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Ben joins us after completing his recent MA African Studies at SOAS, University of London. There, he wrote his dissertation about language attitudes in Lubumbashi, DRC, and how Swahili and French interact with one another in daily life. He also brings with him experience of working on the continent in Tanzania, and Ghana. Ben is interested in how cultural studies can help us break outdated stereotypes and shine light on lesser known issues that our world faces. Raising the voices of socio-economically marginalised individuals is of particular interest to him, especially through gender justice and youth empowerment and engagement action. He has past experience in group facilitation, content creation, communications, policy development, qualitative research and fundraising.

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2024

"A Year of Farming in Gojjam, Ethiopia" is the working title of a painting I researched, held in the Cambridge Centre of African Studies Archive. The published annotated article is available in the Anglo-Ethiopian Society's Winter 2023 Newsfile pamphlet at the link above, and in physical form in the Cambridge African Studies Library Archive (Winter 2023 - classmark (630) 061.2 BOX). Read more about the research process on the Library Blog.

2023

''A Metamorphosed Language': Tracing Language Attitudes Towards Lubumbashi Swahili and French in the DRC.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 21. pp. 30-45.

2020

Challenging gender norms, one garlic clove at a time: Mary James’s Journey

Senior Library Assistant, African Studies
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