Lamine Doumbia is a postdoctoral researcher (individual fellow) at the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa – University of Ghana, Legon. His current research project is about urban land governance and bureaucratisation in Bamako, Ouagadougou and Dakar, Senegal - Mimicry and Hybridisation of logics. As an alumni of the University of Bayreuth (Social anthropology and African Studies), Lamine has been a postdoctoral fellow at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) within the framework of the transnational research group "Bureaucratisation of African Societies", based in Dakar at the Centre de Recherches sur les Politiques Sociales (CREPOS) – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar.