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Director of Point Sud, Bamako, Mali
Member of the DGS "Developmental Sociology and Social Anthropology" department Founding member of  the "Association pour l'anthropologie du développement (APAD)" (Paris)
Editor, "Working papers on the subject of local knowledge" (Point Sud, Bamako) Member of the editorial board, "Mande Studies Association Review", "africa spectrum" and "Paideuma"
Founding member of the "International Working Group for Tolerance Research" (Bayreuth)
Founding member of the NGO "Center for Research in Local Knowledge" (Point Sud, Bamako)
"Principal Investigator" of the cluster of excellence "Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen" at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

Research focus: Development ethnology, oral history/oral traditions in the media age, globalisation, African history

Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, especially Mali; local knowledge