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CURRICULUM VITAEJanuary 2017
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Ogude, James Adera
Contact Address: The Centre for the Advancement of ScholarshipOld College House – Hatfield Campus
University of PretoriaPrivate Bag X20, PRETORIA 0002
Tel. (012) 4202692 (W)
Cell: 082 336 4083 E-mail: [email protected]
Date of Birth: 5 September 1955
Citizenship: Kenyan
Resident Status: Permanent Resident, South Africa(ID NO: 5509055848183)
Spouse Prof. Nthabiseng Ogude, Dean Mamelodi Campus, University of Pretoria
Children Dr Omondi, Thabo (son) – Medical OncologistHelida, Refiloe (daughter) - World Bank: Washington DC
EDUCATIONAL CAREER
University of the Witwatersrand: PhD. in African Literature (1996)
University of Nairobi: M.A. in Literature (1984)
University of Nairobi: B.Ed (Hons.) upper 2nd class in Literature, English and Education (1979)
Scientific Rating (National Research Foundation): NRF “B3” rated scientist
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ACADEMIC POSTS HELD (WORK EXPERIENCE)
January 2017 - Present: Director,Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria.
May 2013 - Present Professor and Senior Research Fellow,Deputy Director Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
January 2010 – April 2013: Professor of African Literature and Cultures
January 2008 - 2009: Professor and Head of African Literature(Faculty of Humanities)
March 2007 – Dec 2007: Professor of African Literature and Assistant Dean: Research (Faculty of Humanities).
2006 – February 2007: Associate Professor of African Literature and Assistant Dean: Research (Faculty of Humanities).
August 2003 - December 2003: Acting Deputy Head of School: School of Literature and Language Studies.
January 2002 - June 2005: Associate Professor and Head: The Discipline of African Literature.
January 1999 - 2001: Senior Lecturer and Head: African Literature Dept., University of the Witwatersrand .
2000: Visiting Fellow, African Studies Centre / Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
1994-1998: Lecturer, African Literature Dept., University of the Witwatersrand
1993: African Literature Co-ordinator and Head of Academic Division, Khanya College.
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Part-time lecturer, African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
1992: Junior Lecturer, African Literature Dept., University of the Witwatersrand.
1991: Tutor, African Literature Dept.,Wits University.
Part-time Tutor in Communication Skills, Funda Centre.
1988-1990: Lecturer in Literature, Moi University, Kenya.
1989: Visiting Fellow, Department of Comparative and African Literature, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
1987: Clarkebury College of Education, Transkei.
1984 -1986: Lecturer, English Department, The National University of Lesotho.
1982 - 1983: High School Teacher of English/Literature Teacher, Lesotho.
1979-1980: English / Literature Teacher, St. Patrick's Iten, High School, Kenya.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Ogude, James. Ngugi’s Novels and African History: Narrating the Nation. London: Pluto Press, 1999.
Edited Books (Peer Reviewed)
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Ogude, James (ed.). Ubuntu and the Reconstitution of Community. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2019 – in press).
Ogude, James and Uni Dyer (eds.). Ubuntu and the Everyday. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2018 – in press)
Ogude, James (ed.). Ubuntu and Personhood. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2018.
Ogude, James (ed.). Chinua Achebe’s Legacy: Illuminations from Africa. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa, 2015. (ISBN: 978-0-7983-0490-0).
Ogude, James, Grace Musila and Dina Ligaga (eds.). Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012 (ISBN 978-1-59221-886-8).
Ogude, James and Joyce Nyairo (eds.). Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2007 (ISBN 1-59221-499-1).
Ogude, James, Harry Garuba, Sam Radithlahlo et al (eds). Eskia Continued: Essays on Education, African Humanism and Culture, Social Consciousness and Literary Appreciation. Johannesburg: Steinbank and Associates, 2005.
Ogude, James, Peter Thysma et al (eds.) Es'kia: Essays on Education, African Humanism and Culture, Social Consciousness and Literary Appreciation. Johannesburg: Kwela Books, 2002.
Soho Square V: A Collection of New Writing from Africa. (Co-edited with Steve Kromberg). London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
Edited Journals (Peer Reviewed)
Guest Editor (with Eileen Julien, Indiana University). Special issue: “Location, Epistemologies and Pedagogies” in Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. 2 (3-4, 2016).
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Eastern African Literatures and Cultures in Africa Today. 57. 3(Spring 2011).
Guest Editor (with Dan Ojwang), Special Issue: “Post-Election Violence in Kenya”, Africa Insight. 39. 1, June 2009.
