Karel Arnaut is an anthropologist at Ghent University. He is also editor-in chief of Afrika Focus.
He is affiliated with affiliated with the Department of African Languages and Cultures and the Conflict Research Group, both at Ghent University.
The main focus of his research is student- and youth movements, social participation, and transformations of the public sphere in Côte d'Ivoire (West-Africa). Apart from that Arnaut teaches and conducts research on postcolonial dynamics in connection with the image, the societal position and the diasporic identities of Africa(ns) in Belgium and Europe.
