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Project Team (Cameroon)

Professor Ahmadou Sehou

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Professor Ahmadou Sehou is Professor of Political and Social History at the University of Maroua (Cameroon). His work focuses on the history of slavery, the slave trade and memories of the slave trade in the African, Atlantic and Islamic contexts. He was Researcher-Resident at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Nantes (IEA) promotion 2020-2021. He also participates in the European project "Slavery in Africa: a dialogue between Europe and Africa" (Slafnet-Rise H2017-2023). He is an associate member of the Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique (CRHIA, Nantes University and University of La Rochelle) and of the International Association les Anneaux de la Mémoire with which he has conducted several studies on sites of memory and museums. He is also the founder and coordinator of the Centre d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique (CERPETA-Cameroon). He has just been appointed President of the African Slavery Researchers Network, created in Dakar on the 9th of November 2022.

Dr Samson Mengolo Mbel

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Dr Samson Mengolo Mbel is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of History and African Civilisations at the University of Buea (South West Cameroon). His research focuses on the archaeology of historical periods, the processes of patrimonialisation, and representations and uses of the history of the slave trade and slavery in Southern Cameroon. He is the author of a recent article on the La'a Pou memorial in Bangou, a post-slavery society in West Cameroon, published in NaKaN, A journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 1, 2022. He is a member of the Centre d'Études et de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique and has participated in the Slafnet and Slamranet programmes. He is currently team leader of the Afrab project for the West, South-West and North-West regions of Cameroon.

Nkwiyir Marina Mungfub

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Nkwiyir Marina Mungfub is a Postgraduate student at the Department of History, University of Buea, Cameroon. She is currently writing a PhD thesis on: 'Cultural Memory and Slavery in the Post Slavery Societies of the Grassfields of Cameroon'. In 2022, she was a panelist at an international conference organised by SLAFCO entitled 'Slavery in Africa: Knowledge and Openings' in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Her presentation focused on historically migrant workers in the coastal region of Cameroon: slave descendants between ideological hegemony and political powerlessness. Also in 2022, as a member of the AFRAB Cameroon team, she participated at the conference on 'La recherche sur les esclavages dans le monde : un état des lieux' jointly organised by l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie and la Fondation pour la Mémoire de l’Esclavage, in Dakar -Sénégal. Within the AFRAB Project, she is interested in identifying abolitionists in Cameroon where her work includes: conducting interviews, consulting archival documents and museum objects in the North West, South West and West regions.

Dr Joseph Jules Sinang

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Dr Joseph Jules Sinang is a lecturer in the History Department of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Humanities at the University of Yaoundé 1 in Cameroon and a researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et des Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et les Traites en Afrique (CERPETA). His work focuses on environmental history and issues of subjugation in contemporary societies in relation to otherness. Since 2017, he has participated in numerous research networks on slavery such as the European programme "Slavery in Africa (SLAFNET): A Dialogue between Europe and Africa" (H2020, Rise programme) devoted to the study of the history and legacy of slave trade and slavery, the projects Slavery, Memory and Race in Colonial and Postcolonial world (SLAMARANET) which questions the diversity of forms of slavery in relation to questions of race and citizenship and African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa  (AFRAB) where he is interested in the attitude of local chiefs to the Western abolition of the slave trade. In October 2023, he will join the Institut d'Etudes Avancées (IEA) in Nantes as a resident for a period of nine months, where he will develop his research project entitled, "Slavery in the forest-dwelling societies of Central Africa: Definitions, issues and legacies. 

Janvier Guidang Tchinabi

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Janvier GUIDANG TCHINABI is a student researcher in history at the University of Maroua in Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma as a Secondary School Teacher Second Grade (DIPES II). His research focuses on the history of slavery in the Lake Chad region, from its origins to the present day. He is a member of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique (CERPETA) and a project activity assistant for the AFRAB Project Cameroon Team.

