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Elisio Macamo is a professor of sociology focusing on Africa at the University of Basel since October 2009. He previously taught development sociology at the University of Bayreuth, where he was a founding member of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. Born and raised in Mozambique, he studied in Maputo, Salford, London, and Bayreuth. He holds a Master's degree in Translation Interpreting from Salford, a Master's in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of North London, and a PhD along with a Habilitation in general sociology from Bayreuth. Macamo has also been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Bayreuth and a research fellow at the Center for African Studies in Lisbon, Portugal. Additionally, he has been an AGORA Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and a guest lecturer at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. He regularly conducts methodological workshops for Portuguese-speaking African doctoral candidates with CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa) in Dakar, Senegal.
The University of Basel generally requires C1 level proficiency in the language of instruction. For most English-taught Masters, TOEFL (min 92-95) or IELTS (min 7.0) is the standard.