Koenraad Stroeken is an Associate Professor in Africanist Anthropology at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published over 50 articles and authored five international peer-reviewed volumes, of which the comparative ethnography Medicinal Rule (2018) and the monograph Moral Power (2012), all largely dealing with African rural communities in transition. He coordinates the Belspo project CongoConnect on the ongoing relevance of initiatory technologies in central Africa, and the Governance and Entrepreneurship research program with Mzumbe University, Tanzania. He is editorial board member of peer-reviewed journals: Anthropology & medicine and Afrika Focus.