) to present “The Impact of the Internet on the Coaching Ability of Elite African Coaches at the 8th All African Games in Abuja, Nigeria” at a conference in Botswana.
• Amigun Bamikole (University of Cape Town, South Africa) for research in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania on Biofuel Industries.
• Solange Bandiaky (Clark University) for research in Senegal on “Gendered Interconnections among the World Bank, the Senegalese Government, and Local Communities in Natural Resource Management”
• Kumordzi Bright Boye (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana) for research in Ghana on “Man and Elephants: the Situation at the Digya National Park in Ghana”
• Olufemi Adegbola Adegbesan (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) for research in Germany on “Coping: A Critical Mediating Factor in Stress Relationships of Athletes in West African Countries”
• Souleymane Diouf (Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal) for research in California on “John Steinbeck”

Graduate Interns

• Lauren Arrington (Georgetown University) to work at a labor and delivery clinic, in The Gambia
• Kwadwo Gyase (University of Illinois) to work at the Aya Center, Ghana

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Ivor L. Miller (African Diaspora Studies, DePaul University)
  “Trans-Atlantic Narratives of an African-Derived Brotherhood in Cuba”
• Fallou Ngom (Department of Modern Classical Languages, Western Washington University)
  “Arabic-based Writing Scripts in Senegal”  (2011  John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship)

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Rebecca Tamar Cover (University of California – Berkeley)
  “Documentation and Description of the Badiaranké Language”
• Rebecca Golden (Tulane University)
  “The Ijaw Youth Council: A Study of Violence in the Niger Delta of Nigeria”

Residency

• University of Wisconsin-Madison, Primatology Department hosting Inza Kone (Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques and University of Cocody, Côte d’Ivoire)

Travel Grantees

• Olufunke Adeboye (University of Lagos, Nigeria) to present “Diaries as Cultural and Intellectual Histories: Some Examples from Twentieth-Century Yorubaland” at a conference at the University of Texas, Austin.
• Amadou T. Fofana (University of Wisconsin – Madison) for research in Senegal and Burkina Faso on “West African Cinema”
• Barrel Gueye (SUNY- Binghamton) for research in Senegal on “Perspectives on Gender, Identity, and Education: an Ethnographic Study of the Discontinuity of Adolescent Schooling in Senegal”
• Moulaye Keita (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) for research in Mauritania on “Les Haratin de Mauritanie: quelle approche?”
• Smart Egwu Otu (University of the Western Cape, South Africa) for research on “Drug Traffickers and Trafficking: A Sociological Analysis of Selected Inmates in Pollsmoor and Goodwood Prisons, Cape Town, South Africa”
• Marianne Soumaré Sarr (La Raddho) for research in Illinois on “Nation et Paix: La question identitaire au coeur du conflit casamançais”

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Amy Lawson (Anthropology, University of Michigan)
  “The Past 2000 Years in the Gambia Valley”
• Michelle Rhee (Medicine, Stanford University)
  “Knowledge of Malaria and Use of malaria Prevention Measures Following an Insecticide-Treated Bednet Community Program in Piron, Mali”

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Julie Hunter (Ethnomusicology, Brown University)
  “Women Making and Marketing Music: Ewe Women’s Performance, Power, and Politics in Contemporary Ghana”
• Daniel Mensher (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  “Whose Fish are These?: Decentralization’s impact on Malian fishers”

Residencies

• Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies hosting Anthony Ijaola Asiwaju (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
• Brandeis University, Romance and Comparative Literature Department hosting Aminata Maïga Ka (Senegalese Author)

Travel Grantees

• John Collins (University of Ghana) for research in Ghana on  “West African Highlife Music”
• Bertin K. Kouadio (Florida International University) for pre-dissertation research in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
• Birahim Bouna Niang (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) “Les Déterminants de la Croissance dans les Pays de l’UEMOA”
• J. Ako Okoro (University of Ghana, Legon) for archival research on Salaga at the Public Records Office, London
• Magloire Somé (Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso) for research in Senegal on “La Politique de la France à l’Egard des Missions Etrangères en AOF”

Graduate Interns

• Marisa Guptarak (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) to work at The Voluntary Counseling and Testing Clinic, Ghana
• Adrienne N. Pickett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) to work at The Senegalese-American Bilingual School

Pre-Doctoral Fellows

• Tara Deubel (Anthropology, University of Arizona)
  “Conserving Cultural Heritage with Microcredit in Mali”
• Christey Carwile Routon (Anthropology, Southern Illinois University) “Women’s Healing Associations and Fertility in Nigeria”
• Colin T. West (Anthropology, University of Arizona)
  “Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting among the Mossi in Burkina Faso”

Collaborative Scholars-in-Residence Fellows (forerunner to Residency Fellowship Program)

• Ernest N. Emenyonu (University of Michigan – Flint) worked in collaboration with Bertram I. N. Osuagwu (Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Nigeria) on “The Igbo Translation Project”

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Travel Grantees

• Oluyemisi Bamgbose (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) to present “Cultism and the Hope of Youths in Higher Institutions in Nigeria” at a conference about “Nigeria in the Twenty-First Century” at the University of Texas.
• Inza Koné (University of Cocody, Côte d’Ivoire) for research at the Bayreuth University and the Max Plamck Institute, Germany
• Boube Namaiwa (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) for attendance at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
• Ngozi L. Nwodo (University of Nigeria) for attendance at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Shannon Marquez (University of Iowa)
  “Participatory Approaches to Environments Improvements for Control of Urban Malaria and Waterborne Diseases in The Gambia”
• Bjorn C. Westgard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  “Postcolonial Treatment: Articulating Bodies, Knowledge, and Communities in Fatick, Senegal”

