Dr. Facil Tesfaye
Programme Director
Assistant Professor

Email: ftesfaye@hku.hk

Dr Tesfaye who has a PhD in History from McGill University (Montréal/Canada), also holds an MA in Political Science from the Université du Quebec à Montréal. He did his undergraduate studies in African Studies and Political Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Germany).

• Research and Teaching Interests
Dr. Tesfaye’s areas of expertise include: African studies, Colonial & Post-Colonial African History, German Colonial Medical History in Africa, History of Medicine/Disease in Africa, History of Colonial Statistical Practices in Africa and Post Colonialism.

• Selected Publications
2015: Anna Winterbottom & Facil Tesfaye (Eds). Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World. Palgrave.

2014: STATISTIQUE (S) ET GENOCIDE AU RWANDA : La genèse d’un système de catégorisation « génocidaire ». Paris: L’Harmattan.

2012: "Review of Christoph Gradmann's Laboratory Disease: Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology." Canadian Journal of African Studies 45.2.

2009: "Sur la question de la population du Rwanda. De l'occupation allemande au lendemain du genocide." Note de recherche du CIRST 1: 1-25.

2007: "Statistik und Genozid in Ruanda: Wechselbeziehungen." In Herausforderung Bevoelkerung: Zu Entwicklungen des modernen Denkens ueber die Bevoelkerung vor, im und nach dem "Dritten Reich", edited by Josef Ehmer, Ursula Ferdinand and Jürgen Reulecke, 341-352. Wiesbaden: Verlag fuer Sozialwissenschaften.

2007: "The Rwandan Peacekeeping Experience: The 'Prostitution' of a concept?" In Les operations de paix: de Suez à Kandahar. Note de Recherche, by Kévin Dufault, Facil Tesfaye Badada and Issaka Souaré. Montréal: Centre d’études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité (CEPES) 33: 25-80.