Professor Francis B Nyamnjoh FBA
African Studies and Social Anthropology
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Anthropology and Geography
- Website
- https://www.nyamnjoh.com/
Summary
Francis Nyamnjoh is a scholar of African Studies and Social Anthropology, specialising in media and communication, mobility, identity, citizenship and the politics of belonging, through the lens of incompleteness and conviviality.
Current post
University of Cape Town Professor of Social Anthropology
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Linda Newson FBA
Historical geography; demographic and cultural change in colonial Latin America and the Philippines; Portuguese slave trade to Spanish America; history of medicine in early colonial Spanish America
Professor Heonik Kwon FBA
The postcolonial Cold War; civil war memories in Vietnam and in Korea; death rituals and the politics of kinship; early fieldwork in indigenous Siberia; the heritage of internationalism in anthropology
