In 2014, the Gerda Henkel Foundation initiated a scholarship programme supporting young humanities scholars from Africa and Southeast Asia in honour of the foundation's founder, Lisa Maskell. It is the largest international support programme for PhD students in the history of the Foundation. The Lisa Maskell Fellowships aim to strengthen universities in the partner countries, to counter the outflow of qualified young scholars and to ensure the doctoral students enjoy excellent academic training.
L.I.S.A. has been publishing interviews with the Lisa Maskell Fellows from Subsaharan Africa and from Southeast Asia, in which they talk about their research projects as well as their experiences during their academic career and the Lisa Maskell fellowship.
This week, we welcome Serge Sabine Ntsama Onana from Cameroon. After receiving both a Bachelor's and a Master's degree in History from the University of Yaoundé I, he started his PhD in Sociology with the thesis Developing a common market for regional migrants in the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC): The case of Douala in Cameroon at Stellenbosch University in 2019.