Project Team (Ethiopia)

Dr. Takele Merid (Coordinator at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies of Addis Ababa University)

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Dr. Takele Merid is an assistant Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), Addis Ababa University (AAU). He graduated with BA in History in 2004 and MA in Cultural Studies and PhD in Social Anthropology, 2016 from Addis Ababa University. Between January 2005 and February 2008, he worked as a heritage expert for the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ethiopia. In March 2008, he joined IES and AAU, where he is still working as a researcher and Professor of Social Anthropology. Dr. Takele was a research fellow of University of Bath Spa, United Kingdom (2018) and is currently research fellow of Hamburg University. He is an active researcher in the ERC funded SLAFNET Network. He oversees and coordinates the AFRAB Project's research in Ethiopia and focuses on the life and times of Emperor Menelik in relation to slavery and abolition.

Professor Yonas Ashine

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Yonas Ashine is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Addis Ababa University. He earned his PhD in interdisciplinary Social Studies from Makerere Institute of Social Studies, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. His research interests include political theory, and comparative politics of state-society relations in Africa and from Africa. Within Project AFRAB, Professor Yonas Ashine focuses his work on the early twentieth century history and is working on the interlink of government abolitionist laws and traditional forms of manumission to understand the public acceptance of an abolitionist ideology.

 


Professor Ahmed Hassen

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Prof. Dr. Ahmed Hassen holds a PhD from Université Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (2007). He is an Ethiopian historian, university lecturer and former Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies (IES), 2012-2019. He served as Addis Ababa University’s Director for Change Management (2019-2020) and is currently Director of External Relations Partnership and Communication at Addis Ababa University. He served as a post graduate coordinator of the IES and has over the years been involved with various international research projects, in the USA, France, Germany, and Japan. Currently he is the Ethiopian Co-PI of the ERC funded SLAFNET (Slavery in Africa: A Dialogue between Africa and Europe). He was Board Chairperson of the South Omo Research Centre, and PI and co-PI of various research projects of the IES/AAU (among them, Ancient Environmental, Settlement and Cultural Reconstruction, Contemporary Urban Issues in Ethiopia and The Dynamics of Population Mobility and the Implications in Ethiopia). He is an expert on 18th and 19th century Ethiopia, rural sociology, the history of slavery, trade and economics in the Horn of Africa. He also acts as board member of the Journal of Ethiopian Studies, as well as of the International Conference of Ethiopian Studies. He is the author of Aleyyu Amba: L’Ifat et ses réseaux politiques, religieux et commerciaux au XIXe siècle (vol 6. Annales d’Éthiopie Hors-Séries. Addis Ababa: Editions de Boccard, 2020).

Within the AFRAB project Professor Ahmed Hassen works on the suppression of the slave trade and its impact on the rural economy and the trade centres. His research on the aftermaths of abolition in Ethiopia has been featured in an article by Fred Harter in the Guardian of 18 January 2023, the Guardian article: how Ethiopia is in denial about injustices of the past.


Dr Ameyu Godesso Roro

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Dr Ameyu Godesso Roro is an anthropologist from the Department of Sociology at Jimma University in Oromiya, Ethiopia. His research interests include peace and conflict studies, displacement and migration. He has lectured anthropology and sociology courses at Jimma University since 2004. He worked as a research fellow at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale) - Germany, where he completed his PhD in 2017. He is now the Managing Editor of the Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Language Studies, one of the nationally accredited journals in Ethiopia. He has published many articles in peer-review journals and his latest co-authored book chapter “Ethiopian Diaspora and Its Impact on Politics in Ethiopia” was published by Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa (USA) in 2021. For Project AFRAB, Dr Ameyu Godesso Roro focuses his research on slavery and abolition in Jimma and more broadly in southern Ethiopia.

