What kind of doctoral research on, in and with Africa takes place at King’s? How do King’s students critically reflect on the benefits and challenges of research in the continent? The Africa Research Group hosts an annual PhD forum to answer these questions and more with a showcase of some of the latest doctoral work on Africa from across the College.

As part of Africa Week 2022, this year the event takes place in person and features presentations by King's College London students introducing their PhD research, followed by feedback from academic staff and questions and answers with the audience. This event is free and open to all.

About the speakers

Introduction: Dr Kieran Mitton, Co-Chair Africa Research Group.

Chair: Amarachi Iheke, PhD candidate and Africa Research Group Coordinator.

Presentations:

• Amarachi Iheke - For the vanquished: Examining post-conflict reconciliation in the 1967 1970 Nigeria-Biafra conflictYawen Li, Dept of Comparative Literature: Postcolonial Literature and the Ungrievable Loss of the One Child Nation
• Katy Thornton, Dept of War Studies: Youth culture and warscapes; research through images
• Ribka Metaferia, Dept of War Studies: Ethnicity, Cities and Spatial Relations in Federal Ethiopia
• Lorraine Charbonnier, Dept of War Studies: A tale of two stories: scarcity, failure and the representation of ‘farmer-herder conflicts in West Africa and the Sahel