Ulf Engel is professor of “Politics in Africa” at the Institute of African Studies at Leipzig University, Germany. He is a visiting professor at the Institute for Peace and Security Studies (IPSS), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, and Professor Extraordinary in the Department of Political Science at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is also co-director of the DFG Special Research Programme 1448 “Adaptation and Creativity in Africa: Technologies and Significations in the Production of Order and Disorder” and director of the Graduate School of the DFG Collaborative Research Programme 1199 “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition”.
