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Professor听Ahmadou Sehou听is Professor of听Political and Social History at the University of Maroua (Cameroon). His work focuses on the history of slavery, the slave trade and听memories of the slave trade in the African, Atlantic and Islamic contexts. He was Researcher-Resident at the Institute of Advanced Studies of Nantes (IEA) promotion 2020-2021. He also participates in the European project "Slavery in Africa: a dialogue between Europe and Africa" (Slafnet-Rise H2017-2023). He is an associate member of the Centre de Recherches en Histoire Internationale et Atlantique (CRHIA, Nantes University and University of La Rochelle) and of the International Association les Anneaux de la M茅moire with which he has conducted several studies on sites of memory and museums. He is also the founder and coordinator of the Centre d'Etudes Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique (CERPETA-Cameroon). He has just been appointed President of the African Slavery Researchers Network, created in Dakar on the 9th of November 2022.
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Dr听Samson Mengolo Mbel听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
Dr听Samson Mengolo Mbel is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of History and African Civilisations at the University of Buea (South West Cameroon). His research focuses on the archaeology of historical periods, the processes of patrimonialisation, and representations and uses of the history听of the slave trade and slavery in Southern Cameroon. He is the author of a recent article on the La'a Pou memorial in Bangou, a post-slavery society in West Cameroon, published in NaKaN, A journal of Cultural Studies, Issue 1, 2022. He is a member of the Centre d'脡tudes et de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique and has participated in the Slafnet and Slamranet programmes. He is currently team leader of the Afrab project for the West, South-West and North-West regions of Cameroon.
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Nkwiyir Marina Mungfub听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
Nkwiyir Marina Mungfub is a Postgraduate student at the Department of History, University of Buea, Cameroon. She is听currently writing a PhD thesis on: 'Cultural Memory and Slavery in the Post Slavery Societies of the Grassfields of Cameroon'. In 2022, she was a panelist at an international conference organised by SLAFCO entitled 'Slavery in Africa: Knowledge and Openings'听in Yaound茅, Cameroon. Her presentation focused听on historically migrant workers in the coastal region of Cameroon: slave descendants between ideological hegemony and political powerlessness. Also听in 2022, as a member of the AFRAB Cameroon team, she participated at the conference on听'La recherche sur les esclavages dans le monde : un 茅tat des lieux'听jointly organised by l鈥橝gence Universitaire de la Francophonie and la Fondation pour la M茅moire de l鈥橢sclavage, in Dakar -S茅n茅gal.听Within the AFRAB Project, she is interested in identifying abolitionists in Cameroon where her work includes:听conducting interviews, consulting archival documents and museum听objects in the North West, South West and West regions.
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Dr听Joseph Jules Sinang听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听 听
Dr听Joseph Jules Sinang is a lecturer in the History Department of the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Humanities at the University of Yaound茅 1 in Cameroon and a researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et des Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et les Traites en Afrique (CERPETA). His work focuses on environmental history and issues of subjugation in contemporary societies in relation to otherness.听Since 2017, he has participated in numerous research networks on slavery such as the European programme "Slavery in Africa (SLAFNET): A Dialogue between Europe and Africa" (H2020, Rise programme) devoted to the study of the history and legacy of slave trade and slavery, the projects Slavery, Memory and Race in Colonial and Postcolonial world (SLAMARANET) which questions the diversity of forms of slavery in relation to questions of race and citizenship and African Abolitionism: The Rise and Transformations of Anti-Slavery in Africa听 (AFRAB) where he is interested in the attitude of local chiefs to the Western abolition of the slave trade. In October 2023, he will join the Institut d'Etudes Avanc茅es (IEA) in Nantes as a resident for a period of nine months, where he will develop his research project entitled, "Slavery in the forest-dwelling societies of Central Africa: Definitions, issues and legacies.听
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Janvier Guidang Tchinabi
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Janvier GUIDANG TCHINABI is a student researcher in history at the University of Maroua in Cameroon. He also holds a Diploma as a Secondary School Teacher Second Grade (DIPES II). His research focuses on the history of slavery in the Lake Chad region, from its origins to the present day. He is a member of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires sur l'Esclavage et la Traite en Afrique (CERPETA) and a project activity assistant for the AFRAB Project Cameroon Team.
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