2020 AfOx Visiting Fellows
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Dr Abera Kenay Tura
Haramaya University, Ethiopia |Nuffield Department of Population Health, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Marian Knight
Collaboration to establish the Ethiopian Obstetric Survey Systems
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Prof Ameha Muluneh
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford |Oxford collaborator: Prof David Pyle
An Investigation of deformation patterns in the Main Ethiopian Rift
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Dr Anani Badje
Programme PACCI, Côte d’Ivoire | Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Peter Horby
Emerging infectious diseases in the context of climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Dr Cindy George
South African Medical Research Council, South Africa | The George Institute for Global Health, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Mark Woodward
The story of cocoa in Ghana: the social, economic and environmental evolution of Ghana’s cocoa sector
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Dr Dimakatso Gumede
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa |Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford|Oxford collaborator: Prof William James
Solving partial differential equations via rational functions
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Dr James Njunge
KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya | Department of Paediatrics, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Holm Uhlig
Is systemic LPS a marker of intestinal dysfunction and a driver of systemic inflammation and mortality among acutely ill undernourished children
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Dr Mkunde Chachage
Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania | Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Dr Jethro Johnson
Establishing a collaboration for studying dysbiosis in the gut microbiome of HIV-helminth co-infected Africans/Tanzanians
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Dr Nosiphiwo Zwane
University of Eswatini, Eswatini | Department of Physics| Oxford collaborator: Prof Subir Sarkar
Cosmological tests of Cosmic Acceleration due to Inflationary Quantum Fluctuations
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Dr Peter Amadi
Imo State University, Nigeria | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof William James
Impact of Zika virus infection on the metabolic state of microglia, and neural progenitors
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Dr Sadio Soukouna
University of Bamako, Mali | Oxford Department of International Development | Oxford collaborator: Prof Loren Landau
Mechanisms and figures of local governance of mobility in Africa
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Dr Sara Abdel Gaber
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute, Egypt | Department of Materials, Oxford | Oxford collaborator:Prof J.T.Czernuszka
Development of natural polymer-based scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration
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Dr Ismaila Emahi
University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana | Department of Chemistry, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Richard Compton Electrode Modification Strategies for Toxic Metal Detection via Voltammetry -
Dr Tolulope Adeleye
Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria| Department of Engineering, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Ian Thompson
Improving the efficiency of hydrolysis in Anaerobic Digesters
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Dr Asante Lucy Mtenje
University of Malawi, Malawi | African Studies Centre, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Wale Adebanwi
Sexualities, Popular Arts and Culture, Malawian oral literature, Religion and Gender
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Dr George Bob-Milliar
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana | African Studies Centre, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof Miles Tendi
Party Politics and capital mobilisation in in Ghana
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Dr Emile Sunjo
University of Buea, Cameroon |The Faculty of Law, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Dr Roxana Willis
From peace-breakers to peace-makers? The role of the Anglophone diaspora in the Cameroon’s Separatist Conflict
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Dr Gcobani Qambela
University of Johannesburg, South Africa | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford| Oxford collaborator: Professor Lloyd Pratt
The Anthropology of Boyhoods
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Dr Endalkachew Hailu Guluma
Arba Minch University, Ethiopia | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities, Oxford | Oxford collaborator:Dr Amanda Power
An Ecocritical Revaluation of Traditional Environmental Thought and Ecological Knowledge of the Aari of Southern Ethiopia
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Dr Alice Nyawira Karuri
Strathmore University, Kenya | Department of Zoology, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof EJ Milner-Gulland
Sustainability in global commodity chains: an institutional analysis of farmer organisations
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Dr Krossy Mavakala
University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Department of Zoology, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof EJ Milner-Gulland
Maluku : The flow of Wildmeat from Rural DR Congo
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Dr Suzanne Mogue Kamga
IITA-Cameroon, Eco-regional Center , Cameroon| Department of Zoology, Oxford | Oxford collaborator: Prof EJ Milner-Gulland
Ecological sustainability and conservation of Bush Mango under Cocoa agroforestry systems
2019 Fellows
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Dr Audrey Gadzekpo
University of Ghana, Ghana | African Studies Centre | St Antony’s College
Microphone Battles: Wartime programming in the formative years of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation
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Dr Alemseged Beldados
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | School of Archaeology
The Later Stone Age of Southern Africa & the Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherers
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Dr August Mayai
University of Juba, South Sudan | Department of International Development | Brasenose College
An Evaluation of a Large-scale Health Investment in Eastern Africa
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Dr Rebecca Asare
Nature Conservation Research Centre, Ghana | School of Geography and the Environment
The story of cocoa in Ghana: the social, economic and environmental evolution of Ghana’s cocoa sector
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Dr Vusi Magagula
University of Eswatini, Swaziland | Mathematical Institute | Jesus College
