Voicing African Voices

Author

Siri Lamoureaux

Siri Lamoureaux is a PhD researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. She is currently carrying out fieldwork in Sudan on the impact of a language and literacy programme among Nuba Moro people resident in Khartoum. Her project is entitled “Language, communication technologies and identity politics in the Nuba Mountains”.

Anthropology Gender & Women's Studies Social Sciences

Message in a Mobile

by Siri Lamoureaux

Mixed-Messages, Tales of Missing and Mobile Communities at the University of Khartoum This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students…

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