Founding members

	Aleksandra Cimpric (NYRA national coordinator, France) PhD student in anthropology, University of Provence, France and member of CEMAf-Aix, cimpric.agmail.com Research interests: anthropology of religion and politic, imaginaries of religion and violence, witchcraft, "Talimbi" Country of research: the Central African Republic
	Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde (NYRA national coordinator, Denmark) PhD-student,Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)and Roskilde University, Denmark, smrdiis.dk. Research interests: conflict and cooperation in the local goverance of water Country of research: Mali
	Coumba Ndoffène Diouf (NYRA national coordinator, Senegal) PhD student in anthropology and sociology, EHESS Marseille, France and Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, ndoffene81yahoo.fr. Research interests: Natural Resource Management, "territorialization", Autochtony, Décentralization Country of research:Senegal, West Africa
	Elise Guillermet (NYRA co-coordinator website and communication) PhD student in anthropology, IRD, ASSA UR002 and Université Lyon II, France, elise.guillermetlaposte.net. Research interests: construction of childhood, orphan, kinship and parenthood, development aid, health, HIV/Aids, muslim society Country of research: Niger
	Eric Komlavi Hahonou, Doctor of anthropology, post doctoral researcher at the University of Roskilde, Denmark and researcher at LASDEL Parakou, Benin, komlaviruc.dk Research interests: local-level politics, political cultures, decentralisation processes, development aid Country of research:Mali, Niger and Benin
	Oumarou Hamani (NYRA co-coordinator communication and national coordinator, Niger) PhD student in social anthropology, EHESS Marseille, France and researcher at LASDEL, Niamey, Niger, el_hamaniyahoo.fr. Research interests: Country of research:
	Judith Herman, PhD student in anthropology, University of Provence (CEMAf-Aix/Paris)and IRD, France, yodit_heryahoo.fr. Research interests: Country of research:
	Azizou Chabi Imorou (NYRA co-coordinator 'tandem' and national coordinator, Benin) PhD student in anthropology, University of Mainz, Germany and researcher at LASDEL, Parakou, Benin, ciazizouyahoo.fr. Research interests:political anthropology, teacher unions, education bureaucracy Country of research: Benin
	Gabriella Körling (NYRA co-coordinator website and communication and national coordinator, Sweden) PhD student in anthropology, University of Uppsala, Sweden, gabriella.korlinggmail.com. Research interests: anthropology of the state, public services (health and education), citizenship, medical anthroplogy Country of research: Niger
	Tomas Machalik , PhD student in anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, machalikksa.zcu.cz. Research interests: political anthropology, "Namibian Czechs"- problem of identity construction, "Herero Genocide" - a memento in German history Country of research:South Africa
	Maïté Maskens (NYRA national coordinator, Belgium) PhD student in anthropology and researcher at CIERL (Centre d'Etudes des Religions et de la Laïcité), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, mmaskensulb.ac.be Research interests: antropology of religion, pentacostalism, biographies of conversion, immigration, pentacostalists from sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America in Brussels Country of research: Belgium, Congo
	Kateřina Mildnerová, PhD student in anthropology, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, kackis.mseznam.cz. Research interests: Anthropology of religion, Metamorphoses of traditional religion vodun in Benin, New religious movements, Witchcraft Material culture, Country of research:West Africa (Benin, Togo, Nigeria)
	Abdoulaye Mohamadou, Doctor of social anthropology, Lecturer at the Université Adbou Moumouni and director of LASDEL, Niamey, Niger, azawaghyahoo.fr. Research interests: Country of research:
	Sita Zougouri (NYRA co-coordinator 'tandem' and national coordinator, Burkina Faso) PhD-student in anthropology, University of Uppsala, Sweden, sita_zougouriyahoo.fr. Research interests: migration and mobility, land tenure questions, monetary land transactions. local Powers, chieftaincy and “fetishes” (god-objects); forest policies, rural enterprises - fuel wood commoditization, management of natural resources (gender approach), rural development Country of research: Burkina Faso

	Olumide Abimbola, PhD student in anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany Research interests: informal transborder trade, regional integration, and qualitative network analysis Country of research: Benin and Nigeria http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/abimbola
	Aghali Abdoulkader , PHD Candidate, EHESS, Marseille, France Researcher at the LASDEL, Niamey, Niger Research interests : touareg rebellion Country of research : Mali, Niger
	Franck Kadjogbé Adjobo , MA in Geography, DESS in Populations and urban dynamics, University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin Research interests : health, water management in urban context Country of research : Benin
	Remy Jonas Ahoyo , Researcher at the IITA, Benin Research interests : agricol organisation, socioeconomy, productors' perception of technologies Country of research : Benin