Guest Editor, Special issue: “Cultural and Intellectual Traditions in East and South Africa” in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 43. 1 (March, 2008).
Guest Editor (with Joyce Nyairo), Special issue: “East African Popular Culture and Literature” in Africa Insight. 35. 2 (June 2005).
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Guest Editor, Special issue: “Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Making of Democracy in Kenya” in African Studies. 61. 2 (December 2002).
Guest Editor (with Dan Ojwang), Special issue: East African Literature in English Studies in Africa. 43. 1. 2000.
ARTICLES IN ACCREDITED / PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
1. James Ogude and Unifier Dyer, “Auf der Suche nach Gerechtigkeit und Versohnung angesichts der Gewalt im Nachfeld der kenianischen Wahlen 2007” (The Search for Justice and Reconciliation in the Aftermath of the 2007 Post-election Violence in Kenya). Polylog, 34 (2015): 3 – 12.
2. “Reading No Longer at Ease as a Text That Performs Local Cosmopolitanism,” in PMLA, Vol. 129, No. 2 (2014): 251-253.
3. “Whose Africa? Whose Culture? Reflections on Agency, Travelling Theory and Cultural Studies in Africa,” in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing and Culture, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (2012): 12-27
4. “The Invention of Traditional Music in the City: Exploring History and Meaning in Urban Music in Contemporary Kenya,” in Okome, Onookome and Stephanie Newell (eds). Measuring Time: Karin Barber and The Study of Everyday Africa. Research in African Literatures, 43. 4 (Winter 2012): 147-165.
5. “E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and the Revisioning of Conventional Approaches to African History” in Jahazi: Culture, Arts and Performance. 1. 4 (2011): 4 -9.
6. With Dan Ojwang, Introduction to Eastern African Literatures and Cultures in Africa Today. 57. 3 (Spring 2011): v-x.
7. 'The State as a site of eating: Literary Representation and the dialectics of ethnicity, class and, the nation state in Kenya'. Africa Insight. 39. 1 (June 2009): 5 – 21.
8. With Dan Ojwang, 'Introduction to Post-Election Violence in Kenya'. Africa Insight. 39. 1 (June 2009): 1- 4.
9. "East African Popular Culture and Literature: An introduction". Africa Insight. 35. 2 (June 2005).
10. "Popular Music, Popular Politics: `Unbwogable’ and the Idioms of Freedom", in Kenyan Popular Music”. African Affairs. 104. 415 (April 2005): 225 – 249 (with Joyce Nyairo).
11. "Popular Music and the Negotiation of Contemporary Kenyan Identity: The Example
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of Nairobi City Ensemble". Social Identities. 9. 3 (September 2003): 383 - 400 (with Joyce Nyairo).
12. "'Who can Bwogo Me?' Popular Culture in Kenya". Social Identities. 9. 3 (September 2003): 268 - 298 (with Isabel Hofmeyr and Joyce Nyairo).
13. "Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Making of Democracy in Kenya: An Introduction". African Studies. 61. 2 (2002): 205 - 206.
14. "The Vernacular Press and the Articulation of Luo Ethnic Citizenship: The Case of Achieng' Oneko's Ramogi. Current Writing. 13.2. (2001): 42 - 55.
15. "Introduction" (with Dan Ojwang), Special Issue on East African Literature. English Studies in Africa. 43. 1. 2000.
16. "Political Satire and the Trial of Mengistu’s Ethiopia in Hama Tuma’s The Socialist Witchdoctor and Other Stories." English Studies in Africa. 43. 1. 2000: 87 - 97.
17. “Writing Resistance on the Margins of Power: Rampolokeng’s Poetry and the Restoration of Community in South Africa.” Alternation: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Southern Afican Literature and Languages. 5. 2. 1998: 270 - 281.
18. “Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross, the Body and Power”. Alternation. 5. 1. 1998: 3 - 12.
19. “Imagining the Oppressed in Conditions of Marginality and Displacement: Ngugi’s Portrayal of Heroes, Workers and Peasants”. Wasafiri: Journal of Caribbean, African, Asian and Associated Literature and Film, No. 28, Autumn 1998: 3-9.
20. “Allegory and the Grotesque Image of the Body: Ngugi’s Portrayal of Depraved Characters in Devil on the Cross”. World Literature Written in English. 36. 2. 1997: 77-91.
21. "The Use of Popular Forms and Characterisation in Ngugi's Post-Colonial Narrative". English in Africa. 24. 1, 1997.
