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Mailing Address African Studies Centre Leiden University PO Box 9555 2300 RB Leiden The Netherlands

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Research Interests Educational background: * Ph.D. Degree. 14 February 1996: Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. Ph.D. Thesis: 'Kikuyu gender norms and narratives'. Supervisor: Prof. Dr. W.J.J. Schipper de Leeuw. * M.A. in Afrikanistiek (African Studies). 31 August 1992. Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. * M.A. in History. 31 August 1989. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Research interests: She currently is carrying out research into communication technologies and social relations in Angola. She is engaged in studying the historical relations between literacy/orality, elite-formation and the introduction of the mobile phone in Northern Angola, and coordinating a case-study on returnees, 'development' and new ICT in south-east Angola. These case-studies form part of a larger programme, entitled 'Mobile Africa Revisited, aimed at studying the relations between mobile telephony and social hierarchies.

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Publications * "A canção poltica, as religiões e o conceito de 'cultura popular'" in Journal: Kulonga, 2010. In cooperation with Anne-Lotte Hoek Bricks, Mortar and Capacity Building: A Socio-Cultural History of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation. Leiden: Brill, Afrika-Studiecentrum Series; vol. 18, 2010. "Landscape and Nostalgia: Angolan refugees in Namibia remembering home and forced removals" In: M. Bollig ; O. Bubenzer (eds.) African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary approaches. Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 275-296, 2008. "Writing, oral traditions and the construction of of ethnic identities" In: W. Mhlig ; F. Seidel ; M. Seifert (eds.) Language Contact, Language Change and History Based on Language Source in Africa. Proceedings of the International Workshop at Kningswinter, March 28-30, 2007, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2008. "Dreams and agency during Angola's war of independence" In: M.E. Bruijn ; R.A. van Dijk ; J.B. Gewald (eds.) Strength beyond structure: social and historical trajectories of agency in Africa. Leiden: Brill, pp. 62-82, 2007. "Mobility, immobility, marginality. Angolan civilians in wartime (1961-2002)" In: J. Laband (ed.) Daily lives of civilians in wartime Africa. From slavery days to the diamond wars. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2006. "Refugees on routes. Congo/Zaire and the war in Northern Angola (1961-1974)" In: Canadian journal, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 205-234, 2006. "Routes and the war for independence in northern Angola (1961-74)" In: Canadian journal of African studies, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 205-234, 2006. A war for people : civilians, mobility, and legitimacy in South-East Angola during the MPLA's war for independence. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, History, cultural traditions and innovations in Southern Africa 23, 2005. "Language, names, and war: the case of Angola" In: African studies review, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 143-163, 2004. "War and identity in Angola : two case-studies" ' In: Lusotopie, pp. 195-221, 2003. Editor. Singing in the bush. MPLA songs during the war for independence in south-east Angola (1966-1975). (Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Cologne 2001). Co-editor, with Axel Fleisch. Grandmother's Footsteps. Oral tradition and south-east Angolan narratives on the colonial encounter. (Rüdiger Köppe Verlag: Cologne 1999). Kikuyu gender norms and narratives. (CNWS publications: Leiden, 1996).

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