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Oulia Makkonen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of English, Uppsala University, working within the ALMEDA project (African Literary Metadata) on audiovisual remediations of Kotéba Popular Theater in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire and French colonial catalogues.
Education:
- PhD in World Christianity and Mission Studies, Uppsala University (2022)
Research Focus: Her work critically examines intersections of Christianity, colonial history, and cinematic representation in West Africa. She analyzes how Kotéba Popular Theater transitions into audiovisual media, investigates religious narratives in African film, and studies archival materials from French colonial eras. Her methodology bridges film studies, postcolonial theory, and religious studies to decode cultural transmission in African contexts.
Publication Trends: Recent works demonstrate consistent focus on African cinema's engagement with religious identity and colonial legacies. Her scholarship progresses from doctoral analysis of biblical imagery in film (2022) toward broader historical frameworks of missionary influence in cinematic production (2024), with particular attention to Malian and Ivorian cultural expressions.
