Författare: Mathias Fubah Alubafi

Mathias Alubafi Fubah is a Research Fellow in the Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices Programme at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, and a Research Associate at VIAD, University of Johannesburg. A native of Cameroon”s western Grassfields, Fubah has implemented fieldwork on art and museums in the region since 2004. His current research focuses on the indigenous criteria of the sculptural excellence of objects in the Cameroon collection at the Berlin Ethnological Museum. He is also working with Dr Peter Junge in preparing the Cameroon Grassfields exhibition for the Humboldt Forum scheduled to open in 2019. He has published in African Studies, Anthropos, and African Research and Documentation, and has co-authored a chapter on the Obasinjom Masquerade in Rituals: Practices, Ethnic and Cultural Aspects and Role in Emotional Healing (Nova Publishers, 2014). He has held fellowships at Witwatersrand and Cambridge Universities and was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge in 2012–13. He has co-supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students on art and museums in Africa at the Universities of Reading and the Witwatersrand. He is a reviewer for the Cambridge journal African Studies Review.