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An Emerging Middle Class, Changing Mortuary Practices, and a New Funeral Economy in Northern Ghana
My current research project looks at recent dramatic changes to funerals among the Dagara of northwestern Ghana.
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Urban informality and middle-class aspirations in South Africa and Kenya
This project will take its point of departure in field work carried out by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and myself in two urban slum areas in South Africa and Kenya from the mid-1990s onwards.
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Multi-class families, regional disparities and the emergence of middle classes in Africa
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular.
