Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies

Thesis Oral Examination Notification

 

Time: July 24, 2026(Friday), 3:00pm.

Location: (via webcam meeting)

 

Student: KLIGUE Fo-Yawo Messan

Thesis Topic: The Decolonial Deadlock: Coloniality, Elite Mediation, and the Persistence of Franco-African Power Structures in West Africa

 

Advisor: Prof. Joyce Chi-Hui Liu

Oral Examination Committee Members:

Prof. Ya-Hsun Chan, (Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, NYCU )

Prof. Yuan-HorngChu (Emeriti Professor At the Institute of Social Research and Culture Studies National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University)

Dr. Ebede Ndi (Independent Scholar /Former Adjunct Associate Professor,

National Taipei University of Technology)

Dr. Etienne Lock (Research fellow, member of ALTER Research group (Barcelona); former Scientific Director of the Canadian Interdisciplinary

Research Center for Africa )

Prof. Derek Sheridan ( Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology at Academia Sinica Taiwan)

 

Welcome the attendance of those who are interested.