	Eugénie d'Alessandro, Master in Anthropologie, EHESS Marseille, PHD Student in Medecine, University of Marseille Research interests : history of medical intervention on epidemics (Trypanosomiase, Leishmaniose, Cholera, Meningitis, Malaria, Hiv/aids) in south countries, during the second part of XXth century. Bird flu in Niger, Egypt and France Countries of research: Niger, Egypt, France
	Alhassan Sulemana Anamzoya, PhD student in sociology, Université of Ghana, Legon Accra Research interests: femal migration in Africa, judicial processes in resolving chieftaincy dispuites in Nothern Ghana, Law in Action, state institutions and state actors, anthropology of law Country of research: Ghana
	Jonas Armi, PhD student in history, Université Adam Barka d'Abéché, Tchad Research interests: rural land questions, inter-ethnic relations, conflicts, migration, customary law, decentralisation, natural resources, governance Country of research: Tchad
	Anne Attané, PhD in anthropology, post doc ANRS/IRD, France Research interests: medical anthropology, religion (religious plurality, rituals and material culture), widowhood, the sociology of changing family relations, relations of gender, age and generation, environmental practices and representations and alternative neo rual lifestyles (France), use of photography in the social sciences Country of research: Burkina Faso and France
	Nicolas Akotchaye, DESS in Populations and urban dynamics, Researcher in CEFORP, University of Abomey Calavi Research interests : medical pluralism, malaria of children and pregnant women, HIV/aids country of research: Benin
	Awa Ba, PHD student, University of Uppsala Research interests: Women, migration, Islam, Media, Transnationalism Pays de recherche: Senegal, USA
	Axel Ochosias Badou, Student in sociology and teacher in art, Porto Novo, Benin Research interests: socio-anthropology of art and culture Pays de recherche: Benin
	Miarom Beosso, MA in Sociology Research interests: education, environment and health Pays de recherche: Tchad
	Jesper Bjarnesen, PhD student in cultural anthropology, University of Uppsala Research interests: youth, mobility, globalisation, Islam, Identity, urban anthropology, intergenerational relations, family, adulthood Country of research: West Africa, Ivory Coast
	Julien Bondaz, PhD student in anthropology, University of Lyon II, France Research interests: museums, zoological gardens Country of research: Mali, Niger, Burkina-Faso
	Serge-Patrick Boueyi, Master in Sociology, research collaborator at the IITA, Benin Research interests: rural sociology, socioeconomy Countries of research: Benin
	Claudio Cadei, Master in Anthropology, University of Bolognia, Italia Research interests: rhetoric of decentralization, local politic, citizenship Countries of research: Uganda, Burkina Faso
	Bakary Camara, PhD student in law and lecturer, Université Gaston Berger, Senegal and Université de Bamako, Mali Research interests: Law and political science, legal anthropology, conflicts over the management of natural resources and land, international and local conflicts, local communities, the elections in Mali, conflict and migration (mobility) in Africa, international relations Country of research: Tchad
	Evariste Fousseni Camara, MA in social anthropology Research interests: migration and conflict, customary conflict resolution, public spaces and the media, the impact of commercials Country of research: Mali
	Mathieu Hermann Coulibaly, MA in Sociology and Anthropology Research interests: public health Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Tine Van Criekinge , PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE, London, UK Research interests: EU aid, trade, and political relations with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) group of states, EU foreign policy, EU development cooperation, European international identity Country of research: Ghana, Senegal, Botswana, Namibia
	Liza Debevec, PhD in social anthropology, researcher at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies, the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia Research interests: anthropology of food, Islam, 'popular' piety, gender, youth, identity Country of research: Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso, Ouagadougou)
	Diana van Dijk, PhD student, the Centre for International Development Issues Nijmegen (CIDIN), Radboud University Nijmegen Research interests: child-headed households; children (affected by AIDS), youth, social development, reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS Country of research: South Africa
	Pulcherie Desiree Adjoua Doffou, DEA in sociology Research interests: paranormal and religious pratices in the context of business Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Elieth Eyebiyi, DEA in Sociology and Anthropology Research interests: local organisation and development, civil society, women empowerment, actors' agency Country of research: Benin
	Sarah Fichtner, PHD student in Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg, University of Mainz, Germany Research interests: Anthropology of organizations (especially non-governmental organisations), business anthropology, anthropology of development, education, statehood, decentralisation, transnational norm transfer Country of research: Benin
	Annett Fleischer , PhD student in anthropology, Max Planck Institute, Germany Research interests: transnational and internal migration, family, kinship, marriage, reproduction, and legality Country of research: West and Central Africa, mainly Mali and Cameroon
