2018 Graduates

2018 Graduates

Dr Nobert Basweti Home country: Kenya PANGeA partner: University of Nairobi Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: African Languages Supervisor: Prof Marianna Visser Dissertation title: Argumentation in Doctor-Patient Consultations in EkeGusii: A Pragma-Dialectical Approach	Dr Tsitsi Bangira Home country: Zimbabwe Year of enrolment: 2015 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: Geography and Environmental Studies Supervisor: Prof Adriaan van Niekerk Co-Supervisor: Prof Massimo Menenti (TU Delft) Dissertation title: Mapping surface water in complex and heterogeneous environments using remote sensing
Dr Annemi Conradie Home country: South Africa Year of enrolment: 2014 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: Visual Arts Supervisor: Prof Lize van Robbroeck Dissertation title: Africa-lite: Cultural appropriation and commodification of historic blackness in post-apartheid fabric and décor design	Dr Roshni Gokool Home country: South Africa Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: African Languages Supervisor: Prof Marianna Visser Dissertation title: Cognitive and Linguistic Complexity in a Task-based Computer-assisted Language-Learning Syllabus for Health Sciences Students
Dr Caesar Jjingo Home country: Uganda PANGeA partner: Makerere University Year of enrolment: 2014 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: African Languages Supervisor: Prof Marianna Visser Dissertation title: Cognitive Analysis in Task-based Syllabus Design for the Teaching and Learning of Kiswahili as a Second Language in Ugandian Secondary Schools	Dr Lily Kpobi Home country: Ghana PANGeA partner: University of Ghana Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Psychology Supervisor: Prof Leslie Swartz Dissertation title: Indigenous and Faith Healing for Mental Disorders: An Explanatory Study of Healers in Accra, Ghana
Dr Nathanael Lukanda Home country: Uganda PANGeA partner: Makerere University Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Journalism Supervisor: Prof George Claassen Dissertation title: From lab to fork? Press coverage and public (mis)perception of crop biotechnology in Uganda	Dr Michael Lyakurwa Home country: Tanzania PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam Year of enrolment: 2012 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: Philosophy (Applied Ethics) Supervisor: Prof Johan Hattingh Co-Supervisor: Late Prof SK Hellsten Dissertation title: Towards an approach to environmental ethics responsive to environmental challenges on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro
Dr Dominick Makanjila Home country: Tanzania PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: African Languages Supervisor: Prof Marianna Visser Dissertation title: Internal syntax of the Chimakonde determiner phrase	Dr Sallek Musa Home country: Nigeria Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Sociology Supervisor: Prof Lindy Heinecken Dissertation title: Military Internal Security Operations in Plateau State, North Central Nigeria: Ameliorating or Exacerbating Insecurity?
Dr Amon Mwiine Home country: Uganda PANGeA partner: Makerere University Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Sociology Supervisor: Prof Rob Pattman Co-Supervisor: Dr Michelle Sikes Dissertation title: Promotors of Gender Equality? A Study of the Social Construction of Specific Male Parliamentarians as "Male Champions" in Uganda	Dr Gaspardus Mwombeki Home country: Tanzania PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: African Languages Supervisor: Prof Marianna Visser Dissertation title: Strategic manoeuvring in the 2015 Tanzanian presidential election campaign speeches: A pragma-dialectical perspective
Dr Jacqueline Ojiambo Home country: Kenya Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: English Studies Supervisor: Prof Louise Green Co-Supervisor: Dr Dawid de Villiers Dissertation title: Films by Kenyan women directors as national allegories	Dr John Sanni Home country: Nigeria Year of enrolment: 2015 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Philosophy Supervisor: Prof Louise du Toit Co-Supervisor: Dr Dirk Louw Dissertation title: Exploring Martin Heidegger's Conceptions of Phenomenology and Transcendence: Addressing the Problem of Religious Fundamentalists Violence
Dr Miché Thompson Home country: South Africa Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: General Linguistics Supervisor: Prof Christine Anthonissen Dissertation title: Multilingualism in the Workplace: Communicative Practices between Store Owners and Assistants in Chinese Shops in Cape Town	Dr Jean-Pierre Togolo Home country: Cameroon PANGeA partner: University of Yaoundé I Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: Sociology Supervisor: Prof Simon Bekker Co-Supervisor: Prof Philippe Blaise Essomba (University of Yaoundé I) Dissertation title: Yaounde Apres L’independence: Les changements migratoires dans les processus d’urbanisation d’une ville capital 1960-2010 (English translation: Shifts in urbanization streams toward the capital city of Cameroon, Yaoundé, after independence 1960-2010)
Dr Valentine Uwiyezimana Home country: Rwanda Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: General Linguistics Supervisor: Dr Simone Conradie Dissertation title: An Investigation into the Effect of Mobile-Assisted Language Learning in Rwandan University Students' Proficiency in English as a Foreign Language	Dr Ibrahim Yakubu Home country: Ghana Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: December 2018 Department: Geography and Environmental Studies Supervisor: Prof Ronnie Donaldson Co-Supervisor: Dr Manfred Spocter Dissertation title: Residential Mobility Practices in Low-Income Communities of Tamale, Ghana
Dr Nestory Yamungu Home country: Tanzania PANGeA partner: University of Dar es Salaam Year of enrolment: 2016 Graduation date: April 2019 Department: Geography and Environmental Studies Supervisor: Prof Ronnie Donaldson Co-Supervisor: Dr Manfred Spocter Dissertation title: Street-level bureaucrats and piecemeal planning approaches in the Tanzanian small towns of Mlandizi and Sirari