AFRICA MULTIPLE APPROVED PROJECTS
Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence (AM 2.0) commenced the second phase of funding in January 2026 and a number of collaborative research projects were approved within the established research sections. The projects approved consist of both short-term (maximum of two (2) years) and long- term (maximum of four (4) years). Therefore, projects initiated during the first phase in 2026 are expected to be completed no later than 2030.
Research Section Accumulation
FinTech, Debt, and Inequalities in Africa
This project investigates the links between digital finance, private and sovereign debt, and inequalities in access and outcomes, focus is on Ghana, Burkina Faso and Senegal.
Researchers: Ousseini Illy, Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo, and Abena Oduro
Transformative Arts and the City: Storying Accumulation and Inequalities Online/Offline in Nairobi and Lagos
This project explores how artistic and visual practices can make processes of dispossession, displacement, devaluation and uneven accumulation visible, focusing on Nairobi and Lagos.
Researchers: Stefan Ouma and Taibat Lawanson
Research Section Digitalities
Rivers, Reporting, and Justice: Citizen Science Environmental Monitoring and Reporting in African River Communities
The RIVER-JUST project bridges the material and conceptual levels of world-making by examining how people may digitally intervene into the environmental harms of past industrial mining; how they experience the environmental afterlives of mining and how they may theorise community intervention. Research work is carried out in Kenya and South Africa.
Researchers: Jia Hui Lee, Chika Felicitas Nnadozie, Marcellin Atemkeng, and Elizabeth Murey
Research Section Ecologies
Research Section In/Securities
Living with Violence, Navigating Insecurity: (Un)making Violent Worlds Across African Conflict Settings
Working in Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Mozambique, this project focuses on the experiences of families and communities rather than state actors or armed groups. Particular attention is paid to questions of kinship, gender and social relations, revealing how people negotiate overlapping forms of violence while maintaining social and economic life.
Researchers: Adam Sandor, Melina Kalfelis, Zakaria Soré, and Moses Yakubu