Christian Bawa Yamba

Background

Christian Bawa Yamba was born on February 28, 1944, in Larteh, Sweden. He is the son of Alie and Juliana Yamba.

Education

Yamba graduated from the University of Stockholm with a bachelor's degree in 1977 and received his doctorate from it in 1990. He also attended London School of Oriental and African Studies from 1978 to 1979.

Career

Yamba started his career as a researcher by working as a curator for Africa at Ethnographical Museum of Sweden in Stockholm from 1988 to 1990. He then began working as a senior research fellow in Division of International Health Care Research at Karolinska Institute, and currently, he works at Diakonhjemmet University College.

During his career, Yamba also served as a lecturer at the University of Stockholm from 1980 to 1998.

Achievements

• Christian Yamba is best known as an epistemologist, otologist and the author of such work as Of the Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan published in 1990 and Permanent Pilgrims published in 1995.

Works

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  • Permanent Pilgrims

    (Moving from their historic beginnings in Nigeria to the r...)

    1995
  • Of the Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan 1990

Membership

Yamba is a member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Great Britain and the Commonwealth and Royal Anthropological Institute.

Connections

Yamba was married to Barbro Bolinder, whom he then divorced. The couple had 3 children, Christopher, Robert and Emily.

Father:

Alie Yamba

Mother:

Juliana Yamba

ex-wife:

Barbro Bolinder

Son:

Christopher Yamba

Son:

Robert Yamba

Daughter:

Emily Yamba