African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme 2023

• Alemu Asfaw Nigusie, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, Research project:
  Negotiated Securitization? North-South Cooperation and the dynamics of state response towards refugees in Ethiopia
• Temesgen Beyan, Research and Documentation Center, Eritrea. Research project:
  Between Alliance and Competition: Regional and non-Regional Actors in the Conflicts in the Horn of Africa
• Jackson Tamunosaki Jack, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria. Research project:
  Adaptive Capacity to Environmental Degradation in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
• Joyce De-Graft Acquah, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Research project:
  Memory, Repatriation, and Re-emigration: The Voices of Former Liberian Refugees in Ghana
  
• Arnaud Yombo Sembe, African Insitute for development Policy, Malawi. Research project:
  Ethnographing two models of economic hybridization of the developmental state in Africa. The case of sports infrastructures in Cameroon and Cote d'Ivoire
  
• Jacinta Chiamaka Nwaka, University of Benin, Nigeria. Research project:
  Beyond the Theory of Colonial Exclusion: The Decline of Women’s Power in Peace Processes in Post-Colonial South-eastern Nigeria
  
• Ken Junior Lipenga, University of Malawi. Research project:
  Writing Disability in Africa: Towards a Global South Epistemology
• Helen Akolgo-Azupogo, University for Development Studies, Ghana. Research project:
  Land rights, access and livelihood security in Northern Ghana: Engendering inclusivity and non-marginalization

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2023

• Anja Onali, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project:
  Ideals and expectations for policy relevant development research
  
• Felix Dade, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project:
  Hybrid but one-sided? Women and hybrid peace orders in Dagbon, Northern Ghana
  
• Victor Mollel, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project:
  Re-articulating citizenship in times of uncertainty: Hybridity in Covid-19 responses in sub-Saharan Africa
  
• Floris van Doorn, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project:
  The EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa as ‘Frontier Governmentality’: A Genealogy of the Spatial Remaking of Europe’s African Frontiers
  
• Fisseha Tefera, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research project:
  Forgetting a Famine: Accountability to and Remembrance of Famines in Postcolonial Africa
  
• Jutta Martens, Tampere University, Finland. Research project:
  Conflicting Norms in Peace Processes - Faith-based Leaders Perspectives and Roles in Achieving Lasting Peace
  

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme 2022

• Abayineh Woldeamanuel, Jimma University, Ethiopia. Research project:
  New options to manage climate risks: index-based livestock insurance in Arid and semi-Arid part of Ethiopia
  
• Peace Musiimenta, Makerere University, Uganda. Research project: Masculinity revisited: change, continuities and fractures in Western Uganda
• Gordon Omenya, Kenyatta University, Kenya. Research project:
  Memories, heritage and claim making: A history of migrant Makonde community in Kenya
• Marion Ouma, University of South Africa. Research project: Power, politics and democracy: Social protection policymaking in Kenya
• Sidy Lamine Bagayoko, University of Bamako, Mali. Research project:
  Process of nationalising community schools in Mali
• Mohammed El-Fengour, University of Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. Research project: The impacts of natural hazards in northern Morocco
  

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2022

• Rose Ingutia, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: Water scarcity, water productivity, climate change and the potential of rain-fed agriculture for Food security: women farmers’ experience in rural Kenya
• Joy Kibarabara, Stockholm University, Sweden. Research project:
  The Discourse and Practice of Constructive Journalism
• Karembe Ahimbisibwe, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project: Constrained citizenship in Uganda: Learning and change in civil society spaces
• Karina Horsti, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project: Survivor Citizenship and the Afterlife of a Disaster
• Manuela Shampemba, Tampere University, Finland. Research project: The Impact of Social Norms in Sexual and Gender-based Violence in Eastern DRC
• Japheth Koros, Tampere University, Finland. Research project: Accelerating water and sanitation access in Kenya: recommendations for loval-level participation

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2021

• Nicholás Vignoli, Dalarna University, Sweden. Research project:
  Energy Transition and Universal Access to Energy in Mozambique. Study case: Community Centre for Renewable Energy in Beira, Mozambique
• Christopher Chagnon, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: Playing favourites: Investigating Chinese investment policy in Africa
• Eva Nilsson, Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Research project: Corporate responsibility and governance in African states. A study of a large foreign investment in Tanzania
• Marja Tiilikainen, Migration Institute of Finland. Research project:
  Islam and security revisited: Transnational Somali families in Finland, Canada and Somalia
  

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme 2021

No scholarship holder due to Covid-19.

