Marie-Aude Fouere

Marie-Aude Fouéré is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She published a monograph in French on interethnic joking relationships in Tanzania (2008) resulting from her PhD thesis conducted in Morogoro region. She (co-)edited several special issues of academic journals and volumes on Tanzania and East Africa in French and in English, among them her most recent volume Remembering Nyerere in Tanzania: History, Memory,...See more

Marie-Aude Fouéré is Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She published a monograph in French on interethnic joking relationships in Tanzania (2008) resulting from her PhD thesis conducted in Morogoro region. She (co-)edited several special issues of academic journals and volumes on Tanzania and East Africa in French and in English, among them her most recent volume Remembering Nyerere in Tanzania: History, Memory, Legacy published with Mkuki na Nyota (2015). She also worked as a consultant for UNESCO and UNHCR in refugee camps on intangible culture heritage in East Africa. Her main research interests in Tanzania cover collective memories, belonging, nationalism, print culture, museums and archives, focusing on the figure of Julius Nyerere, on ujamaa, and on the revolution in Zanzibar. See less