Participant Info
- First Name
- Anais
- Last Name
- Angelo
- Country
- Austria
- State
- anais.angelo@univie.ac.at
- Affiliation
- University of Vienna, Department of African Studies
- Website URL
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/persons/anais-angelo(6660fdbf-dee3-43cf-aa80-4248a5ad3de7)/publications.html
- Keywords
- African history, Kenyan history, Presidentialism, Decolonization, African women's history, Biography
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
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.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch!
- Recent Publications
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). Peer reviewed. To be published.
“Kenyan Political Autobiographies and the Revival of a Masculine Authority” in Gender & Authority, ed. by Adele Bardazzi and Alberica Bazzoni (Routledge). Peer reviewed. 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
- Media Coverage
- @anaishistory
- Country Focus
- Kenya
- Expertise by Geography
- Africa
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Emancipation, Gender, Government, Politics, Women
