Author Biography
Maike Birzle is a PhD student and research assistant at the Center for African Studies, University of Basel. She studied Applied African Studies (B.A) at the Universität Bayreuth and Social Anthropology (M.A.) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Before she started working on Burkina Faso she did extensive fi eldwork on youth in The Gambia, as her master thesis focused on agency and social navigation of rural Gambian male youth.
