Professors
- Prof. Dr. Shọla Adenekan – African Literatures
- Prof. Dr. Felicitas Becker – African History
- Prof. Dr. Koen Bostoen – African Languages & Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Inge Brinkman – African Literatures
- Prof. Dr. Hugo DeBlock – African & Pacific Anthropology
- Prof. Dr. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver – African Languages & Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Johan Lagae – African Architecture
- Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys – African History
- Prof. Dr. Michael Meeuwis – African Languages & Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Sara Pacchiarotti – African Languages & Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Koen Stroeken – African Anthropology
Post-doctoral researchers
- Dr. Peter Coutros – African Archaeology
- Dr. Jessamy Doman – African Archaeology
- Dr. Hilde Gunnink – African Languages & Linguistics
- Dr. Guy Kouarata – African Languages & Linguistics
- Dr. Minah Nabirye – African Languages & Linguistics
- Dr. Nick Rahier – African Anthropology
- Dr. Peer Schouten – African Politics
Visiting professors
- Prof. Dr. Maarten Couttenier (Royal Museum for Central Africa – Tervuren) – African Anthropology & History
- Prof. Dr. Maud Devos (Royal Museum for Central Africa – Tervuren) – African Languages & Linguistics
- Prof. Dr. Vicky Van Bockhaven – African Anthropology & History
Affiliated researchers
- Dr. Jonna Katto – African History
- James Wachira – African Literatures
Assistants
- (none)
Language teachers
- Esther Ngulwa – Swahili
- Lambert Phuati-Nzita – Lingála
Teaching assistants
- Laura Andriessen – African Anthropology
- Carmen Dhondt – African Ethnography
- Amber Frateur – African Literatures
- Dr. Heidi Goes – African Languages & Linguistics
PhD students
- Nureni Bakenne – African Literatures
- William Blondeel – African History
- Emelien Devos – African Anthropology
- Milkessa Edae – African Literatures
- Tsehay Dinsa – African Literatures
- Vitor Gama – African Musicology
- Annalisa Greco – Digital Humanities
- Christopher Hebert – African Literatures
- Lorenzo Maselli – African Languages & Linguistics
- Terefe Mitiku – African Literatures
- Dominik Phyfferoen – African Musicology
- Megersa Regassa – African Literatures
- Diana Salakheddin – African Art History
- Kristien Spooren – African Anthropology
- Sifra Van Acker – African Languages & Linguistics
- Hein Vanhee – African History
- Félix Amand Fufulafu Zaniwe – African History
Former professors
Prof. Dr. Jan Blommaert [2005.10.01 – 2021.01.06] – African Sociolinguistics
Prof. Dr. Jan (Ngo Semzara) Kabuta [1992.09 – 2010.09] – Cilubà
Former post-doctoral researchers
Dr. Bernard-Olivier Clist [2012.01.19 – 2021.09.20] – African Archaeology
Dr. Rozenn Guérois [2018.04.01 – 2020.03.31] – African Languages & Linguistics
Dr. Wannes Hubau [2019.04.01 – 2020.07.31] – Anthracology & Wood biology
Dr. Jonna Katto [2019.02.01 – 2022.12.31] – African Gender Studies & History
Dr. Joseph Koni Muluwa [2012.11.01 – 2017.07.09] – African Languages & Linguistics
Dr. Mena Lafkioui [2005.10.01 – 2014.09.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
Dr. Gillian Mathys – African History
Dr. Carine Plancke – African Anthropology
Dr. Dirk Seidensticker [2018.01.01 – 2020.09.30] – African Archaeology
Dr. Oluseun Tanimomo – African Literatures
Dr. Sarah Van Beurden [2018.09.01 – 2020.09.30] – African History & Anthropology
Dr. Annelies Verdoolaege [2008.04.01 – 2016.12.31] – African Sociolinguistics
Former visiting professors
Prof. Dr. Bernard-Olivier Clist [2017.03.01 – 2019.01.31] – African Archaeology
Prof. Dr. Els Cornelissen (Royal Museum for Central Africa – Tervuren) – African Archaeology