Dr Bosha Bombe Reta

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Dr Bosha Bombe Reta holds a PhD in History from the University of Pavia, Italy. He is both an historian and an anthropologist by training: he holds a BA in History and an MA in Social Anthropology. His doctoral thesis is entitled "An Historical Anthropology of Slavery and Gabbar Servitude System in Wolaita of southern Ethiopia from 1894 to 1975". He is currently Head of the Department of Social Anthropology at Arba Minch University. His research interests include slavery and post-slavery, class, power relations and economic organisation, social inequality, social and cultural history, ethnic history, labour history, indigenous institutions and conflict resolution. He is currently participating in the AFRAB research project under the Ethiopian team. He is currently working on three papers: The Role of Religious Organizations in Antislavery Wolaita of southern Ethiopia, From Slavery to Fitawrari and Government: the Role of a Former Slave in Combating the Marginalization of Former Slaves and their Descendants in Wolaita of Southern Ethiopia, and Combating Marginalization: The Post abolition Experiences of former Slaves and their descendants in Wolaita and Gamo of Southern Ethiopia.

Oljira Tujuba

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Oljira Tujuba is Senior Lecturer in History at the Kotebe University of Education in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His field of research is ethno-history, in particular the relationship between Oromo and Amhara in Western Ethiopia, on which he has published a book entitled "Ethnic Interaction: The Case of Oromo and Amhara in Western Ethiopia". Within the framework of the AFRAB project, Oljira Tujuba is researching the history of the abolition processes of slavery and the slave trade among the Oromo of Wallaga, in western Ethiopia.

Project Team (Ghana)

Professor Emmanuel Saboro (Coordinator, at the University of Cape Coast)

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Emmanuel Saboro (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in African Literature, Memory and Slavery Studies at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), African Humanities Programme and currently the Director for the Centre for African and International Studies, University of Cape Coast. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), University of Hull, England. He has extensively studied and published on oral and material cultures of enslavement amongst northern communities in Ghana over the last decade.

He is the author of Wounds of Our Past: Remembering Captivity, Enslavement and Resistance in African Oral Narratives (2022) published in the Global Slavery Series, Brill Leiden and Boston.

For Project AFRAB, Professor Emmanuel Saboro oversees and coordinates the AFRAB Project's research in Ghana and focuses, geographically, on northern Ghana and thematically on some key figures of Ghanaian abolitionism.


Anita Kporkpor Pobi

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Anita Kporkpor Pobi is a Graduate student in the Department of History, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. She obtained her BA (Hons) English and History from the University of Cape Coast in 2017. Her Mphil thesis examined women in the Supreme Court of the Fourth Republic of Ghana: 1991-2007. Her research interests include African history, Anti-slavery discourses, Africans in the Diaspora, Women and Judicial History. She is a Research Assistant on the AFRAB Ghanaian team covering Slavery and Abolition in the Asante and Fante Regions of the Nineteenth Century Gold Coast.

Samuel Ato Bentum

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Samuel Ato Bentum is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast, Ghana where he had his first degree, B. A (Hons.) in Linguistics and English. He is currently a postgraduate student with the Department of English pursuing an MPhil in Literature-in-English. His research interests include Slavery and Anti-Slavery Discourses, Ghanaian Slave Literature, and African and African American/ Diaspora Studies.  He is a Research Assistant on the Ghana team on the AFRAB project, African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa.

Project Team (Guinea), July 2021 - January 2022

Dr Brahima Kaba (Coordinator at the Université Julius Nyerere de Kankan)   

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Brahima KABA is Assistant in Modern and Contemporary History at the Julius Nyerere University of Kankan (Guinea). His main publications are: "Guinean migrants or candidates for death in the Mediterranean (2000-2016)", in Folofolo, Journal of African Humanities and Civilizations, N° December 2018, pp. 46-64 ; "Explanatory approach to the conflictual relationship between Léopold Sedar Senghor and Sékou Touré (1958-1973)”, in Performances : Multidisciplinary scientific journal, N° 8, December 2018, pp. 79-94 ; "Ethnic belonging and political life in Guinea from 1945 to 2015", Societies & Economies Magazine, Special issue - Colloquium 2019, pp. 25-41. Within Project AFRAB he focuses on President Sekou Touré's anti-slavery policies and on the legacies of slavery in the Fouta Jalon, the Rio Pongo and Rio Nunez regions, and Conakry.

