Dr Yamikani Ndasauka will be spending a year with us as a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine, and Public Health (CPEMPH, recently established within the IMH) and as a member of the DRP Measurement Lab.
Yami will be based in the Department of Philosophy. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Malawi, with a strong track record of interdisciplinary collaboration with psychologists and others. During his stay he will be working on a project rethinking the aetiology of substance abuse and addiction in sub-Saharan Africa, from the perspective of indigenous thought systems (Ubuntu). Research on addiction in Sub-Saharan Africa has been sporadic and uncoordinated, and has been dominated by Western understanding of the problem. The project aims to stage a critical conversation between Western and African indigenous knowledge systems to proffer an aetiology of substance abuse and addiction that is consistent with the two thought systems. It will be multidisciplinary, drawing from Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, and Epidemiology. Yami’s work is part of Disease and Power: Teachings from Africa, one of the CPEMPH’s umbrella projects.
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