Charline Kopf is Postdoctoral Fellow in social anthropology at the University of Oslo where she is working on a project called “Atmospheres of Dust: Particles, Pollution and Protests in Senegal” as part of the Epidemic Traces research group. Her interests also revolve around questions of history and memory in the postcolonial context, as well as infrastructures, im/ mobilities and borders in West Africa. She is currently writing on the afterlives of the Dakar-Bamako railway for the University of California Press’s book series “Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century.”