Professor Seydou Magassouba

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Professor Seydou Magassouba holds a PhD from Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne (2004). He is a Guinean historian whose work focuses on the history of Guinea from the Middle Ages to the present day. He served as the Head of the Department of History at both the General Lansana Conté University of Sonfonia / Conakry (2005 to 2006) and at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences of Gamal Abdel Nasser University in Conakry (1989-2004). He was the Director of the Advanced Studies Department at the Kindia University Center (2009-2010). He served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Kindia (2010-2017). Currently, Professor Magassouba is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Director of the Laboratory of Social Sciences LASSO at the Université Julius Nyerere of Kankan in Guinea. He has extensive experience on slavery and its legacies in Guinea and acts as senior scientific advisor for the AFRAB Project's research activities in Guinea.

Project Team (Kenya)

Professor Samuel Nyanchoga (Coordinator at the Catholic University of East Africa)

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Samuel A Nyanchoga (1961) is a professor of history and the current Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. A Fulbright Scholar, Boston College, USA. He is currently a researcher in AFRAB (AFRICAN ABOLITIONISM); SLAMRANET project member: Slavery, Memory and Race in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds funded by CNRS (Centre national de la recherché scientifique) and Project researcher in Slavery in Africa Network (SLAFNET). He has published books, book chapters and journal articles on a wide range of subjects including slavery studies.

For the AFRAB Project, Professor Nyanchoga oversees research on slavery and abolitionism in coastal East Africa. His own research focuses specifically on the so-called "Bombay Africans" and on slavery, resistance and abolition in Takaungu, Ghasi Shimoni and Simba hills. He works as full-time associate researcher in the period August 2021-February 2022, and is a permanent member of the Project's Scientific Advisory Board.


Velma N. Moraa

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Miss Velma N. Moraa holds Masters degree in built environment from the University of Nairobi. She is currently pursuing PhD studies in Urban Heritage in Coastal Kenya. She has served as research assistant on Charismatic Movement in Sub Saharan Africa funded by the Templeton Foundation USA. The Programme was a collaborative effort between The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Notre Dame University USA and Spiritan Mission Enugu, Nigeria. Velma undertakes research on the Bombay Africans in archives in Nairobi and Mombasa for Project AFRAB.

Ian Nyanchoga

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Ian is an Advocate of High Court of Kenya and a Commissioner of Oaths. He has a Bachelor of Laws (LLB - Hons) from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and Post Graduate Diploma (PG.D) from the Kenya School of Law. Ian is also a trained litigator before all subordinate and superior Courts in Kenya as well as a member of the Association of Young Arbitrators.

Through his practice, Ian has developed extensive research experience and expertise in local and cross border contractual laws, including the study of treaties and decrees. He brings in a legal opinion in the interpretation of historical treaties and decrees associated with slavery in the African Swahili coast.


Project Team (Niger)

Dr Oumarou Moussa

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Dr Oumarou Moussa is a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Education of the Djibo Hamani University of Tahoua (Niger). With his basic training as a primary and secondary school teacher, he has been a pedagogical inspector for secondary education since 2019. His academic work focuses on the teaching of history, Islam and slavery. This last theme, on which he has been working since 2008, is the subject of his master's and DEA theses, and of the single doctoral thesis defended in 2022 at Abdou Moumouni University. He has participated in international research programmes such as PER-Esclavages and LESLAN (Legacies of Slavery in Niger). In the latter, he coordinated the writing of the Study on Slavery in Niger, published by AKASA, Niamey/Niger. He published an article entitled: "L'esclavage dans la société zarma-soŋay depuis le XIXè siècle: Les raisons d'une persistance", published in the Revue Histoire et Archéologie n°4 of June 2019.  He is currently involved in the AFRAB project where he coordinates the activities of the Niger section.

