Adam Higazi

Research Fellow in African Studies, University of Cambridge

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Research areas

West Africa, especially Nigeria; collective violence; anthropological perspectives on conflict; migration.

Current research

A Historical Ethnography of Conflict in Plateau State, Central Nigeria

- resource conflicts and collective violence in central Nigeria
- Plateau State & Middle Belt history and ethnography
- religion, indigeneity and local politics in Plateau State
- social mobilisation, vigilantism and militias
- relations between Fulbe/Fulani pastoralists and farmers

Recent publications

2009. ‘Response to Ken Wiwa, ‘If this is your Land, where are your Stories?’’ [on the Niger Delta conflicts], in T. Chesters (ed.) Land Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2005. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2008. ‘Social Mobilisation and Collective Violence in the Lowlands of Plateau State, Central Nigeria’, Africa 78 (1). Special issue, 'Perspectives on Vigilantism in Nigeria', edited by D. Pratten.

2007. 'Violence urbaine et politique à Jos (Nigeria), de la période colonial aux élections de 2007' ('The politics of urban violence in Jos, Nigeria, from colonial rule to the 2007 elections'), Politique africaine, No. 106, June, p. 69-91

2005. Integrating Migration and Development Policies: Challenges for ACP-EU Cooperation. Discussion Paper No. 62, European Centre for Development Policy Management, Maastricht.

2005. Informal Remittance Systems: Ghana Country Study. Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford. Commissioned by DFID and the EC’s Poverty Reduction Effectiveness Programme.

2003. ‘Dilemmas and Definitions in Post-Conflict Rehabilitation’, cover article in The ACP-EU Courier, No. 198, May-June, pp. 28-31. Published by the European Commission, Brussels.

CRISE Policy Paper on Ghana.

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