l'Afrique

Allemagne

Deputy director & senior research fellow; managing editor of 'Afrika Spectrum'

GIGA--Institut für Afrika-Studien, Hamburg, Germany

Kohnert@giga-hamburg.de

GIGA-Institut für Afrika-Studien
(Institute of African Affairs)
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21
D -- 20354
Hamburg
Germany

phone: 49-40-42825-520/523
fax.: 49-40-42825-511

http://www.giga-hamburg.de/

Benin, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Togo.

Applied research on current problems of socio-economic development in
Africa south of the Sahara ; social dimension of SAP (structural
adjustment program) ; socio-cultural dimension of development ;
development planning ; rural development in West-Africa.

Specific interests:

(1) Cultures of innovation and development in transitional African
societies; the impact of cultural innovations in the informal sector of
the economy and politics on sustainable development.

(2) Comparative study of the political economy of occult belief systems
and their impact on development in African and Caribbean States

You can access some of my recent papers on the Social Science Research
Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=647124

Africa south of the Sahara ; development ; planning ; structural adjustment.