Geraldine Asiwome Ampah
is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon. She obtained her DPhil (PhD) in International Development from the University of Oxford and her MPhil and Bachelorâs degree in Sociology from the University of Ghana. Her research areas include âGlobal Southâ to âGlobal Northâ migration, African migration, migration and development, migration industry, transnational families, and remittances and other transnational transfers. Her previous research has explored themes such as âdoor-to-doorâ shipping operators in Ghanaian international migration, reverse remittances in the lives of African migrants in the West, African states and their engagement with the diaspora for development, and the identity formation of second-generation immigrants on the African continent. Her current research specifically explores the role of gender in some of Ghanaâs sectoral policies on digitalization.
Mayke Kaag
is Professor of the Anthropology of Politics and Governance in Africa at Leiden University. She is also Professor of the Anthropology of Islam in Africa and its diaspora at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on Africaâs global connections in such diverse domains as land issues, Islam, education, migration, and the politics of knowledge. At the African Studies Centre Leiden, she is the convenor of a collaborative research group on âAfrica in the World â Rethinking Africaâs Global Connectionsâ. She is also a co-convenor (together with István Tarrósy) of a collaborative research group on the same theme at the level of AEGIS (The European Association of African Studies).
Melina C. Kalfelis
is a Junior Professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Bayreuth, with a focus on social belonging. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in West Africa and Western Europe, her research deals with violence, crime, and belonging in contexts shaped by histories of global inequality. Her main interests include questions concerning ethics, governance, media, gender, and dynamics of (dis)trust in conflict settings and how these transgress in and link intimate, political, and transnational domains of everyday life.
Wiebe Nauta
is a sociologist of development at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research focuses on African climate
Mark Kwaku Mensah Obeng
is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon. He teaches primarily in the field of tradition and change and generally aims at offering his students and readers both historical and contemporary insights into some of the major forces of social change in Ghana. He has been writing broadly on the human aspects of ChinaâAfrica economic engagement and has published in many reputable journals, including Forum for Development Studies, Asian Ethnicity, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Contemporary Journal of African Studies, and Review of Social Studies. He is also an executive board member of the âChinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Networkâ and a research fellow at the Afro-Sino Centre for International Relations (ASCIR).
Abdourahmane Seck
is a senior lecturer at the University Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal. His research focuses on the production of social and symbolic connections in West Africa, particularly in the domain of religion, politics, and migration. He is the coordinator of the Group of Action and Critical Study â Africa (GAEC-Africa), a decolonial collective founded in Senegal in 2020.
István Tarrósy
is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pécs (UP), Hungary, and a visiting professor at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. He is the director of the Africa Research Center and head of the Doctoral Program in International Politics at UP. He is a member of the ChinaâAfrica Working Group and Courtesy Affiliate Professor at the Center for Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship (CAME) at the University of Florida. His research interests include Afro-Asian relations, the international relations and geopolitics of Sub-Saharan Africa, Hungarian and Central European foreign policies towards the Global South, and the changing world order. He is co-convenor of the AEGIS CRG âAfrica in the Worldâ (together with Mayke Kaag), and Editor-in-Chief of the Hungarian Journal of African Studies.
Alena Thiel
is an anthropologist whose work covers public sector digitalization, statistical production, and the development of health information systems in Ghana. She recently published The Social Life of Health Data: Health Records and Knowledge Production in Ghana (Palgrave, 2024) with Samuel Ntewusu.