Book Launch for" Authoritarian Africa: Repression, Resistance and the Power of Ideas by Prof. Nic Cheeseman

Nic Cheeseman is a Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham and was formerly the Director of the African Studies Centre at Oxford University. He is the recipient of the GIGA award for the best article in Comparative Area Studies (2013) and the Frank Cass Award for the best article in Democratization (2015). He is also the author or editor of ten books, including Democracy in Africa(2015), Institutions and Democracy in Africa (2017) and How to Rig Election (2018), among others.

Angela Okune Discusses her Ongoing Ethnographic Research Project

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Angela Okune is a doctoral candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine. She studies data practices and infrastructures of research groups working in Nairobi, to explore broader questions of equity, knowledge production and socio-economic development in Africa. On his presentation, Angela Okune discussed her ongoing ethnographic research project and high lightened how research data is produced, shared and contested by a diverse research group in Kenya.

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