MUTED HISTORIES: SEMINAR FIVE - DR. KENNETH OMBONGI

Kenneth Ombongi is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi. Previously, he was the Principal/Chief Executive Ofcer at the Kenya Utalii College, Nairobi. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge; MPhil from JawaharLal Nehru University; MA and BA from the University of Nairobi. His research interests include history of biomedicine in Africa, that of ideas and statecraft as well as African politics.

In this presentation, Dr. Ombongi will use long-drawn historical processes to argue that the enduring knack of Kenyans to take recourse into small-scale social universes of identity explains the perpetual intersections of Land, Electoral Violence and Identity.