Fanidh Sanogo

Doctoral Research Fellow: Future hospitals: 4IR and ethics of care in Africa

Fanidh Sanogo is a Burkinabe doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences from Glasgow Caledonian University (Mauritius campus) and a Master's in Social Anthropology from the University of Cape Town through the Mandela Rhodes Foundation. Her master's research investigated the art of Maquis in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), focusing on understanding ways of being in the maquis via facial make-up. Her doctoral research is a continuation of her master's studies, further investigating ontic (physical) and ontological (mental) constructions of being through facial make-up in a context of rapid global cultural and technological transformations.

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