Prof. Dr. Sigurd D’hondt [2011.01.01 – 2015.09.30] – African Sociolinguistics
Prof. Dr. Mark Dingemanse [2016.10.01 – 2017.09.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Hannah Gibson [2018.02.01 – 2018.09.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Kasper Juffermans [2016.10.01 – 2017.01.31] – African Sociolinguistics
Prof. Dr. Jean Karangwa [2011.12.01 – 2017.01.31] – Swahili
Prof. Dr. Joseph Koni Muluwa [2015.11.01 – 2017.01.31] – African Languages & Linguistics
Prof. Dr. Ivo Ntiege Mesumbe Ngade [2020.09.01 – 2023.02.14] – African Anthropology
Prof. Dr. Katrien Pype [2013.02.11 – 2013.09.30] – African Anthropology
Prof. Dr. Bienvenu Sene Mongaba [2016.10.01 – 2017.09.30] – Lingála
Prof. Dr. Vicky Van Bockhaven [2014.10.01 – 2015.09.30] – African Anthropology & History
Prof. Dr. Mathieu Zana Etambala – African History
Former assistants
Dieter Devos [2011.10.01 – 2015.09.30] – African Anthropology
Dr. Hilde Gunnink [2012.10.01 – 2018.09.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
Dr. Margot Luyckfasseel [2016.02.01 – 2022.01.31] – African History & Anthropology
Dr. Carine Plancke [2022.02.01 – 2022.10.30] – African Anthropology
Former language teachers
Jutta De Nul – Swahili
Georges Mertens [2012.02.15 – 2016.09.30] – Swahili
Dr. Manoah-Joël Misago [2017.07.29 – 2018.09.23] – Swahili
Kayembe Nzembela [2010.10.01 – 2012.09.30] – Cilubà
Gundelinda Shayo [2019.09.26 – 2020.09.06] – Swahili
Former teaching assistants
Ewout Decoorne [2019.11.01 – 2020.12.31] – African literatures
Dr. Sebastian Dom [2018.11.01 – 2020.01.31] – African Languages & Linguistics
Kristien Geenen [2013.04.01 – 2015.03.31] – African Anthropology
Louise Martens [2019.06.04 – 2019.06.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
Former PhD students
- Dr. Mandela Mazanga Kaumba
Production et circulation de la céramique des trois derniers siècles dans l’aire kongo : une approche combinée des données ethnographiques, muséales et archéologiques (2022) - Dr. Michel Onokoko Onyumbe
Éléments de description de la phonologie et de la morphologie du cíbìnjì cyà ngúsú, langue bantoue (L231) du Kasaï Central, R.D. Congo (2022) - Dr. Bruna da Silva
Specialised digital frame-based lexicography from the perspective of dictionary use research (2022) - Dr. Heidi Goes
A historical-comparative approach to phonological and morphological variation in the Kikongo Language Cluster with a special focus on Cabinda (2022) - Dr. Margot Luyckfasseel
Kongo with a K : acoustic repertoires and hegemony in Kinshasa (2021) - Dr. Eric Mijts
The situated construction of language ideologies in Aruba : a study among participants in the language planning and policy process (2021) - Dr. Mohamed Ghasia
Supporting micro-learning access through the Ujuzi mobile app : a brokerage deployment model and pilot study for Tanzanian higher education institutions (2019) - Dr. Sebastian Dom
Bantu verbal derivation and tense/aspect from a historical-comparative perspective: The Kikongo Language Cluster and beyond (2018) - Dr. Lurdes Rodrigues da Silva
Communication Strategies of Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Programmes in Mozambique: The Cultural Challenges of Programa Geração Biz (2018) - Dr. Manoah-Joël Misago
Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus (2018) - Dr. Hilde Gunnink
A grammar of Fwe. A Bantu language of Zambia and Namibia (2018) - Dr. Deo Kawalya
A corpus-driven study of the expression of modality in Luganda (Bantu, JE15) (2017) - Dr. Karin van Bemmel
Nodding syndrome in Northern Uganda : conceptualizations of an illness-in-the-making (2017) - Dr. Igor Matonda Sakala
