Nadine Machikou: "Invisible Intellectuals, African Academic Mobility in Question"

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[music] Speaker 1: So good afternoon everybody, welcome to the second episode of the sprint lectures on mobility struggles. My name is Joel Glasman, I'm teaching African history at the University of Bayreuth. And today we are welcoming Professor Nadine Machiku. Nadine Machiku is a professor of political sciences in the University of Yaoundé II in Cameroon. She has been an invited professor and a research fellow in several universities including Lyon III in France, Hanoi in Vietnam and the University of Bayreuth in Germany. She is member of the cluster Africa and multiple. Professor Machiku has published extensively on the political sociology of Cameroon and West Africa, on topics ranging from democratisation to political violence upon health infrastructure, protest movements and migration. I especially recommend her last publications on the war in Anglophone Cameroon, an article published recently by Politique africaine, and as well as a chapter prominently published in the last volume edited by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr, Politiques des temps, on what Professor Machiku calls the politics of compassion. Today Professor Machiku will speak about her ongoing project on African scholars at risks. And this research question is of course the question of endangered scholars and African intellectuals is of course a very good entry point into our topic of planetary mobility struggles. Thank you very much Professor Machiku for being there today. Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. Speaker 1: Can you please tell us how did you come to study scholars at risk? Where does your interest for this topic come from? Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you very much. I am first of all really grateful to have the opportunity to share some of my thoughts and projects on this issue of course, all of you, I am so happy to see you again, Cyrus, that I met last time, and thank you very much for your interest for this issue. So the question you asked me is very simple. There is a gap between spaces… Read the full text about 5,187 words

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