Press Releases

2022:

• Radio interview with BIGSAS Junior Fellow Andreas Wüst on the topic of "Morocco: Football as Soft Power" (interview in German)
  
• Frobenius Research Grant Award for BIGSAS Alumna Valerie Nur (German article)
• "Building Bridges": Federal Cross of Merit for Bayreuth African Studies Alumnus
• Federal Cross of Merit for BIGSAS Alumnus Dr Hanza Diman (German article)
• BIGSAS honorary doctorate for the West African sociologist and women's rights activist Fatou Sow
• Dr Fatou Sow to receive an honorary doctorate from the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies

2021:

• BIGSAS JF Mingqing Yuan and Alumna Joh Sarre honoured at the annual President's Dinner (Special achievements honoured at the President's Dinner, 22 November 2021)
• BIGSAS JF Oladapo Ajayi awarded 2021 Klaus Dieter Wolff Prize (Klaus-Dieter-Wolff-Preis Bildung ist der Schlüssel zum Erfolg, October 28)
• BIGSAS Alumna Sabrina Maurus honoured for her dissertation (German Anthropology Association honours dissertation of social anthropologist Sabrina Maurus, 21 October 2021)
• BIGSAS Junior Fellow Sabrina Maurus awarded Young Researcher Award for excellent and practice-relevant development research (Bayreuth Social Anthropologist Receives Prize for Development Research: Study on Compulsory Education in Ethiopia, 30 June 2021)

2019:

• BIGSAS JF Nikitta Adjirakor receives the DAAD Prize 2019 (Ehrungen für herausragende Leistungen an der Universität Bayreuth, 15 November 2019)
• Africa in Bayreuth: BIGSAS Journalist Award and Opening ceremony of The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (Afrika in Bayreuth: Verleihung des BIGSAS Journalist Award und Eröffnung des Exzellenzclusters „Africa Multiple“, 18 October 2019)
• BIGSAS Journalist Award 2019 (Ausschreibung: Journalist Award für exzellente Beiträge über Afrika, 24 June 2019)

2018:

• UBT will get a Cluster of Excellence (Erfolg in der Exzellenzstrategie von Bund und Ländern: Universität Bayreuth erhält ein Exzellenzcluster, 27 September 2018)
  
• UBT economists on the effect of food price changes on child labour in Uganda (Bayreuther Ökonomen zeigen: Verteuerte Lebensmittel lassen die Kinderarbeit steigen, 21 August 2018)
  
• Festival of African and African-Diasporic Literatures 2018 (Widerstand und Feminismus: BIGSAS-Literaturfestival in Bayreuth vom 25. bis 27. Juni 2018, 19 June 2018)
  

BIGSASworks!

The publication of the (online) journal BIGSASworks! appears in the series 'Working Papers' of the Institute of African Studies (IAS). Each volume contains miscellaneous thematic areas and this output of common or overlapping interests of the Junior Fellows offers a publication platform.

• 2024 "Unveiling the Harrowing Realities Kenyan Women Domestic Workers' Struggles for Freedom in Saudi Arabia"
  (DOI)
  
• 2024 "TURKISH ISLAMIC ACTORS IN AFRICA THE CASE STUDY OF HAYRAT VAKFI IN NIGER" (DOI)
  
• 2024 "“Are they just for venting out?” Exploring discourses on women-only Facebook Groups on television talk show programs in Egypt " (DOI)
  
• 2024 "Strömungen des Schwarzen Atlantiks Über akademische und politische Aushandlungen in der brasilianischen Afro-Diaspora" (DOI)
  
• 2024 "YAƘIN ƘWAƘWALWAI DIMENSION DÉCOLONIALE D’UN COMBAT ÉPISTÉMIQUE ET ÉTHIQUE AU SEIN DE L’ASSOCIATION IHYAOUS SUNNAH AU NIGER" (DOI)
  
• 2023 "Beyond human-centredness An ocean-centred reading of Celles qui attendent (Fatou Diome), Le pagne léger and Patera (Aïssatou Diamanka-Besland) " (DOI)
  
• 2023 " Preliminary Finding in the study of English-Hausa Translations"  (DOI)
  
• 2023 “Hanging out” with judicial and legal elites: Reflections on researching “up” https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00007387
  
• 2023 The Use of Social Media in Enacting Emotional Care to Elderly People During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence from Rwanda https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_0000738
  
• 2021 "Fieldwork Experiences and Practices in Africa" (DOI)
  

• 2019 "Gender and Social Encounters: Experiences from Africa" (DOI)
• 2018 "Living in African Cities: Urban Spaces, Lifestyles and Social Practices in Everyday Life" (URI)
• 2017 "Perspectives on Translation Studies in Africa" (URI)
• 2016 "Religion and Space: Perspectives from African Experiences" (URI)
• 2015 "Actors, Institutions and Changes: Perspectives on Africa" (URI)
• 2013 "Challenging Notions of Development and Change from Everyday Life in Africa" (URI)
• 2013 "The making of Meaning in Africa: Word, Image and Sound" (URI)
• 2012 "Trends, Discourses and Representations in Religions in Africa" (URI)
• 2011 "Women's Life Worlds 'In-Between'" (URI)