22. "Ngugi's Concept of History and the Post-Colonial Discourses in Kenya: A Reassessment". Canadian Journal of African Studies. 30. 1. 1997.
23. "Towards an Interactive Theatre for Development Communication: An African Perspective". Anderson, U. L (ed.). Forum 90. Stockholm: Ula, 1990: 74-81.
BOOK CHAPTERS / MAJOR ENTRIES (PEER REVIEWED)
1. “Oral and Popular Cultures in the African Novel” in Simon Gikandi (ed.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Voll II: The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean Since 1950. London: Oxford UP, 2016: 236 – 249.
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2. “Revisiting the African Archive: Chinua Achebe, Sol Plaatje and the Re-making of African History” in James Ogude (ed.). Chinua Achebe’s Legacy: Illuminations from Africa. Pretoria: African Institute of South Africa, 2015: 138 – 144.
3. “An Academic Journey: Reflections on a Research Trajectory in Relation to Contemporary Debates in Literature and Culture” in Mahmood Mamdani (ed.). Getting the Question Right: Interdisciplinary Explorations at Makerere University. Kampala, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR Book Series No. 1), 2013:221 – 242.
4. “Cultural Resistance,” in Patrick L. Mason (ed.) Encyclopedia of Race and Racism, Vol. 1, 2nd Ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2013: 479 -484.
5. “Location and History: Salient Issues in Teaching Ngugi to Black South African Students,” in Oliver Lovesey (ed.). Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong’o. New York, Modern Languiage Association, 2012: 315 – 337.
6. “The Emergence of Local Patronages and Intellectual traditions in Post-Independence East Africa: Nativism or a Critique of Difference and Universalism?” in Ogude, James, Grace Musila and Dina Ligaga (eds.). Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012: 4 – 21.
7. “Introduction” in Rethinking Eastern African Literary and Intellectual Landscapes. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2012: I-XXVI
8. “Ngugi wa Thiong’o.” Twentieth-Century World Fiction. Vol. III of The encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction. Vol. Ed. John Clement Ball; gen ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011: 1262 – 66.
9. “Mphahlele, Es’kia.” Twentieth-Century World Fiction. Vol. Ed., John Clement Ball; gen ed. Brian W. Shaffer. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011: 1239-41.
10. 'Cosmopolitan Nativism and the Re-invention of Tradition in the Music of Nairobi City Ensemble' in Breitinger, Eckhad and Susan Arndt, Marek Spitczok von Brisinski(eds.), Theatre, Performance and New Media. Bayreuth: Bayreuth University Press, 2007: 95 - 117.
11. “Introduction to East African Popular Culture and Literature” in Ogude,J and Joyce Nyairo (eds.) Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2007: pp 1 - 22. ISBN 1-59221-499-1
12. “The Cat that ended up eating the Homestead Chicken”: Murder, Memory and Fabulization in D. O. Misiani’s Dissident Music”, in Ogude, J and Joyce Nyairo (eds). Urban Legends, Colonial Myths: Popular Culture and Literature in East Africa. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2007: pp 173 – 202.
13. “Anti-Colonialism and Resistance: East Africa: East Africa” in David Johnson and Prempodder, A. R. (eds.). A Historical Companion to Post-Colonial Literatures in
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English. London: Edinburgh / Colomba UP, 2005: 269 – 270.
14. “Kenya African Union” in David Johnson and Prempodder, A. R. (eds.). A Historical Companion to Post-Colonial Literatures in English. Edinburgh / Colomba UP, 2005: 269 – 270.
15. “The Burden of Memory: An Introduction to Es’Kia Continued”. E’skia Continued. Johannesburg: Steinbank and Associates, 2005: pp. xxv – xxvii.
16. "The Nation and Narration: `The Truths of the Nation' and the Changing Image of Mau Mau in Kenyan Literature" in John Lonsdale and E S Atieno Odhiambo(eds). Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority and Narration. Oxford: James Currey (2002): 268 - 283.
17. "Introduction to East African Lterature" in Simon Gikandi (ed.) Encyclopedia of African Literature. London: Routledge, 2002: 158 - 163.
REVIEW ARTICLES: IN ACCREDITED JOURNALS
Review of Simon Gikandi and Evan Mwangi, The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2007) in African Studies Review (in Press, 2008).
Review of Simon Gikandi, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Oxford UP, 2001) in Canadian Journal of African Studies. 36. 2 (2002): 380 -382.
Review of Patrick Williams, Ngugi wa Thiongo (Manchester UP, 1999) in The Journal of Modern African Studies. 39. 1 (2001): 192 - 194.
