Vanishing Donkeys in Northern Ghana: Global Demand, Local Struggles, and the...
Introduction For generations, donkeys have been an indispensable part of everyday life in Northern Ghana. They transport water, firewood, manure, farm inputs, and harvested crops. They plough fields,...
View ArticleWhy Should We [ALL] Care about Cash? Reflections after MIASA’s “Cash in...
When you have a money emergency, WHO or WHAT do you turn to, or trust? Do you turn to family? Your community? Savings groups? Banks? Gods11 ? Livestock? How do people pay when there’s...
View ArticleLand Tenure and “Right to the City” in Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire: What do “Forum...
Land tenure in West Africa has increasingly been shaped over the decades by various conflicts rooted in persistent social inequalities and legal pluralism (Firmin-Sellers 2000, Berry 2009). Much of the...
View ArticleConference (MIASA-PAPA): Sustainable Governance in Africa. The Usefulness of...
This conference marked the second collaboration between MIASA and the Pilot African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA), funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and led by Prof. Mamadou Diawara, MIASA’s director...
View ArticleWriting Schools: Strengthening the Academic Writing Skills of the Next...
One of MIASA’s main goals is to amplify the voices of African academics on the global academic stage. Improving the writing skills of early career researchers in Africa and developing their publication...
View ArticleConference: Regional Governance as Experience. New Perspectives on Politics...
Regionalism has long been an integral part of governance in Africa. Upon gaining independence, African states established numerous regional and sub-regional institutions to advance their interests....
View ArticleLife is an Interconnection: Women and Environmental Degradation in...
Environmental Degradation is a global phenomenon that affects all life forms especially women and children. (Gaard and Murphy,1998; Titus, 2022 and Abonyi, 2022). One major cause of environmental...
View ArticleNegotiating LPG in Urban Transportation: Taxi Drivers Stepping on the Gas in...
In Negotiating LPG in Urban Transportation, Kanazoé and Nabos explore how taxi drivers in Accra and Bobo-Dioulasso have turned domestic LPG into a lifeline amid rising fuel costs, navigating ambiguous...
View ArticleAcademic Freedom and Knowledge Production in Ghana: An Interview with Chika...
Chika Mba in conversation with Agnes Schneider-Musah MIASA Academic Coordinator Dr. Agnes Schneider-Musah interviews Dr. Chika C. Mba, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies at the...
View ArticleDecolonising Academia at MIASA and MECAM: Academic Freedom and Research...
On October 10, 2024, experts from the Merian Centres for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) gathered at the Legon Campus of the...
View ArticleIFG 11: Sustainability in West Africa’s Gold Mining Sector
Amid multiple crises, West Africa remains one of the most important (gold) mining regions in the world. Despite the manifold potential economic gains for national economies and workers, mining...
View ArticleIFG 10: Urban transformation pathways, sustainable governance, and urban...
Urban transformation, sustainable governance, and urban resilience building are critical to the sustainable development of cities in sub-Saharan Africa, as they have to navigate rapid urbanization and...
View ArticlePolitike Bishimbo: Humour, Statehood and Social Ambivalence in the 2023...
The journalists ask, “Shako, who are you going to vote for?”. Shako responds, “In the presidential election, I will vote for my father; in the national election, I will vote for my mother; and...
View ArticlePolicy Conference: Dealing with conflict, preparing for sustainable peace
Authors: Julia Grauvogel & Christof Hartmann Despite considerable efforts to foster peace, multiple interlinked security challenges persist in Africa. While decentralized forms of violence such as...
View ArticleAnton Wilhelm Amo Lecture 2024: Ancestral Knowledge for Contemporary...
Author: Toyin Fayola The 2024 MIASA Anton Wilhelm Amo Lecture explores the significant impact of ancestral knowledge and how it can guide development in contemporary African nations. By examining...
View ArticleAnnual Female Academic Careers in Africa Workshops at the University of Ghana...
Since 2018, the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA) has implemented an annual workshop series on Female Academic Careers in Africa in collaboration with the German Historical...
View ArticleKnowledge Production Conferences with PAPA (Point Sud)
MIASA collaborates with the Point Sud programme and its Pilote African Postgraduate Academy (PAPA). PAPA targets early career scholars who are based at universities in Francophone Africa. PAPA is...
View Article‘Christianity’ and ‘Feminism’ in YWCA Discourse: Perspectives from Accra and...
As a para-church women’s membership organisation, a lay ecumenical movement, and a global NGO working towards gender equality, the YWCA is a rare example of women’s collective interpretation of...
View ArticleRapports marchands au Grand Marché de Bamako – Entre socialisation et économie?
Le marché se trouve au cœur de constructions théoriques économiques. Cependant, contrairement à la conception purement économique, la loi de l’offre et de la demande, le processus marchand est complexe...
View ArticlePolicy Conferences
During MIASA’s main phase, the institute organizes three policy conferences in collaboration with GIGA and other partners. These conferences foster exchange between scholars and practitioners and...
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