Alula Pankhurst (born 1962) is an Ethiopian scholar and social development consultant whose main focus is Ethiopia and
Ethiopian studies. He has worked in Ethiopia for many years in a variety of positions including as an associate professor of anthropology at
Addis Ababa University
Addis Ababa University (AAU) ( am, አዲስ አበባ ዩኒቨርሲቲ) is a national university located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the oldest university in Ethiopia. AAU has thirteen campuses. Twelve of these are situated in Addis Ababa ...
and as the country director for
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Career
Pankhurst is a graduate of Oxford University and has an MA (1986) and PhD (1989) in Social Anthropology from the
Manchester University
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...
. He has strong links with Ethiopia; his grandmother
Sylvia Pankhurst
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was a campaigning English feminist and socialist. Committed to organising working-class women in London's East End, and unwilling in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with t ...
was a champion of Ethiopia during World War II and his father
Richard Pankhurst lived and worked in Ethiopia for decades. Pankhurst's first name is in honor of
Ras Alula, a famous Ethiopian leader. Pankhurst has led a variety of studies and projects on behalf of various groups such as the World Bank, IrishAid, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa, and
International Livestock Centre for Africa
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Publications
Pankhurst has published a number of academic and professional books and articles. Topics have included traditional
peacemaking and reconciliation, issues of internal migration and resettlement, poverty, AIDS, funeral associations, and access to natural resources. In ''Peripheral People'', he stated that marginalized people in Ethiopia are sometimes considered "not real people". The ''fuga'' group was identified as one of these and members were not allowed to participate in social and political administration of their community.
Partial bibliography
*Girke, Felix and Alula Pankhurst. 2011. Evoking Peace and Arguing Harmony: An Example of Transcultural Rhetoric in Southern Ethiopia, in C. Meyer and F. Girke eds. ''The Rhetorical Emergence of Culture''. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Book.
*Pankhurst, Alula. 1999. ‘Caste’ in Africa: the evidence from south-western Ethiopia reconsidered. ''Africa'' 69: 485–509.
*Pankhurst, Alula. 2008. The emergence, evolution and transformations of ''iddir'' funeral associations in urban Ethiopia. ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'' 41(1-2): 143–186.
*Pankhurst, Alula. 2006. A peace ceremony in Arbore, pp. 247–68 in Ivo Strecker and Jean Lydal ed. ''The Perils of Face: Essays on cultural contact, respect and self-esteem in southern Ethiopia.'' Münster: Litt Verlag.
*Pankhurst, Alula. 2004. Social exclusion and cultural marginalisation: minorities of craftworkers and hunters in Ethiopia in A. Bohnet and M. Hoher eds. ''The Role of Minorities in the Development Process''. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 85–128.
*Pankhurst, Alula. 2003. Research on Ethiopian societies and cultures during the second half of the Twentieth Century. ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'' 35: 1-60.
References
External links
Pankhurst's CV paper on AIDS responses from villages
Addis Ababa University faculty
Living people
Social anthropologists
Alumni of the University of Manchester
English people of Ethiopian descent
Ethiopian studies
English people of Italian descent
Alula
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1962 births
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