	Madalina Florescu, PhD student in anthropology, SOAS, London, UK Research interests: children , witchcraft, "impairment", religion Country of research: Angola
	Idriss Abdelkerim Foudoussia , Master in human and economical Geography, Research interests: Country of research: Tchad
	Mike Gould , PHD Student in History, SOAS, London, UK Research interests: The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 Country of research: Nigeria
	Sascha Griffiths , PhD student linguistics in University of Kent in Canterbury, UK Research interests: anthropology and linguistic, cognitive anthropology, evolutionary psychology, phonetics and computational linguistic, the documentation of a Mamiloid language Country of research: Cameroun
	Alidou Maboudou Guirguissou , Master Research interests: Rural Sociology, adoption and diffusion of post-crop technologies, impact of agricultural technologies, actors’ networks country of research: Benin
	Benjamin Hirschfeld, Master in Anthropology at Tübingen University, southern Germany Research interests: migration into europe, networks and power-/economic-relationships, history Country of research: southern european, northern african countries, Uganda and eastern African countries
	Hassane Moussa Ibrahima , Master of human Geography, University Abdou Moumouni, Niamey, Niger Research interests: Rural sociology, management of rural spaces, land conflicts Country of Research: Niger
	Abdoul Ramane Chabi Imorou, BA Research interests: children in difficulties, talibes, health Country of research: Benin
	Clarisse Tama Imorou , PHD student in socioanthropology, University of Francfort, Germany Research interests: teachers in primary school, public services, sociology of profession, sociology of education, political anthropology Country of research: Benin
	Morten Jerven , Phd candidate in African Economic History, LSE, London, UK Research interests: Economic growth and performance in African economies, long and short term changes in economic performance and institutions, National accounting practices in african economies Country of research: Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia
	Augustin Kabore, PhD student, IRD and Université d'Abomey Calavi, Benin Research interests: the dynamics of traditional cultural practices and their impact on conservation and biological diversity Country of research: Burkina Faso
	Arsène Kadjo, PhD student Research interests: traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution Country of research: the Ivory Coast
	Djibril Keita , PHD Studen in sociology, University of Rennes 2 Haute-Bretagne, France Laboratoire d'anthropologie et sociologie (LAS) Research interests: African initiative, otherness, system of development, local communities, associations, NGOs, social change Country of research: France, West Africa
	Alexis Koffi , DEA sociology of development, Université de Bouaké, Ivory Coast Research interests: targeting policies in poverty reduction programs Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Nicolas Kouassi Kouadio , DEA in Sociology Research interests: Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Reuben Alexander Loffman , PHD student, Keele University, UK Research interests: violence, gender, generation, religion Country of research: IRDC, Central Africa
	Zethu Matebeni , PHD student, WISER Wits University, South Africa Research interests : same-sex sexuality in Johannesburg Country of research: South Africa
	Frederique Millot , PHD student in Ethnology and Anthropology Research interests : education, scholarship, childhood, Tuareg and nomad societies, identity process, globalization, development, decentralisation, territories Country of research:
	A. Aziz Mossi , DEA in anthropology, Université d'Abomey Calavi, Benin Research interests: cultural anthropology (scarification among the Dendi), the local state and alphabetization services Country of research: Benin
	Joel Ipara Motema, DEA in anthropology, the University of Kinshasa and the Institute of the National Museum of Congo Research interests: the integration of traditional medicine in the public health system in Congo(DRC), objects of therapeutic knowledge- art, power and healing (yaka, suku and pende), the prise en charge of AIDS patients by evangelic churches in Kinshasa Country of research: the Democratic Republic of Congo
	Emmanuel Kasongo Mungongo, PhD student, Université de Kinshasa, Congo Research interests: decentralization and local finance, decentralization and urban governance Country of research: Democratic Republic of Congo
	Jean-Claude Yaminaté Nabouri, PhD student, University of Lomé, Togo Research interests: science of education Country of research: Togo
	El Hadji Mamadou Ndiaye, PhD student in geography, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal and ENDA GRAF Research interests: urban mobility and the management of public transport/bus stations (gares routières) in Dakar Country of research: Senegal
	Tob-ro N’Dilbe , PHD student in Gegraphy and lecturer at Ngaoundéré University, Cameroun, and University Adam Barka d'Abéché, Tchad Research interests: Urban Geography, Urban Management, urban production, urbanisation of N'Djaména (Tchad) Country of research: Tchad
	Etanislas Ngodi , PhD student and coordinator of Réseau Migration et développement en Afrique Centrale Research interests: history, international relations and political science Country of research: Central Africa, Congo
