Projects
(Self)Images of postcolonial West and Central Africa. An explorative study on African and European cinematographic representation in comparative perspective. University of Antwerp
Joining efforts to detect and control Plasmodium falciparum resistance in East and Central Africa. University of Antwerp
The First Bantu Speakers South of the Rainforest: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Human Migration, Language Spread, Climate Change and Early Farming in Late Holocene Central Africa Ghent University
The Bantu Expansion is not only the main linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It is also one of the most controversial issues in African History that still has political repercussions today. It has sparked debate across the disciplines and far beyond Africanist circles in an attempt to understand how the young Bantu language family (ca. 5000 years) could spread over large parts of Central, Eastern and ...
(Post)Colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s Ghent University
This project explores the transformations in cattle production in Southern and Central Africa during the colonial and early postcolonial period. During this period, (post)colonial governments, scientists, entrepreneurs and settlers promoted a broad range of interventions to overcome the allegedly uneconomic attitudes of African pastoralists and turn cattle into profitable commodities. Adopted, adapted, contested or eluded by African cattle ...
DECIPHERING DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS IN CENTRAL AFRICA KU Leuven
Developmental Disorders (DD) is a group of disorders characterized by a failure to achieve developmental milestones, with or without departing from the normal morphology, and present before the age of 18 years. These include developmental delay, intellectual disability (ID), birth defects, and certain psychiatric or neurological disorders. About 1 to 3% of children aged ≤5 are affected worldwide. Little is known in the African population ...
Improving the diagnostic work-up of neurological disorders in rural Central Africa Institute of Tropical Medicine
An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa. Ghent University
The question of prehistoric contact between indigenous hunter-gatherers and the first sedentary
communities in Western Central Africa has so far mainly been addressed by linguists, geneticists
and historians in relation to the Bantu Expansion, which is the initial migration of Bantu-speaking
communities across sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike in other parts of the continent and the world,
archaeologists have never ...
Enterprising merchants in the global Atlantic: Austrian-Netherlandish trade with West and Central Africa, 1776-1786 KU Leuven
Powered by an increasing European demand for exotic produce, a complex system of economic and demographic exchange emerged in the Atlantic basin during the Early Modern period. Traditionally, historians have attributed this Atlantic system to big colonial empires and their monopolistic trading companies. This has created a double blind spot. First, this perspective has overlooked the importance of minor maritime powers that relied on ...