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme 2020

• Anusa Daimon, University of the Free State, South Africa. Research project: ‘Alien’ migrants in hostile spaces: Malawians and the politics of othering in Zimbabwe, c. 1920s-2013
• Christian L. Nguena, University of Dschang, Cameroon. Research project: Financial innovation and pro poor & inclusive growth in developing countries
• Grace Idahosa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Research project: Mid-level managers agency for transformation in South African higher education
  
• Khadijat B. Amolegbe, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Research project: Economic shocks, household debt, and women’s autonomy

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2020

• Emma Sundkvist, Lund University, Sweden. Research project: Human rights as law, language and space: feminist activism in contemporary Egypt 
  
• Jerkko Holmi, University of Turku, Finland. Research project: Motivations in Finnish cooperation in Southern Africa 1985-1995
  

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme 2019

• Opeyemi Akinyemi, Covenant University, Nigeria. Research project: Energy sustainability, green growth and the sustainable development agenda in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Nicholas Kilimani, Makerere University, Uganda. Research project: Agro-climatic shocks, coping mechanisms and income diversification: Implications for household welfare in Uganda
• Ivor Miller, University of Calabar, Nigeria. Research project: The symbolic mask: Indigenous traditions of governance in the Cross River Region and its Atlantic diaspora
• Valence Silayo, Stella Maris University, Tanzania. Research project: Water from the mountain of God and dynamics of the Kilimanjaro furrow system in Tanzania
• Ronald Ndesanjo, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Research project: Enhancing Climate Resilience in Tanzania
• Abosede Babatunde, University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Research project: Oil conflict and ethnic politics in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
• Lauren Paremoer, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Research project: The importance of social citizenship in realizing health for all

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2019

• Nicolai Baumert, Lund University, Sweden. Research project: ‘Population dynamics in Western and Central Africa – Demographic transitions in British Nigeria and German Cameroon since 1889’.
• Marc Dunnink, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Research project: ‘Africa’s sleeping giant; African issues in national elections. Political entrepreneurship in South Africa’s national elections’.
• Saana Hansen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: ‘Seeking decent belonging and formal recognition: Exploring the dynamics of returnee emplacement in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’.
• Jenny Lorentzen, Lund University, Sweden. Research project: ‘Norm-translation in war-to-peace transitions: Women, peace and security in Mali’.
• Ilona Steiler, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: ‘Setting work to rights: The re-construction of the Tanzanian popular economy’.

African Guest Researchers' Scholarship Programme

• Sandra Manuel, Univerity Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique. Research project: Intimacy and sexual heritage in Mozambique.
• B Camminga, Institute for Humanities in Africa, South Africa. Research project: (re) settled: The experiences of African transgender-identified asylum seekers and migrants living in Europe.
• Olumuyiwa Bayode Adegun, Federal University of Technology, Nigeria. Research project: Developing a framewok for just sustainability in informal settlement intervention in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Anthony Diala, Centre for comparative law in Africa, South Africa. Research project: Bottom-up peacebuilding: the interface between state and non-state commercial laws in Nigeria.
• Richard Sambaiga, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Research project: Contemporary discourses on fertility control and abortion in Tanzania: Competition, intersections and coexistence.
• Aziza Moneer, American University in Cairo, Egypt. Research project: 'It is not all about economic growth': Epistemology of the South and environmental movements in Egypt, Morocco and Algeria.
• Tabitha Naisiko, Makerere University, Uganda. Research project: Anthropological discourses of the post disarmament transition and gender disparities in Karamoja of Uganda.
• Josephine Musango, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Research project: Urbanisation and sustainable electricity for all in African cities: The case of Cape Town.

Nordic Scholarship Programme 2018

• Obert Hodzi, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: The end of a non-intervention era: China in African civil wars.
• Ruvimbo Mavhiki, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: Zero conditionality: The rise of competetive authoritarianism and China's foreign aid.
• Fisseha Tefera, Lund University, Sweden. Research project. Interrogating narratives of "Africa/Ethiopia rising" through local perceptions and practices of development in rural Ethiopia.
• Niina Ahola, University of Helsinki, Finland. Research project: Life after return - Revsiting the reintegration of former Lord's Resistance Army abductees.
• Timo Särkkä, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project: The lure of copper in colonial Zambia and Katanga: A study of the city finance and imperialism.
• Akinbode Fasakin, Stockholm University, Sweden. Research project: A study on the nexus of leadership and national security in Nigeria.
• Karine Jensen, Umeå University, Sweden. Research project: Contagion and culture: the 2005 - 2007 chikungunya epidemic in the western Indian Ocean.
• Ajali Nguyahambi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Research project: Growth into citizenship in civil society encounters (GROW) project.