Dr Alakarbo Hassimou

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Dr Alakarbo Hassimou is a Nigerian lecturer and researcher who works on social, political and cultural dynamics in Niger. He has participated in several scholarly meetings on these themes.  He is currently the deputy head of the Department of History and Popular Traditions at the Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines (IRSH) at the Abdou Moumouni University of Niamey (Niger). He is also Technical Advisor to the Commission of Social and Cultural Affairs of the National Assembly of Niger. He is a member of the Religions and Societies Laboratory and a member of the team of researchers participating in the AFRAB project in Niger.  Within the framework of the AFRAB project, Dr Alakarbo is studying the role of women in the abolitionist movement in Niger.

Abdoulaye Tchiambou

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Abdoulaye Tchiambou is a high school teacher and researcher based in Niamey (Niger). His research focuses on slavery issues, and in 2008 he commenced his research in the framework of the PER-Esclavages programme. Abdoulaye defended his master's thesis on slavery issues in 2009 and intends to continue his studies in 2023. He has participated in several scientific meetings on slavery, notably in Aix en Provence in 2008 and in Dakar in 2022. He is currently a researcher with the AFRAB-Niger team. He is working on a comparative analysis of the abolitionist approach of two Nigerien organisations fighting against slavery, namely Timidria and RDM Tanafili.

Project Team (Nigeria)

Professor Olutayo Adesina (Coordinator at the University of Ibadan) 

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Olutayo Charles Adesina is the current Head, Department of History, Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Between 2015 and 2018, he was Director, Centre for General Studies, University of Ibadan.Prof. Adesina is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (FNAL), the apex organisation of humanistic scholars in Nigeria. He has been a recipient of several other distinguished visiting Fellowship Awards, including the Fellowship of Salzburg Seminar, Austria; Atlantic History Seminar, Charles Warren Center, Harvard University; the African Visiting Fellow, Rhodes Chair of Race Relations, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, U.K.; and, Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA. His publications include: “A Terrain…Angels Would Fear to Tread”: Biographies and History in Nigeria, Southern Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 45 No. 1, June 2020; and Oyo: History, Tradition and Royalty. Essays in Honour of His Imperial Majesty the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba (Dr.) Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III. Ibadan, Ibadan University Press, 2021. 201pp (edited with Siyan Oyeweso). Prof. Adesina is the current Editor of Africa Review; an interdisciplinary academic journal now being published by Brill. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the Ibadan School of History. Within AFRAB, Professor Adesina oversees and coordinates the research activities of his team in various regions of Nigeria.

Dr Monsuru Muritala

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Monsuru Muritala, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Ibadan, Ibadan. He was a Cadbury visiting fellow of the Department of History and Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom (2015); British Academy visiting fellow of the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom (2018); AHP fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS); and Post-Doctoral Fellow, African Centre for Career Enhancement and Skills Support (ACCESS), University of Leipzig, Germany (2020). He specializes in Nigerian, Economic and Urban History. He is the author of “Livelihood in Colonial Lagos”. He is currently a member of the Nigerian AFRAB Research team covering south - west and overseeing the rest of the regions in Nigeria.

Oluwafisayo Olorunfemi

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Oluwafisayo Olorunfemi is a social development practitioner and African research enthusiast with over five years’ experience in social development. She serves as program officer with AID Foundation. She believes in Africa's development and is interested in grooming youths who will become Africa's Change Agents through their involvement in community development. Her research interests include; Global Development and Policy Making, Peace building, Conflict Resolution and Strategic Development. She is currently an AFRAB Research Associate and in this role, she focuses on the Northern Nigeria region.

