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Thoughts on Intellectual and Institutional Links Between African and Black Studies
(2008)
Black identity and nationalism in the civil rights era were forged through trans- Atlantic and Pan-African solidarity. Both African and African-American intellectuals and institutions played key roles in Pan-African ...
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (review)
(2005)
There are two main problems a scholar is likely to confront when writing on the Mau Mau insurrection in Kenya. The first is the challenge of crafting a study in a field that boasts a large historiography. Wading through ...
Spontaneous or premeditated?: Post-Election Violence in Kenya
(2011)
This Discussion Paper examines the high levels of post-electoral violence that followed the 2007 Kenyan elections. While noting that the conflict was triggered by the incumbent party’s abuse of the electoral process with ...
The Academy and its Disengagement from Popular Struggles in Kenya
(2010)
In this article, the academy refers generally to tertiary institutions of learning
including universities and polytechnics. But given the history of political engagements
between tertiary education institutions and the ...
Introduction
(2008)
This introductory article explains the origins of this special issue initiative in the work of a select number of African graduate students in the US. It locates the different articles included in the volume in the general ...
Fourth generation African scholars
(2008)
This special issue on the politics of knowledge production examines the role of the fourth generation of African scholars in knowledge production in Africa. Following the introduction by Godwin Rapando Murunga and Souleymane ...