Museum Cultures in the Copperbelt: The Yabili Family Museum in Lubumbashi – Sarah Van Beurden
Sarah Van Beurden is an Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and a visiting scholar in the Department of African Studies at […]
Blog posts
Historicising Cross-Border Copperbelt Relations through Football, 1900-1960s – Hikabwa Chipande
Hikabwa Chipande is a Lecturer & Researcher in Sports at the University of Zambia School of Education. Missionaries, industrialists and colonialists introduced team sports such […]
Beyond the Male Gaze: Images of Katangese Women – Rachel Taylor
Rachel Taylor is Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. When I started work on the Comparing the […]
Using oral history in the research of mining communities – Iva Peša
Iva Peša is Research Associate in Environmental History on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. Many researchers have attempted to record processes of social change among […]
Solwezi will be the “new copperbelt”: dashed expectations, collective grievances, and ethnic tensions in North-Western Zambia – Robby Kapesa
Robby Kapesa is a PhD student at the Copperbelt University under the Dag Hammarskjöld Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in Zambia. Following the privatization […]
Oldies but Goodies: The Phenomenon of Artistic Revival in the Copperbelt – Enid Guene
Enid Guene is Research Associate in Cultural History on the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. Contemporary African art is on the rise, or at least, that […]
South-south cooperation in the twenty-first century Copperbelt: Egyptian investment in Zambia’s copper value chain – Mostafa Abdelaal
Mostafa Abdelaal is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of African Research and Studies at Cairo University. For […]
Frustration in the Archives: Working in Kongolo, Tanganyika Province – Reuben Loffman
Reuben Loffman’s forthcoming book, Church and State in the Belgian Congo, 1909-1962, based in part on his PhD fieldwork, will be published in the Cambridge […]
The Knowledge of Hearts and Minds: Measuring Love (and Intelligence) in Late Colonial Congo – Amandine Lauro
Amandine Lauro is a Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Université libre de Bruxelles. “Love, what is it?” […]
Researching the private sector: Participant Observation in a multinational logistics company in the Copperbelts – Hélène Blaszkiewicz
Hélène Blaszkiewicz is currently completing her PhD at the Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3. Extractive capitalism in Africa is characterised by the active participation of diverse […]