PhD Candidates

Kassim Assouma is a PhD candidate and a Junior Researcher in the NWO-funded project, “Increasing Political Leverage of Informal and Formal Workers’ Organisations for Inclusive Development: The cases of Ghana and Benin”.

Inge Butter is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in the Arabic language and Arab culture.

Peter Justin (born in Yei – Sudan), is a PhD candidate in the ‘Grounding Land Governance’ Programme.

Agnieszka Kazimierczuk is working in the framework of the NWO-funded project Dutch Multinational Businesses, Dutch Government and the Promotion of Productive Employment in Sub-Sahara Africa.

Serena Adhiambo Adede Nasongo is a Ph.D. candidate in the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) studies in University of Amsterdam.

Rosine Tchatchoua Djomo is a PhD student under the research project: Land governance reform in Central Africa.

Martin van Vliet (1979) studied Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at the University of Leiden. He wrote a master thesis on the implementation of Mali's decentralization process from a cultural perspective.

Merel van ‘t Wout recently started as a PhD candidate in the project Society and Change in Northern Ghana: Dagomba, Gonja, and the Regional Perspective on Ghanaian History led by dr. M.R. Doortmont.