K. Rene OdangaGraduate Student
I am a PhD student focusing on East Africa and the British empire in the nineteenth and twentieth century. My research is concerned with the consolidation of imperial control, and tracks how the establishment of British colonial rule in East Africa developed within contexts of the abolition of slavery, imperial war and violence, socio-economic transformations, land dispossession, and various other techniques of control. I am also interested in the later rise of African nationalist politics in a global perspective, and how anticolonial thinkers and activists in Africa and the diaspora marshalled histories of the experience of empire to pursue self-determination.
I received a BA in International Relations from the United States International University-Africa in Nairobi, and an MA in African Studies and Research from Howard University in Washington, DC.
Education
- B.A. United States International University - Nairobi
- M.A. Howard University
Research Interests
East Africa
Imperialism and Violence
Slavery and Abolition
Colonial Rule
African Nationalism
Dissertation Title
TBD