Review of Ehling (Ed). Matatu 8: Critical Approaches to Anthills of the Savannah in Journal of African Studies. 53.1 (1994): 159-160.
"Truth in the Round?" review of Brenda Cooper: To Lay these Secrets Open: Evaluating African Writing in Current Writing. l. 5.1 (1993): 97-99.
Review of Daniel P. Kunene: Thomas Mofolo and the Emergence of Written Prose in Sesotho in Research in African Literatures. 24. 1 (1993): 151-153.
Review of E. Ngara: Ideology and Form in African Poetry in English Academy Review. 8 (Dec. 1992): 112-115.
REVIEWS IN POPULAR PERIODICALS
Review of Festus Iyayi: Heroes in Financial Review (6th February 1989): 53.
Review of Ngugi: Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary in New African, 173 (February 1982):
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Review of S. Plump: Somehow We Survive: A Collection of South African Poems, in Daily Nation (26th February 1982): 12.
Review of E. Muga: Robbery With Violence in Daily Nation (12th March 1982): 14.
Review of Brian Cocksey: A Sociology of Education for Africa in Daily Nation (30thJuly 1981): 15.
WORK IN PROGRESS
1. Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities (Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, New Orleans and Pot au Prince). This is an on-going project which received major funding from the National Endowment for Humanities in the USA to hold a successful Summer Institute from July 6 – 26. I am the Co-Director of the project alongside Prof Eileen Julien of Indiana University, Bloomington.
2. Ubuntu project: sponsored by the Templeton World Charity Foundation – Principal Investigator
3. Popular Culture and the making of Urban Identities.
4. Africa’s Cultural Unconcious and the Making of Modernities in Africa: Essays on theory and cultural knowledge in Africa – long term book project.
5. Long term project: Working on a biographical manuscript of Kenya's Nationalist leader, Ramogi Achieng' Oneko.
SUPERVISION OF HIGHER DEGREES COMPLETED
Doctoral Supervision Completed:
1. 2012; Edwin Nyakundi Mosoti (PhD), “A Comparative Study of Contemporary East and West African Poetry in English”. Current position: Mini-postdoctoral fellow at Wits Faculty of Humanities.
2. 2011: Christopher Werimo Ouma (PhD), “Childhood in Contemporary Nigerian Fiction”. Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow English Dept, UJ and has been appointed as a lecturer in the English dept., UCT.
3. 2008: Grace Musila(PhD). “Reconstituting the Dead Body: Decoding Narratives on Judy Ward”. Current position: Associate Professor in the English Dept, University of Stellenbosch.
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4. 2006: Austin Tamuno-Opubo George (PhD), “Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Art and Aesthetics of Non-Silence” . Current position: Senior Lecturer, International University of America, Lagos.
5. 2006: Colomba Muriungi (PhD), `Emerging Trends in Kenyan Children’s Fiction: A Study of Sasa Sema’s Lions Books”. Current position: Senior Lecturer, Kenyatta University, Kenya.
6. 2006: Maina Mutonya (PhD), "The Politics of Everyday Life in Kenyan Popular Music: 1990 - 2000." Current position: Senior researcher, The Institute of African Studies, University of Mexico.
7. 2005: Agnes Muriungi (PhD), "Romance, Love and Gender in Times of Crisis: HIV / AIDS in Kenyan and Ugandan Popular Fiction.' Current position: Senior Research Consultant UNESCO, Nairobi.
8. 2005: George Ogola (PhD), "Stirring Whispers: Fictionalising the `Popular' in the Kenyan Newspaper." Current Position; Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, Manchester University, UK.
9. 2005: Godwin W. Siundu (PhD), "Multiple Consciousness and Reconstruction of Home in the Novels of Yusuf Dawood and Moyez Vassanji." (Co-supervisor: Dan Ojwang). Current Position: Senior Lecturer, Literature Department, Nairobi University.
10. 2004: Dan O. Ojwan’g (PhD), “Representing Ethnicities: Identity Politics in East African Asian Writing”. Current position: Associate Professor, African Literature dept. University of Wits.
11. 2002: George Odera Outa (PhD), “Performing Power in an African Post-Colony: Drama and Theatre in Modern Kenya”. Current position: former Director of Information at the Prime Minister’s Office, Kenya – seconded to the post by UNDP.
12. 2002: E. L. Cloete (PhD), “Re-Telling Kenya: A Discourse Analysis of African Women’s Autobiographies”. (Co-Supervisor: Isabel Hofmeyr). Current Position: Associate Professor in English Education, School of Education, Wits.
