School of Social and Political Science

Research interests

Sounding the Aural Border: Nzema Popular Music Scenes between Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire

My ethnographic work interrogates the 'aural border' between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire as it is (re)produced, negotiated and/or contested by the articulation of popular music scenes and small scale industries in the Nzema borderlands straddling the southernmost section of the international boundary. The research aims to recentre the geopolitical margins of the state (the village, the borderland) in our scholarly understanding of contemporary African popular culture and makes the case for a relational -  regional yet transnational - approach to cultural production and creative industries in West Africa. 

Supervisors

Prof. Paul Nugent, Dr. José-Maria Muñoz

Funding

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Award