Collaborative Scholars-in-Residence Fellows

• Portia E. Cobb (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee) worked in collaboration with Ibrahima Seck (Lycée Blaise Diagne, Senegal) on “The Roots of Blues Culture: A Video Documentary”

Travel Grantees

• Joseph Akinkugbe Adelegan (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) to present “Urban Solid Waste Generation Pattern and Health in Mid-21st Century Nigeria” at the Environmental Health and Risk Conference in the United Kingdom
• Ayoade Raufu Adepoju (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) for research in Cote d’Ivoire on “Folklore in the Works of Bernard Binlin Dadié”
• Ako Essien (University of Gambia) to present “Wronged, Misunderstood, Misjudged and Condemned: The Protagonist’s Fate in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Lemona’s Tale” at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
• Ben K. Fred-Mensah (Hamilton College) for research in Ghana on “Looking Up to the Victims: Land Scarcity and Women’s Role in Household Food Provisioning”
• Moulaye Ismaël Keïta (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) to present “Mutations sociales à Mouakchott: Famille et marginalité juvénile” at a conference in France
• Brempong Osei-Tutu (Syracuse University) for research in Ghana on “Contested Monuments: African America and the Political Economy of the Commodification of Ghana’s Slave Castles”
• Mamadou Sy (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) for research at Northwestern and Michigan State Universities on “Le Dimar au XIXe siècle”

Graduate Interns

• Flora Jennifer Jones (University of Virginia) researching “Political Factors Influencing a Government’s Response to the AIDS Epidemic in Senegal”
• Yazmine Watts (Western Michigan University) researching “Women’s Political Participation in Senegal’s Transition to Democracy”

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Monica Lorine Belmonte (Georgetown University)
  “An Orderly Evolution: The US, Decolonization in Nigeria and the Civil Rights Movement”
• Jonathan Reynolds (Department of History and Geography, Northern Kentucky University)
  “Islam and Indirect Rule in British Colonial West Africa”

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Collaborative Scholars-in-Residence Fellows

• Stephen Golub (Swarthmore College) worked in collaboration with Ahmadou Aly Mbaye (Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal) on “Senegal’s International Competitiveness: Case Studies of the Groundnut, Fishing and Textile Sectors”

Graduate Interns

• Rhondale-Marie Barras (Clark Atlanta University) researching “Polygyny in Senegal”
• Angela Brown (Yale University) researching “A Study of Sabar Songs and Their Importance Among the People of Senegal”
• Kyan Celise Thornton (University of Minnesota) researching art and archaeology at the Legon University Museum, Ghana

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Alice Burmeister (Winthrop University)
  “The Art of West African Factory-Printed Textiles”
• Kathryn C. Lavelle (Cleveland State University)
  “Emerging Equity Markets in Africa”

Graduate Interns

• Solimar Otero (University of Pennsylvania) researching “Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Cuban and Brazilian Yoruba Community in Lagos, Nigeria”
• Yasmina Porter (University of Wisconsin – Madison) researching “An Autobiography of Maware Opoku, A Ghanaian Cultural Icon”
• Rashid Kwame Shabazz (Yale University) researching “Hip Hop Music in Ghana”

Pre and Post Doctoral Fellows

• Ekpo Okpo Eyo (University of Maryland – College Park)
  “1998 Archeological Excavations in Calabar in Cross River Valley, South Eastern Nigeria”
• Martha Saavedra (University of California – Berkeley)
  “Women, Sports and Development in Senegal”

Graduate Interns

• Nanette Christ (Johns Hopkins University) researching “Land Redistribution in Togo”
• Maxine Downs (University of Florida) researching “The Impact of Credit on Malian Women Entrepreneurs”
• Donna Patterson (Indiana University) researching “Female Entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana”

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Michael J. Boivin (Indiana Wesleyan University)
  “Assessment of the Children and Families of Senegal”
• Laura S. Grillo (Millsap College)
  “Research on Divination: The Innovation and Adaptation of Traditional Religions in Response to the Contingencies of Contemporary Urban West Africa”
• Lisa McNee (Queens University)
  “Initiations: Childhood and Children’s Literature in West Africa”

Graduate Interns

• Mercedes Cabrera-Cuaresma (University of Florida) worked at West African Women’s Association, Senegal
• Trudy-Ann Forbes (Howard University) researching “The Use and Impact of Pesticides and an Assessment of Alternatives”

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1996 WARA Grantees

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• Loyce Author (SUNY – Stony Brook)
  “The Role of the Artist in Ghana: Past, Present and Future”
• Vera Viditz-Ward (Bloomsburg University)
  “Photographs of Urban West Africa: A Comparative Approach”
• Raymond Winbush (Fisk University)
  “W. E. B. DuBois: Intellectual Links from Fisk to Accra”

Graduate Interns

• Nicole Hodges (University of California – Los Angeles) researching “Senegalese Artists and the West African Research Center (WARC)”
• Wanda Porter (Howard University) researching “Women in Development”
• Torrance Stephens (Emory University)  researching the development of multimedia language tools in Wolof and Bambara for use in undergraduate language training.

1995 WARA Grantees

Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellows

• John Heilbrunn (Institut d’Etude d’Afrique Noire, France)
  “National Conferences of Benin and Togo”
• Pamela F. Pozarny (University of Florida)
  “Rural Anthropology in Togo”
• Lisa Smith (University of Wisconsin)
  “Nutrition at the Household Level”

Graduate Interns

• Dell Everest (Howard University) researching “The Role of Women in Water Supply and Sanitation”
• Caroline Gray (Jackson State University) researching community and economic development in Ghana
• Shawnn R. Guthrie (San Jose State University) researching FM Radio Stations in Ghana