Date:
Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 12:00pm
Location:
HIPHOP ARCHIVE & RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT THE HUTCHINS CENTER, 104 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, FLOOR 2R, CAMBRIDGE, MA
Kenda Mutongi is a Professor of History at MIT. Dr. Mutongi’s scholarship focuses on the cultural history of Kenya.
Dr. Mutongi’s book-length project is Arson and Protest in Kenyan Schools, 1910 to the Present. It traces the history of both violent and non-violent protests by secondary school students in Kenya from the 1910s to the present; it will enrich historiographies on education, protest, childhood, family, precarity and resilience, and on colonial and postcolonial Africa.
As part of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series, she will be presenting on the "The Crooked Scaffold: A Collection of Essays on Contemporary Kenya".