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Henrietta Moore and Caleb Adebayo Folorunso win British Academy Award

Professor Moore and Professor Adebayo Folorunso (University of Ibadan, Nigeria) have been awarded a British Academy International Partnerships and Mobility Award, 2013-2015. The award will bring together a range of archaeologists, anthropologists and environmental scientists working on interdisciplinary understandings of intensive agricultural practices in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria.
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Research Project: Revisiting Marakwet

In April 2002, the remote district of Marakwet in the Rift Valley Province of northern Kenya and its adherence to the practice of female circumcision suddenly broke on to the world stage with dramatic consequences.
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Kampala couple 1970s

Research Project: Modern Lives

The Modern Lives study is premised on the importance of local, personal perspectives in understanding the meaning and nature of sexuality, intimacy and desire in Africa and their entanglements with the cultural processes we usually term as globalisation.
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