Nwachukwu Uzoamaka

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Nwachukwu Uzoamaka is a Doctoral candidate in the Department of History, University of Ibadan. She obtained her B.A and M.A History in 2014 and 2018 from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Uzoamaka research focus is on social and economic History. She is currently a member of the Nigerian AFRAB Research team covering south-east and south-south regions.

Project Team (Tanzania)

Dr Salvatory S. Nyanto 

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Dr Salvatory S. Nyanto is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Dar es Salaam, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University. He completed his PhD in history at the University of Iowa in the United States of America with a study about slave emancipation, Christian communities, and dissent. He is the author of ‘Ujamaa, Small Christian Communities and Moral Reform in Western Tanzania,’ The Catholic Historical Review 106, no. 2 (Spring 2020),‘The Empire Strikes Back: Communities, Catholic Missions, and Imperial Authority in Western Tanzania, 1934-1960,’ The Catholic Historical Review 105, no. 1 (Winter 2019), ‘Priests without Ordination: Catechists in Villages beyond Missions, Western Tanzania, 1948–1978’ The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 108, No. 3 (Summer 2022), and with Felicitas Becker, James Giblin, Ann McDougall, Alexander Meckelburg, and Lotte Pelckmans ‘Researching the Aftermath of Slavery in Mainland East Africa: Methodological, Ethical and Practical Challenges’ Slavery and Abolition, Vol. 44, Issue 1 (2022). His current monograph Slave Emancipation and Christian Communities in Post-Abolition Tanzania 1878-1978 is under contract with James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. In addition to his monograph, Nyanto is co-editing a book project, A History of Postcolonial Tanzania: Essays in Honor of Prof. Isaria N. Kimambo which is under contract with Mkuki na Nyota Publishers.

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Magumba J. Magongo is an MA (History) student at the University of Dar es Salaam. He completed his bachelor degree (BAED) at Saint Augustine University of Tanzania (SAUT), specializing in History and Geography. His research “Slave Narratives, Tourism Avenues and Everyday life in Bagamoyo” is under AFRAB Project, “Beyond African Abolitionism: Communities, Memories, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Tanzania.”

Happiness Emmanuel Msacky

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Ms. Happiness Emmanuel Msacky is an MA (History) student at the University of Dar es Salaam. She graduated with Bachelor of Arts in History from University of Dar es Salaam in 2020. Her research “Heritage of Slavery in Bagamoyo: Memory, Community and Legacy, the 1960s-2023” is under AFRAB Project, “Beyond African Abolitionism: Communities, Memories, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Tanzania.”

Elizabeth Solomon

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Elizabeth Solomon Mwamwaja is a History Curator at the Arusha Declaration Museum which is under the National Museum of Tanzania. She graduated with BA in History and Archeology from the University of Dar es Salaam in 2008. She is a member ICOM (International Council of Museums) since 2015. She has been a research assistant in the different research projects conducted by the National Museum. She has been involved in the establishment of the Museum of the then ICTR (International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda) in Arusha Tanzania. Ms. Elizabeth S. Mwamwaja is currently an MA (History) student at the University of Dar es Salaam. Her research project “Memories and Identity of Slavery in Post-Abolition Ujiji” is undertaken alongside her work towards the AFRAB Project, “Beyond African Abolitionism: Communities, Memories, and Identity in Twentieth-Century Tanzania.”.

Project Team (UK)

Dr Benedetta Rossi

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Principal investigator, conducts research on/in in Francophone West Africa region and works with teams in all the regions of geographic research focus.  

Dr Alexander Meckelburg

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Postdoctoral researcher, conducts research on/in Ethiopia and works closely with local teams in this region. 


Dr Michelle Liebst

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Postdoctoral researcher, conducts research on/in Anglophone East Africa and works closely with local teams in this region. 

Dr. Michael Ehis Odijie

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Postdoctoral researcher, conducts research on/in Anglophone West Africa and works closely with local teams in this region. 


Melanie Horstead

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AFRAB's Project Administrator.

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This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 885418).