The Journal of the African Literature Association has published graduate student Vincent Ogoti‘s article, “Soundscape and Narrative Dynamics in Chinelo Okparanta’s ‘Under the Udala Trees.‘” Additionally, the University of Nairobi Traveling Theatre will perform his …
Grad Students
PhD Student Kathryn Mara Earns Honorable Mention
Kathryn Mara’s essay entitled “Jenoside, Génocide, Genocide: Socialization into Naming the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi” has been chosen as the Honorable Mention for the 2019 Bennetta Jules-Rosette Graduate Essay Award from the Association of …
Astou Gueye & Vincent Ogoti Earn African Studies Program Travel Awards
Ph.D. students Astou Gueye and Vincent Ogoti have been chosen to receive African Studies Program Travel Awards to support doctoral fieldwork. Gueye will conduct research in Senegal on the institution of jonge. Ogoti will conduct research …
Kiiru, Harry
Wamalwa, Kevin
Dyer, Unifier Tshimangadzo
Unifier Dyer’s research interest is in Indigenous Knowledge systems in contemporary literature and creative works on and by women. She completed her MA in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa focused …