In April and May 2024, Dr Saibu Mutaru, a postdoctoral fellow in the Re-imagining Reproduction project, delivered the 2024 Evans-Pritchard Lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. The lecture series was titled Naming the Witch, Housing the Witch and Living with Witchcraft: An Ethnography of Ordinary Lives in Northern Ghana’s “Witch Camps”.

The annual Lectureship was established in 1998 at All Souls College, University of Oxford, in memory of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, Professor of Social Anthropology and a Fellow at All Souls College (1946-1970). This is the first time an African scholar based in Africa has been elected to give the lectures since the establishment of the Lectureship.

Apart from giving lectures, the trip to Oxford offered Dr Mutaru the opportunity to network with scholars from various backgrounds. He interacted fruitfully with both students and faculty members from the departments of Anthropology, African Studies, Education and Development Studies. 

For more information about the lectures, visit https://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/Evans_Pritchard_Lectures_2024.