The research group SEJ-491: AFRICAInEs. Research and studies applied to development was institutionalized as an Andalusian research group in 2009, although the work began some years before in order to offer research applied to development and cooperation through rigorous research in the form of qualitative field studies from medium to long duration and / or doctoral thesis Social Sciences, especially, although not exclusively, on Africa. The objective, in addition, is to produce diagnostic studies useful for social intervention that take into account the complexity and cultural, social, economic and / or political diversity.

Members of the group have been part of the research team for the diagnosis of gender and development in Sub-Saharan Africa commissioned by the Spanish Agency for Development Cooperation (AECID), directed and coordinated by M. Soledad Vieitez Cerdeño and M. Dolores Ochoa Rodríguez ( 2009). This diagnosis was made by the company from Granada, Periferia, Consultoría Social (info@periferia.es or mariadolores@periferia.es) and led us to carry out field research in Angola, Botswana, Cape Verde, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria and Senegal.

The interest in applied research and social intervention with various disadvantaged groups is an important hallmark of this research group, always with the intention that the contexts are properly known for a better execution of plans, programs and projects. It is also explaining social realities to which a certain discourse does not reach or whose perception does not coincide with the policies to be applied. All with a vocation to make visible actions, resistance, strategies, etc.

The main lines of research are the following:
- Development, cooperation, women's movements and gender policies in Africa.
- Strategies for the integration of people and communities of the Senegalese diaspora in Granada.
- Urban economic strategies in Guinea-Bissau.
- Gender, development and economy in Tanzania.
- Islam, gender, culture and development in Yemen.
- Media and Africa.
- Migration, cooperation and development in the Maghreb.
- Daily resistance of the Sahrawi refugee women.
- Resistance and citizen movements.
- Health, person, body and reproduction in Benin.