FLORENCE DAFE

Research In Progress


  • International finance and the politics of digital sovereignty in Africa – book project (DFG funding – Heisenberg grant – awarded in August 2025)
  • Central bank digital currencies and the exercise of power as autonomy: The introduction of the eNaira in Nigeria (under review)
  • The infrastructural power of tech companies and political disruption (with E. Conceiçao-Heldt, second round of revise and resubmit)
  • Growth models, financial subordination and growth coalitions in Brazil and Nigeria (with B. Bonizzi, A. Kaltenbrunner and P. Loureiro)
  • International financial hierarchies and the porous boundaries between industrial policy and economic statecraft (with L. Rethel)