Mirjam de Bruijn
Professor, Leiden University
Mirjam de Bruijn is a Professor in 'Contemporary History and Anthropology of Africa' at Leiden University and the African Studies Centre (ASC) in Leiden, The Netherands. She has managed several research programs, including 'Mobile Africa Revisited' (2008-2013), and is now heading the research programme 'Connecting in Times of Duress' (2012- 2017).
If we begin with the idea that African societies themselves are mobile, it is not a real surprise that mobile communications technologies have been easily adopted. The question is not if Africans can [...] More
