Curriculum Vitae
Education and professional career
1983-86
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
1986-87
MA in Sociology, Faculty of Sociology, University of Strasbourg II (France)
1987-93
Ecole des Hautes des Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
1993
PhD Ecole des Hautes Etudes (thesis title: “Les Fulbe du Boobola. Genèse et évolution de l’État de Barani, Burkina Faso”, published thereafter by Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln, (see publications)).
1993-95
Postdoctoral Fellow in the framework of the Bielefeld “Market, State and Ethnicity” project, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld
1996-99
Research Fellow, Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld. Financial help from the German Research Board, in the framework of the research project “Ethnizitäten im Vergleich”
1999-2004
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale
2004
Habilitation, University of Leipzig
2005-2008
Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2008-2010
Lecturer, Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig
2007
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Ethnology, Gottingen
2008
Visiting Lecturer, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
2010
Lecturer in Anthropology and Cross-Cultural competencies at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg
2012
Visiting Lecturer, Centre for Leadership and Civic Education, Koblenz
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching
1995
Nomads and State in West Africa
Sociology of Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld
2000-2001
Nomads and State in West Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2001
Land Use in West Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2001
Introduction to Fulani Language (with Prof. Dr. E. Wolff)
Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig
2004-2005
Classics of Social Anthropology
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Halle
2005
Introduction to the Anthropology of the Sahel Zone
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2005-2006
Islam in West Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2006
Anthropology in France
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2006-2007
Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2007
Islam and Politics in West Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Halle
2007
Sahel Ethnography
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Göttingen
2008
Pastoral Societies in Sub-Sahara Africa
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich
2008-2009
Economic Anthropology
Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Leipzig
2008-2009
Nationalism and Decolonization in Sub-Saharan Africa, Music and Globalization, Gender, Everyday Life in Colonial Africa, West Africa before 1900, West Africa after 1900, Images of Africa, Ethnicity, Slavery, Nomads and Cultural Change
Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig
2010-2013
Cross-Cultural competency, cross-cultural awareness, intercultural dialogue, Islam in Europe, Conflict and African Security Policy
German Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg
2012-2013
Cross-Cultural competency, NATO Leadership Training, European Union Training Mission (Mali)
Centre for Leadership and Civic Education, Koblenz
Research
Burkina Faso, 1986-92 intermittent, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001;
Côte d'Ivoire, 1994, 1996-97, 2001;
Mali, 2000.
Languages
Dyula: native speaker
Fulfulde: native speaker
French: “native” speaker
German: fluent in speaking, listening, writing and reading
English:fluent in speaking, listening, writing and reading
Arabic: basic knowledge
Curriculum Vitae
Professional affiliations
German Anthropological Association (DGV)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
African Studies Association (ASA)
Network for Experts in Cross-Cultural Competencies
Presentations (Conferences, symposia, seminars)
2012
Cultural differences
Presented at Seminar NATO Multinational Pre-Clinical Mission Readiness Training PILOT, Hamburg, 17 January 2012.
2011
Côte d’Ivoire: The Limits of the Politics of Reconciliation
European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), Workshop: “Contested truths in Africa: facing power, transitional justice and memory politics”, Uppsala, 15-17 June 2011.
2010
Africa – Continent with Future? Developments, Crisis and Problems
Presented at the Seminar of the Ebelin & Gerd Bucerius Foundation, Area: Education/Governance, Hamburg, 26 January 2010.
2009
Exploring the Nexus of Science, Development and the Quest for Africa
Albrecht Daniel Thaer Colloquium 2009, Humboldt University Berlin, 12 November 2009.
2009
West Africa: Social, political and economic challenges
Paper presented at the Workshop on the “Project Go Africa…Go Germany 2009/10” Federal Agency of Civic Education, Potsdam, 26-27 June 2010.
2009
Elite in West Africa
Presented at the Conference „Elite and/without Development?“
Evangelical Academy, Wittenberg, 16-18 October 2009.
2008
Islam and Politics in West Africa
Presented at the Anthropological Seminar Zurich, 14 May 2008
2007
Music and Globalization in West Africa
Presented at the Seminar “Arts and Globalization”, Institute of Social Anthropology, University Strasbourg, 8 November 2007
2005
Joking Relations in Burkina Faso
Presented at the International Conference “The Politics of Joking Kinships in West Africa”
Sciences Politiques-CNRS, Paris, 27-29 October 2005
2005
Hunters and Identity Politics in Côte d’Ivoire
International Conference DGV: Konflikte- Menschenrechte-Interventionen, Workshop: The problem of legal self-help groups in Africa, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Halle/Saale, 04-07 October 2005.
2005
Landnutzung bei den Senufo im Norden der Côte d’Ivoire
Symposium: Mensch und Umwelt in Afrika, Museum für Völkerkunde, Dresden, 08 April 2005.
2005
Migrations et changements d’identité ethnique (Nord-ouest du Burkina Faso),
Presented at the Seminar « Groupe d’Etudes comparatives des sociétés peules », Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 14 February 2005.
2004
Anthropologie und Kolonialismus (Frankreich und Großbritannien): Geschichte, Konzeptionen und Begründungen, „Habilitationskolloquium“, University of Leipzig, 23 November 2004.
2003
Occupation et exploitation des espaces pastoraux dans le sud-ouest du Burkina Faso, Presented at the Seminar « Groupe d’Etudes comparatives des sociétés peules (GREFUL) », Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 13 January 2003.
2002
Pastoralists, farmers and the state (Côte d’Ivoire),
Presented at African Studies Association Conference, Washington D.C., 05-08 December 2002.
2002
The land use of the Fulbe and the politics of belonging among the Senufo (Northern Côte-d’Ivoire), presented at the International Conference on “Land rights and the politics of belonging in West Africa”, University of Frankfort, 03-05 October 2002.
2001
Conflict, Cooperation and Integration: A West African example (Côte-d’Ivoire),
Presented at the “West Africa Seminar”, University College London, 02 February 2001
2001
Eleveurs et agriculteurs du Komonola (Sud-Ouest du Burkina Faso),
Presented at the International Conference on « Environnement, histoire du peuplement et relations interethniques au Burkina Faso », University of Frankfort/University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, 04-06 December 2001.
2000
Processes and types of pastoral migration in northern Côte d’Ivoire,
Presented at the African Studies Seminar on “Moving people: trends in population mobility in Africa”, University of Leiden, 22 June 2000.
Expertise
Management of natural resources (northern Côte d’Ivoire), Project German Technical Cooperation-DRDB, Boundiali, September 1994.
“Remembering Slavery: Travelling hierarchies of Fulbe societies in Mali and France”, expertise for The Board of the Netherlands Foundation for the Advancement of Tropical Research (WOTRO) (Ref.: W 01.51.2004.100), The Hague, January 2004.
“Conflict, Poverty and Copying in the Lake Chad Region”, (University College of London), expertise for Nuffield Foundation”, (Ref.: SGS/32110), London, July 2005.
Journal Comparative Studies in Society and History (University of Michigan) on « Bantu/nilotic racial mythology; conflicts in Central Africa », February 2006.
Cultural Advisor “Military Exercise of German Staff Officers Course 2010”, Hamburg, July, September, December 2011
Cultural Advisor, European Union Training Mission (Mali)
Koblenz, Centre for Leadership and Civic Education, June, September 2013