{mosimage}Section "African Languages and Literatures" ("Lehrauftrag")

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Since April 2008 | Associate Researcher in the working section "African Languages and Literatures"

2006 | Completion of PhD (African Studies)

2004 - 2006 | External lecturer at the Institute of African Studies, University of Leipzig

Ab 1996 | Student of African Studies, Arabic Studies and General and Comparative Literature Studies at the University of Leipzig

1989 - 1995 | Consultant at SOLWODI, Boppard (counselling centre for migrants from Africa, Asia and Latin America)

1984 - 1989 | Secondary school teacher at several schools in Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz

1982/1984 | 1. and 2. German State Exam (German Language and Literature Studies and Protestant Theology) at the University of Heidelberg

Research focus

African Literature und orature, especially Hausa.

My PhD dissertation, „Magana Jari Ce von Abubakar Imam. Ein frühes Werk der Hausa-Literatur“ [Magana Jari Ce by Abubakar Imam. An early work of Hausa literature] (to be published), looks at the influences of written and oral traditions on one classic of Hausa literature that represents an important literary juncture. Plots and themes from Europe, the Arabic world, the Orient and Africa are incorporated into the poet’s work which describes and comments on his own world.

Other Projects

Translation of Magana Jari Ce

Examination of translations of The Thousand and One Nights into Hausa as well as of the history of their reception