Past team members | Institute for Humanities in Africa

Coordination Team

Research Administrator

Joy Buria

Communications Officer | HUMA Research & Grants Development Hub

Ayanda Manqoyi

Programme Administrator: Postgraduate Development | HUMA Research & Grants Development Hub

Samantha Richmond

Samantha Richmond

Research Coordinator

Senior Research Fellows

Sanya Osha

SRF | Focus: Humanities in Africa · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Research Fellows

Fanny Chabrol

RF | Focus: Future Hospitals & Francophone World / IRD – French National Institute for Sustainable Development + HUMA

Junior Research Fellows

Ralph Borland

JRF | Focus: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Wangui Kimari

JRF | Focus: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Dominique Somda

Dominique Somda

JRF | Focus: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Babacar Faye

PdRF | Focus: Humanities in Africa · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Yousra Hamdaoui

Yousra Hamdaoui

PdRF | Focus: Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination · Open Society Foundations + HUMA + LASPAD

Leah Davina Junck

Leah Davina Junck

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Minga Mbweck Kongo

Minga Mbweck Kongo

PdRF | Focus: Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Claire-Anne Lester

Claire-Anne Lester

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Itai Makone

PdRF | Focus: Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination · Open Society Foundations + HUMA + LASPAD

Job Mwaura

PdRF | Focus: Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination · Open Society Foundations + HUMA + LASPAD

Innocent Akilimale Ngulube

Innocent Akilimale Ngulube

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Ibrahima Niang

PdRF | Focus: Knowledge activism – strengthening African publishing and dissemination · Open Society Foundations + HUMA + LASPAD

Fernanda Pinto de Almeida

Fernanda Pinto de Almeida

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Eugene Arnaud Yombo Sembe

Eugene Arnaud Yombo Sembe

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

PdRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Hassan M. Yosimbom

Hassan M. Yosimbom

PdRF | Focus: African Intellectual Biographies

Doctoral Research Fellows

Min'enhle Ncube

Min'enhle Ncube

DRF | Focus: African Intellectual Biographies · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA and 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Vanessa Mpatlanyane

Vanessa Mpatlanyane

DRF | Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Ahmet Sait Akcay

Ahmet Sait Akcay

DRF | Focus: African Intellectual Biographies · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Angelique Thomas

Angelique Thomas

DRF | Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Sanelisiwe Ndlovu

Sanelisiwe Ndlovu

DRF | Focus: Humanities in Africa · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Sawuya Nakijoba

Sawuya Nakijoba

DRF | Focus: African Intellectual Biographies · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA and 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Phiwokazi Qoza

DRF | Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

Nokuthula Olorunju

Nokuthula Olorunju

DRF | Focus: 4IR and Ethics of Care in Africa · Carnegie Corporation of New York + HUMA

Teaching Fellows

Abonga Sithela

TF | Turning The Tide Humanities Academic Pipeline · Andrew W. Mellon Foundation + HUMA

JRF = Junior Research Fellow | PdRF = Postdoctoral Research Fellow | DRF = Doctoral Research Fellow | TF = Teaching Fellow