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I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for African Studies, University of Vienna (Austria). A passionate historian, I am currently working on the incredible lives of the first Kenyan women who campaigned for a parliamentary seat in the 1960s-1970s, a time that when politics remained an essentially male field.

Originally trained as a political scientist in Sciences Po Paris, I started specializing in African studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) and completed my Ph.D. at the  Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy). My first book, Power and the Presidency in Kenya: The Jomo Kenyatta Years (1958-1878) (Cambridge University Press, 2020). analyzes the making of Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta as well as the roots of presidential powers in postcolonial Kenya.

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Recent Publications

“Women in Philosophy (African Feminist Philosophy.” Commissioned by Oxford University Press for the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women History for 2022.

The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins and Alternative Histories of Power. Edited volume. Routledge African Studies Serie, 2021.

Power and the Presidency: The Jomo Kenyatta Years. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

“Wangari Maathai” in Women Who Changed the World, ed. by Candice Goucher (ABC-Clio). To be published.

Jomo Kenyatta and the Repression of the “Last” Mau Mau Leaders, 1961-65,” Journal of Eastern African Studies 11 no. 3, 442-459. Peer reviewed. 2017

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Kenya

Expertise by Geography

Africa

Expertise by Chronology

20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Colonialism, Emancipation, Gender, Government, Politics, Women