Cadbury Research Fellowship Scheme
The Department of African Studies and Anthropology has run an annual Cadbury research programme since 2002. Dr Morenikeji Asaaju holds this fellowship for 2022-24.
Having selected its research theme for the year, the department opens a call for visiting fellowship applications, and selects early career scholars based in African institutions.
When visiting fellows arrive in the department, they join in a series of developmental activities organised around the annual research theme and open to members of academic staff and postgraduate students. These activities include presentations of work-in-progress, reading groups, writing groups, speaker events, research methods sessions, and one-to-one meetings. Visiting fellows also have access to the University’s excellent library and research collections.
The final element of the programme is the Cadbury conference, at which fellows presented their work, alongside other speakers from around the world.
The department is grateful to the Cadbury family for its bequest which allowed us to establish this popular annual programme.
Previous Cadbury Fellows have included:
2019
- Hamissou Rhissa (Institut de Recherches en Sciences Humaines, Niger)
- Nana-Anna Abaka-Cann (Legal practitioner and University of Cape Coast, Ghana)
- Fasil Giorghis (Architect, heritage activist, CEO of FG Consult, and Professor of Architecture at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
- Simeon Koroma (Executive Director of Timap for Justice, Sierra Leone)
- Taibat Lawanson (University of Lagos, Nigeria)
- Tshenolo Masha (Head of Housing for the legal NGO ProBono.Org, South Africa)
- Sheila Minkah-Premo (Activist lawyer and legal researcher, Ghana)
- Aichatou Boubacar Mounkaila (Activist lawyer, Niger)
- Nompumelelo Seme (Legal practitioner and lecturer in law at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
2018
- Patrick Abungu (Kenya)
- Melvine Lilechi (Kenya)
- Bosha Bombe (Ethiopia)
2017
- Rosemary Obeng Hienneh (University of Ghana, Ghana)
- Roseanne Njiru (Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Kenya)
2016
- Issouf Binate (Université Alassane Ouattara, Ivory Coast)
- Aboyomi Ogunsanya (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
- Yunus Dumbe (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology , Ghana)
- Aliyu Alabi ( Bayero University, Nigeria)
- Emilie Roy ( Al Akhawayn University, Morocco )
2015
- Muritala Monsuru ( University of Ibadan, Nigeria)
- Tinashe Nyamunda (University of the Free State, South Africa)
- Ezinwanyi Adam (Babock University, Nigeria)
2014
- Anya Egwu (Covenant University, Nigeria)
- Charles Edaku (Nkumba University, Uganda)
- Oluwatoyin Omobowale (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)