	Joseph Indeka Nkoso, PhD student in anthropology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Research interests: chieftancy, the political (historical) anthropology of 'customary powers' and their relations to colonial and post colonial structures of authority Country of research: the Democratic Republic of Congo
	Georgine Gakuru Ntirumenyerwa, PhD student Research interests: private law, inheritance, the juridical situation of widows in congolese law Country of research: the Democratic Republic of Congo
	Louise Nygaard Rasmussen , PhD student in anthropology, Centre of African Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Research interests: Responses to HIV/AIDS (prevention and treatment & care), Christianity in East Africa, gender, masculinities, urban slum areas, the governmentality of international development, postcolonial perspectives on gender & sex constructions Country of research: Uganda, Kenya
	Ashley Ouvrier , PHD student in Anthropology of health, University Paul Cézanne Aix Marseille III, CreCSS/IRD Research interests: Anthropology of medecine, interaction between medical actors and patients in medical oncology in France, HIV/aids and breastfeeding in South of India, Anthropology of clinical tests in West Africa Country of Research: Senegal
	Julia Pfaff , PhD candidate and research assistant at the Chair of Social Geography, at the University of Bayreuth, Germany Research interests: transnationalism/translocality, mobility, migration, "postcolonialism", ethnography, object geographies, trading practices, youth identities, Actor-Network-Theory Country of research: Eastern Africa, "Swahili-corridor", Africa-Arabia and Indian Ocean
	Tamás Régi , PhD Student, Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University Research interests: Modernity in Africa, Visual Anthropology, photography and films, economic anthropology Country of research: East Africa
	Sophie Roberts , PhD Candidate, War Studies Department King's College, London, UK Research interests: human rights abuses, foreign policy responses, dynamics of internal conflict Country of research: Zimbabwe
	Amani Kouassi Roger, DEA in sociology of development, Université de Bouaké, Ivory Coast Research interests: impact de la culture de l'anacarde sur les dynamiques socio-foncières Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Chérif Sadia, PHD Student in sociology, University of Bouaké, Ivory Coast Research interests: economical sociology, negotiation, liberalisation, social economy, cooperative, rural development country of research: Ivory Coast
	Agnès Badou Savi , DEA in sociology, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal Research interests: politics, electoral strategies and health, maternal mortality Country of research: Benin
	Ayouba Sayo , Master in Socio-anthropology Research interests: migration, alphabetisation, communal administration Country of research: Benin
	Ibra Sene, PhD student in history, Michigan State University, USA Research interests:Crime, punishment and colonization in Senegal. Islam, youth organizations in Senegal, Senegalese international migration, higher education, and information technologies Country of research: Senegal www.msu.edu/~seneibra/ibra
	Almamy SYLLA , PhD student in anthropology, in Point sud, Bamako, Mali Research interests: Institutions, natural ressources, conflicts/ migrations, competitions, power, conflicts, governance of security, prevention of conflicts in a war context Country of research: Mali
	Marcelline SORO, PHD student in Anthropology, Institut d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie, University Cocody-Abidjan, Ivory coast, associated to UR095, IRD Research interets: land Country of research: Ivory Coast
	Almamy SYLLA , PHD student in Anthropology, Point sud, Bamako, Mali Research interests: Institutions, natural resources, conflicts/ migrations, competitions, power, management of security and mass (media, religion and public spaces) Country of research: Mali
	Saï Sotima Tchatipo , DEA in sociology Research interests: anthropology of development, legal anthropology Country of research: Benin
	Bertaud Tchinda , PHD student in Geography Research interests: land, colonial domain, rural mobility, agricultural colonisation, environment impacts Country of research: Cameroun
	Eudoxie Ilé Amilkar Tella , Master in Population et Health, Benin Research interests: urbanisation ; demography and health; environment, health and development Country of research: Burkina Faso
	Jerry TOP Onifade, Nigeria Research interests: conflicts resolution, development, millennium development goals Country of research: Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Kenya and South Africa
	Ephrem Tesema, PhD student in anthropology, University of Basel, Switzerland Research interests: the political economy of khat ( Khat Edulis); conflict in the economy, culture of consumption, political transformation, interaction of the local and global force, appropriation and vitality of the local Country of research: Ethiopia
	Yawo Isaac Gigonou Videha, PhD student in contemporary history Research interests: socio-economic dynamics of port cities, Lomé, Cotonou and Accra-Téma (1950-2000) Country of research: Togo, Ghana and Benin
	Didie Armand Zadou, PhD student in anthropology, in l'Institut des Sciences Anthropologiques de Développement ( ISAD ), University of Abidjan-Cocody Research interests: Political ecology in Ivory Coast : genesis, evolution and perspectives. Environnement, durable management of natural ressources. Country of research: Ivory Coast