Georges Macaire Eyenga

Georges Macaire Eyenga is a Visiting Research Fellow at HUMA and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Dschang (Cameroon). He is also a Research Fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Yaoundé II (2015) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Paris Nanterre (2019). Since 2025, Georges has led the Research Unit for Political, Strategic, and Social Analysis (URPOSSOC) -- the university’s main political science laboratory. His research explores African technoscapes, focusing on surveillance technologies, biometrics, medical drones, and digital platforms. Georges has received several prestigious fellowships, including the Erasmus Mundus Fellowship (2015), the Gerda Henkel Foundation Fellowship (2020), the IUSSP Population, Ethics, and Human Rights Fellowship (2023), and the Standard Bank Chair Fellowship (2024). He is also a member of the editorial board of Cahiers d'Études Africaines, published by the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in France.