Biographical note

Jean-Bernard Ouédraogo is Professor of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, and Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris. He is former Deputy Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), and the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Method(e)s: African Review of Social Sciences Methodology and co-editor of the African Sociological Review. His publications include Violences et communautés en Afrique noire; Arts photographiques en Afrique; L'expérience de la forme. La peinture de Kalidou Kassé; Global Exchanges and Gender Perspectives in Africa; and Readings in Methodology: Some African Perspectives.Mamadou Diawara is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Goethe Universität, Germany, where he is also Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies and Deputy Director of the Frobenius-Institut. His research focuses on oral tradition and history, media, migration between Asia and Africa and development in sub-Saharan Africa. His publications include Copyright Africa. Staging the Immaterial: Intellectual Property, Piracy and Performance in sub-Saharan Africa (with Ute Röschenthaler; 2016). Elísio S. Macamo is Professor of African Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland where he is also the Director of the Centre for African Studies and Head of the Social Sciences Department. He is the editor of the Sociology Series of the Munthu Institute, co-editor of the African Sociological Review and a member of the scientific committee of several scholarly journals. His most recent publication is The Taming of Fate: Approaches to Risk from a Social Action Perspective – Case Studies from Southern Mozambique. Dakar. CODESRIA (2017).