Mirjam de Bruijn

Mirjam de Bruijn is Professor of Contemporary History and Anthropology
of Africa, at Leiden University (The Netherlands). As an anthropologist
she has done much interdisciplinary research on the interrelationship
between agency, marginality, mobility, communication and technology in
West and Central Africa, especially Cameroon, Chad and Mali, leading
major research projects on Information and Communication Technologies
(ICTs). In this connection she published numerous articles in scholarly
journals and edited the volumes The Social Life of Connectivity in
Africa (with Rijk van Dijk, Palgrave Mac Millan 2012) and Side@Ways:
Marginality and Communication in Africa (with Inge Brinkman and Francis
Nyamnjoh, ASC Leiden and Langaa 2013).