Le bassin de l’Inkisi à l’époque du royaume Kongo : confrontation des données historiques, archéologiques et linguistiques (2017) - Dr. Felix Ulombe Kaputu
‘Chilima’ and the remaking of Chokwe identity : an exploratory interdisciplinary study on globalization, material traditions and gendered cosmo-polity (2017) - Dr. Minah Nabirye
A corpus-based grammar of Lusoga (2016) - Dr. Mrisho Mbegu Malipula
Ethnicity, voting and the promises of the independence movement in in Tanzania : the case of the 2010 general elections in Mwanza (2016) - Dr. Ernest Nshemezimana
Morphosyntaxe et structure informationnelle en kirundi: focus et stratégies de focalisation (2016) - Dr. Langues bantoues de l’entre Congo-Ubangi (RD Congo): documentation, reconstruction, classification et contacts avec les langues oubanguiennes (2015)
- Dr. Julien Mbwangi Mbwangi
Le théâtre africain et ses caractéristiques : analyse de quelques critères définitoires à travers le théâtre urbain kikongophone (2015) - Dr. Social connectivity and HIV risk behavior: mobile phones and sexuality in Yaoundé youth culture (2014)
- Dr. Ferdinand Mberamihigo
L’expression de la modalité en kirundi : exploitation d’un corpus électronique (2014) - Dr. Troy Thomas
Response styles and the quality of survey data: evidence from Guyana (2014) - Dr. Anja Veirman
Filafani in Folona : moddertextiel en Sadogo-divinatie bij de Senufo van Folona (Mali) (2013) - Dr. Wim Van Daele
‘Cooking’ life : the vibrant entanglement of food and human beings in Sri Lanka (2013) - Dr. Bienvenu Sene Mongaba
Le lingála dans l’enseignement des sciences dans les écoles de Kinshasa : une approche socioterminologique (2013) - Dr. L’étude de la néologie terminologique en Bantu : cas de la “cilubalisation” des termes français des équipements et matériels de bureau
Former PhD students (who aborted their doctoral studies at UGent)
- Hellen Kagotho [2022 -2023] – African Literatures
Storytelling and young people coping with crisis. Oral narratives and crisis management in Kenya and Ethiopia - Katharina Jungnickel [2018.10.01 – 2022.09.30] – African Archaeology
An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa - Jean-Michel Kibushi Ndjate Wooto [2019.08.16 – 2022.09.25] – African Anthropology & History
Leopard men in Congo. Myths and realities - Hannelore Vandenbergen [2015.03.04 – 2021.09.26] – African anthropology
The Hutereau expedition and chief Maloka. (Post)colonial layers of agency and exchange in NE Congo - Timothy Hunt [2019.09.18 – 2021.09.26] – African History
Tanzania’s historiography. Bhoke Munanka, (covert) politics and the uses of biography for historical research - Jair Schalwijk [2014.10.16 – 2020.09.20] – African Anthropology
Evaluating ownership of development projects in Suriname - Jutta De Nul [2018.03.01 – 2020.09.10] – African Languages & Linguistics
Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili - Jasper De Kind [2012.10.01 – 2017.09.30] – African Languages & Linguistics
The interface between information structure, syntax and prosody in Kikongo. An integrated descriptive, comparative and diachronic approach - Boniface Omachonu Omatta [2006.11.27 – 2017.09.24] – African Anthropology & Political Science
From Nation Space to Nationhood: A Historical and Critical Analysis Towards Overcoming Religio-Political Conflicts in Nigeria - Dieter Devos [2013.10.01 – 2017.09.24] – African Anthropology
An anthropological study of traditional healing in Mozambique - Els Cranshof [2012.11.12 – 2016.12.11] – African Archaeology
The Kongo kingdom. Chrono-typological and archaeological study of its pottery - Guy N’Douli [2012.06.01 – 2013.09.22] – African Languages & Linguistics
Syntaxe et structure d’information en civili et en kikongo véhiculaire de Pointe-Noire : une étude comparative