Solving partial differential equations via rational functions
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Prof Audrey Mbogho
Pwani University, Kenya | TORCH | Wadham College
Gathering Language Data Through Crowdsourcing With A Focus On Kidawida
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Dr Salome Bukachi
University of Nairobi, Kenya | School of Geography and the Environment | Brasenose College
The gendered inequalities and violence associated with women and girls forced to collect water from distant sources when local water infrastructure fails
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Dr Siana Nkya
Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania | Department of Oncology | St. Peter’s College
Establish MinION DNA sequencing platform for Hemoglobinopathies for use in Tanzania
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Dr Stephen Titus
Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria | TORCH | Merton College
Musical Narratives on Oil Exploration, Land Degradation, (In)justice and (Dis)placement: in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
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Dr Bradley Frank
South African Radio Astronomical Observatory, South Africa | Astrophysics | St. Peter’s College
Post-processing science analysis of images and intensive writing of MIGHTEE-HI drafts, focusing on galaxies, groups and high-redshift detections
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Miss Sheena Talma
South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Seychelles | Nekton Oxford Deep Ocean Research Institute | Somerville College
Spatio-temporal abundance and distribution of ichthyoplankton within the Seychelles waters
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Dr Jennifer Appoo
Seychelles Islands Foundation, Seychelles | Nekton Oxford Deep Ocean Research Institute | Somerville College
Investigating the marine predator community around Aldabra to assess connectivity between shallow and deep sea ecosystems and the effectiveness of the Aldabra marine zonation strategy
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Dr Eniola Boluwaduro
Redeemer’s University, Nigeria | TORCH | All Souls College
Advice-Giving In Nigerian Doctor/Patient-Encounters
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Dr Vivienne Williams
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | Department of Zoology | All Souls College
African perspectives on cultural practices and wildlife trade in big cat conservation across southern Africa
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Dr Godwin Nchinda
The Chantal Biya International Reference Center for Research on the Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS, Cameroon | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine | Christ Church College
Developing new forms of DNA and viral vectored vaccines to harness dendritic cells insitu
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Dr Meron Taye
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | School of Geography and the Environment | St. Edmund Hall
Investigating large-scale climatic and oceanic variables that influence rainfall in the upper Awash basin and the inflow to the reservoir
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Dr Mourad Gridach
Ibn Zohr University, Morocco | Department of Computer Science| Wolfson College
Developing new model architecture to improve the accuracy of automated image segmentation and labelling of femur and cartilage tissue in MRI hip scan data
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Dr Aymar Bisoka
Catholic University of Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo | African Studies Centre | St. Anthony’s College
Decolonizing Knowledge in Francophone Africa: Reframing Peace and Conflict Studies
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Dr Joel Modiri
University of Pretoria, South Africa | Faculty of Law
Development of critical race theory in the South African jurisprudential context
2018 Fellows
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Dr Augustina Adusah-Karikari
Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana |Blavatnik School of Government (BSG) | Oriel College
Extractive industries and its impact on host communities -
Dr Tongai Maponga
University of Stellenbosch, South Africa | Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine | St. Peter’s College
Hepatitis B virus, hepatitis E virus, virology, immunology and hepatocellular carcinoma -
Dr Christine Nalwadda Kayemba
Makerere University, Uganda | Nuffield Department Population Health | Somerville College
Maternal and perinatal health with a focus to newborn health and health systems -
Dr Caesar Atuire
University of Ghana, Ghana | Department Of Psychiatry | All Souls College
Holistic and intercultural perspectives in Bioethics -
Dr Abdelrazek Bedir Abdelrazzak Ahmed
National Research Centre, Egypt | Department Of Oncology | Jesus College
The effect of ionizing radiation on perturbation of intercellular signaling between normal and pre-cancerous cells -
Dr Benta A. Abuya
African Population and Health Research Center, Kenya | Department Of International Development | Brasenose College
Education access and quality with special focus in girls education -
Dr Itai Magodoro
University of Cape Town, South Africa | Radcliffe Department of Medicine | Christ Church College
HIV-related cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa -
Prof Abi Alabo Derefaka
University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria | African Studies Centre | St. Antony’s College
African Archaeology and early History; Cultural Resource Management; Niger Delta Studies -
Dr Seifu Kebede
Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia | School of Geography and Environment | St. Edmund’s Hall
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Nicola De Jager
Stellenbosch University, South Africa | Brasenose College
Religion and democratization; comparative politics; Southern African politics and democratization -
Dr Amos Olalekan Abolaji
University of Ibadan, Nigeria | Department of Biochemistry | Hertford College
mechanisms of pathogenesis of chemical-induced neurodegenerative diseases such Parkinson`s Disease and the therapeutic roles of phytochemicals using Drosophila melanogaster as a model -
Prof Abdulkader Tayob
University of Cape Town, South Africa | Faculty of theology and religion | Mansfield College
Religion and Islam in Africa; modern Islamic intellectual history
2017 Fellows
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Prof. Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Midlands State University in Gweru, Zimbabwe | St Peter’s College
‘Zimbabwe, pre-colonial communities, liberation movements and the state’ -
Dr. Elima Jedy-Agba
Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria | Nuffield Department of population Health | Christ Church College
‘Trends and Projections in Cervical Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa’ -
Dr. David Ssevviiri
Makerere University, Uganda | Mathematical Institute | St Peter’s College
‘Local cohomology and cousin complexes’