Fanidh Sanogo was awarded the Mandela Rhodes scholarship in 2020 to pursue a 2-year master’s program in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Fanidh’s previous research focused on cultural and linguistic translations of Female Genital Cutting in Burkina Faso. For her master’s thesis, she is interested in exploring ideals of femininity, with a special focus on makeup practices among young Burkinabe women working in a maquis (open bar). Fanidh is particularly fascinated by the ways in which epistemic differences unfold in post-colonial contexts, both at a structural and individual level.

One Pusumane is currently a PhD candidate in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include gender, decolonisation, ethnography, feminism, feminist institutionalism, humanitarian Intervention, gender mainstreaming, migration and development. One’s current doctoral work  is titled “Theorising the intimacies of precarity in Makoko, Lagos: spaces, dreams and bodies in transition”.