About
My work is broadly in the fields of African politics, political and economic philosophy and history of political thought in Africa. I have regional expertise on East Africa.
Research interests: Statehood & Anarchism in Africa | Utopia in the history of African political thought | African political economy
The State and its Competitors in African Political Thought
This thesis traces a critical history of statehood and its competitors in East Africa primarily from the twentieth century to the present, crucially including an analysis of the thought (from both elites and non-elites) that surrounded and challenged the coming-into-being of present state-forms. It highlights the contradictions and non-straightforwardness of the debates, as well as the needs and desires that animated them. It also contends with the contemporary disappointments of the state, rereading and critiquing the way the failures of the state are framed in the literature in order to develop a more robust normative yardstick for gauging state success.
Primary supervisors: Professor Leigh Jencoand Dr Liam Kofi Bright
Secondary supervisor: Professor Catherine Boone
Teaching
- GV262: Contemporary Political Theory
- GV248: Power and Politics in the Modern World
- GV101: Introduction to Political Science
- PH333: Philosophy of Gender and Race
- IR221: Africa and the World: Political Economy of Development