Elísio Macamo is Professor of African Studies at the University of Basel since 2009. He taught Developmental Sociology at the University of Bayreuth where he was also a founding member of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. Born and raised in Moçambique, he studied in Maputo, Salford, London and Bayreuth. He holds a Master in Translation and Interpreting (Salford), a Master in Sociology and Social Policy (University of North London) and a PhD as well as a Habilitation in Sociology (Bayreuth). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Bayreuth, Research Fellow at the Center for African Studies in Lisbon, AGORA-Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Guest professor at  Eduardo Mondlane University in Moçambique. He organizes Doctoral Workshops within CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal). His projects include African Political Cultures: A Comparative Study in Guinea-Bissau, Libya, South Africa, and Zambia. His main academic interests are in Sociology of Religion, Technologies, Knowledge production and Politics; comparative empirical studies of Africa and Asia.

Selected Publications

Reviewed articles 2010: „Making Modernity Accountable: A Case Study of Youth in Mozambique” in: Caderno de Estudos Africanos (special issue on youth and modernity in Africa), Pp.19-47.
2010: “Social Theory and Making Sense of Africa” In: M. Diawara, B. Lategan and J. Rüsen (eds.): Historical Memory in Africa – Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. New York: Berghahn Books. 
2006: Accounting for Disaster – Memories of War in Mozambique. In Afrika Spectrum, Vol.41, Special Issue: Memory cultures; pp.199-219.

Monographies

2011 (forthcoming): The Taming of Fate: Approaches to Risk from a Social Action Perspective – Case Studies from Southern Mozambique. Dakar: CODESRIA (unpublished Habilitation Thesis). 
2011 (forthcoming): Risk in Afrika: Conceptualising risk in contemporary Africa (edited with Lena Bloemertz, Martin Doevenspeck, Detlef Müller-Mahn). Münster: Lit Verlag.