Malik Ade, M.A.
PhD Candidate
University of Bonn
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Research Associate in Research Group Dependency, Gender and Labor in the Household
Niebuhrstraße 5
D-53113 Bonn
Phone: +49 / (0)228 / 73 62571
made[at]uni-bonn.de
Research
The Domestication of Women:
Gendering Labor, Wages, and Social Space in an African Society, ca. Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
My current research project aims to understand gender relations in the process of social reproduction and community (re)formation of an interior Yoruba group of West Africa. In other words, the project seeks to investigate the relationships between men and women in managing the socio-political situation of the 19th century in their quest for societal protection, preservation and community building. In doing so, the project critically studies written documents, oral traditions and indigenous institutions to find out: how political, social and economic imperatives of the 19th century affect gender relations; how social status and gender intersect in shaping the roles of men and women during this period; what (gendered) institutions and practices were retained or maintained to manage the affairs of the different communities within the region in question; and how the contingencies of the period affect these institutions and practices?
Period: 18th–20th centuries
Region: Africa
Specialization: Cultural History; Social and Economic History; Intellectual History; Gender History; Global and Imperial History
Education
- 2019–2022 Ph.D. in History, University of Bonn, Germany
- 2015–2017 M.A. in African Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
- 2011–2013 B.A. in English, History and Religion, University of Hannover, Germany
Academic Positions
- 2019–present Research Associate in Research Group Dependency, Gender and Labor in the Household,
University of Bonn, Germany
