Dr. Laurence Marfaing

Former Associate

Dr. Laurence Marfaing

  • Short CV

    • Visiting professorship at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Direction de la recherche: Bureau appui à la recherche et à l'innovation (BARI), Dakar

    • 03/2013 - 05/2013: Visiting professorship at the Université Tours, Laboratoire CITERES, France

    • Since 2011: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Entrepreneurial Chinese Migrants and Petty African Entrepreneurs: Local Impacts of Interaction in Urban West Africa (Ghana and Senegal)"

    • 2008 - 2010: Research Fellow at GIGA, research project "Überlebensstrategien von Migranten in Transitstädten in Mali und Mauretanien"

    • 2005-2008: Cooperation with the CITERES in Tours (CNRS) in France: The Question of Authority in contemporary social and religious Recompositions in North and West Africa

    • 2002 - 2006: Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO), Berlin (http://www.zmo.de/Mitarbeiter/Marfaing/Marfaing.htm)

    • 1999 - 2002: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: Influence of Senegalese Migrants, especially from the Murids, in Germany on the Murids Brotherhood, their Investment and their Relation to State

    • 1995 - 1997: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg, Historical Seminar: research project "Senegalese Merchants between formal and informal sector: 1930-1996" (with 15 Months Fieldwork in Senegal)

    • 1994: Exhibition on Handcraft and artisans in Benin (Cové-Bohicon)

    • 1991 - 1993: Research Fellow, Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg: Making an African Bibliography of Colonial Books - published until 1945 - from the Libraries and Institutes of Hamburg

    • 1986 - 1990: Research Fellow, University of Hamburg: Commerce and Merchant in West Africa 1830 - 1930 (Senegambia and Ivory Coast)

    • 1985 - 1990: Teacher in History – French Grammar School in Hamburg

    • Education: Masters in History, University of Hamburg ("Communist Party and Communist Parliamentary Party in France during the popular front, 1936-1938"); DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) University of Nice, France ("The Communist Party Colonial Policy in North Africa), Doctorate in History, University of Hamburg ("Change and Evolution of Commerce in Senegal - 1820-1930")

    Current Research

    • Migration

    • Mobility

    Countries and Regions

    • West Africa

    Dr. Laurence Marfaing

    Former Associate



    Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines | 2019

    Les élections présidentielles de 2019 au Sénégal ou la lente ascension des nouvelles générations

    Dirk Kohnert

    Former GIGA Team member

    Deutsche Welle | Interview | 29/02/2012

    Chinese traders are shaking things up in the markets of Africa

    Conference | 20/01/2013 - 24/01/2013

    South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China

    South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China, Dakar Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Point Sud - Centre for Research on Local Knowledge Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist)

    South-South-Relations and Globalization: Chinese Migrants in Africa, African Migrants in China

    Conference | 30/05/2012 - 02/06/2012

    Tagung der Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland

    Tagung der Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland, Universität Köln, Köln Organisers: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist)

    Neue Akteure, neue Ordnung? Interaktion chinesischer Migranten, afrikanischer Unternehmer und lokaler Bevölkerung im urbanen Afrika

    GIGA Forum | 22/02/2012

    China in Afrika

    China in Afrika, GIGA Hamburg, Hamburg Organisers: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) Dr. Karsten Giese (Panelist), Dr. Laurence Marfaing (Panelist), Dr. Alena Thiel (Panelist), Dr. Margot Schüller (Moderator)

    China in Africa

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