Professor of History, University of Rochester
As an economic historian, with specialization in international trade and economic development, I attempt in my research and teaching to make history relevant to the main concerns of people in our contemporary world. Since the social sciences do not have laboratories, as the natural sciences do, I believe history can operate as a laboratory for the better understanding of issues that are of primary...
Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University
Born and raised in Sudan, my experiences have been marked by political instability, dictatorial governments, economic problems, conflict, and exile. I was in high school when the current round of civil war resumed. This is a state of existence that has forced every Sudanese adult person to be politically aware and active. Both in high school and university, I was actively involved in the political...
Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University
Kabamba received his M.A. in Anthropology at Columbia University, a Masters in Development Studies and in Philosophy at the University of Natal Durban, South Africa and his B.A. in Philosophy from Centre Sevres, Jesuit College of Philosophy, Paris. He has been an Instructor at Columbia University, an Assistant researcher for the Social Science Research Center (SSRC - Johannesburg, South Africa) mi...
Senior Lecturer, Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi
Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a law researcher and teacher based in Nairobi, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Chair of the Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi. She has served as Acting Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi and Director of Research, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi. She studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, Zimbabwe and Stanford and currently teache...
Former Acting Executive Director, Nairobi Peace Initiative
John Katunga Murhula was the acting executive director of the Nairobi Peace Initiative-Africa, a pan-African peace resource organization with long experience in peace and reconciliation issues in Africa. John Katunga is currently a research scholar for the Africa Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC where he received the Distinguished African Scholar Aw...
Advocate of the High Court of Kenya; Former Chairman, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR); Multimedia Correspondent with Radio Africa Group
SubjectsAfrica ExperienceHuman rights; political analysis; civil society; management and multimedia
Senior Fellow, Institute for Global Dialogue, Pretoria
Francis Kornegay is a South African permanent resident whose career spans African and international affairs engagements in both the US and South Africa. With a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in African Studies from Howard University, and a Masters in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies, Kornegay twice served as a profess...
Born and raised in Sudan, my experiences have been marked by political instability, dictatorial governments, economic problems, conflict, and exile. I was in high school when the current round of civil war resumed. This is a state of existence that has forced every Sudanese adult person to be politically aware and active. Both in high school and university, I was actively involved in the political...
Patricia Kameri-Mbote is a law researcher and teacher based in Nairobi, an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Chair of the Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi. She has served as Acting Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi and Director of Research, African Centre for Technology Studies, Nairobi. She studied law in Nairobi, Warwick, Zimbabwe and Stanford and currently teache...