Spotlight on researchers in Uganda and Ghana
In these video interviews we speak with CERTIZENS PhD researchers Milcah Abasabyona and Isaac Owusu Nsiah about their research and why it matters.
Milcah’s work focuses on the conditions and experiences of ‘ghetto youth’ living mostly without legal forms of national identification in some of Kampala’s poorest informal settlements, while Isaac’s project considers the interplay of formal national identification systems with the logics and dynamics of everyday ‘lived’ citizenship, focusing on the experiences of Ghanaian Fulanis in the country’s Ashanti Region.
The interviews were conducted in November 2021 in Accra, during the CERTIZENS annual team workshop.
Milcah Abasabyona
Project title: Intimacies of Identification and Lived Citizenship Among the Ghetto Youths in Kampala
Isaac Owusu Nsiah
Project title: Intimacies of Identification and Lived Citizenship Among the Fulani at Agogo