MA SUPERVISION COMPLETED
1. 2013: Rangarirayi Mapanzure, “Land or Lands: Negotiating Rural and City Spaces in Zimbabwean Writing”.
2. 2010: Grace Werimo Waichigo, “Restoring Agency to the Woman in the cIty: An Analysis of Monica Genya’s Novels”.
3. 2007: Christopher Werimo Ouma (MA Research Project), `Journeying out of Silenced Familial Spaces in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus’.
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4. 2004: Grace Musila, "Democrazy: Imagining the Kenyan Socio-politics in Gado's Cartoons (1992 - 1999)”.
5. 2004: Dinah Adhiambo Ligaga, "`A Story Never Forgives Silence': Voicing Silences in Okey Ndibe's Arrows of Rain". Senior Lecturer, Media Studies – Wits.
6. 2002: Colomba Kaburi Muriungi (MA, University of Wits), "The Figuring of Prostitution in Kenyan Fiction by Two Women Writers".
7. 2001: Solani Ngobeni (MA, University of Wits), "The Constraints on African Language Publishing in South Africa". Immediate former Director of Publishing AISA.
8. 1999: Monde Simelela (MA, University of Wits), “The African Intellectuals and the Challenges of Decolonization in Armah’s Osiris Rising.”
9. 1997: Brian Wafawarowa (MA, University of Wits), "The Changing Narrative Elements and Political Content in La Guma's Later Novels: In the Fog of the Season's End and Time of the Butcherbird." Leading Publisher.
10. 1997: Dan Odhiambo Ojwan'g (MA, University of Wits), "The Construction of East African Indian Identities in M. G. Vassanji's The Gunny Sack and Uhuru Street."
HONOURS PROJECT SUPERVISION COMPLETED
1. 2002: Lawrence Ngoveni (Hons, Wits), "`Crawling with Time': Recurrent Themes in Drum's Fictional Stories, 1995 to 1999."
2. 2002: Lomagugu Masango (Hons, Wits), "The Short Story Genre and the Aims of English Literature Teaching set by E. V. Nkosi in Patterns of Africa: An Assesment of the Appropriateness of the Aims in Relation to the Stories and Examination Questions for Secondary Schools in Swaziland."
3. 2000: N. Maduna (Hons, Wits), "Mamela Africa Series: Assessing the Significance of Themes."
4. 2000: Mehita Iqani (Hons, Wits), "The Political Aesthetics of `The Novel' and Neocolonial Ethics in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Petals of Blood."
5. 1999: Nkosinathi Sithole (Hons, Wits), " `Immature' African Languages Literature: A Case for the Absence of Adult Readers."
6. 1997: Monde Simelane (Hons, Wits), "Ayi Kwei Armah's Portrayal of the African Intellectuals in Osiris Rising: The Triumph of Intellect and Will Over Pessimism."
7. 1989: Wanjiru Muigai (Hons, Moi University), "The Use of Satire in Achebe's A Man of the People."
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SUPERVISION IN PROGRESS (PhD)
2007 (part-time): Fred Opali, “The Influence of the Romantic Tradition on the Poetry of Okot p’Bitek and Wole Soyinka”.
EXTERNAL EXAMINATION
2012: External Examiner for IK Ticha’s PhD thesis , “ Evocations of poverty in selected novels of Meja Mwangi and Roddy Doyle: a study of Literary representation.” English Department, Stellenbosch University.
External Examiner, The Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, 2008 – 2011.
PhD External Examiner, Siphiwo Mahala, “Inside the House of Truth: The Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of Can Themba”, University of South Africa, 2018.
PhD Thesis, Antony Mukasa Mate, “Interrogating Masculinities in Selected Kenyan popular Fiction”, University of South Africa, 2017.
PhD External Examiner, Fatima Fiona Moolla, `Individualism in the Novels of Nuruddin Farah’, English Department, University of Cape Town, June 2009.
Postgraduate External Examiner, The Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, February 2009 – 2011.
MA in Literary Studies, J. L. Franca Junior, `Verses, Subverses and Subversions in Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry: The Arts of Resistance in the Works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng’, The Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town, March 2009.
PhD Examiner, Stephane Serge Ibinga, `The Representation of Women in the Works of Three South African Novelists of the Transition’, English Department, University of Stellenbosch (2006)
PhD External Examiner, George Samiselo, `Narrative Technique and Readerships in Postcolonial African Fiction – Towards Reception Theory’, English Department, University of Cape Town (2005).
PhD External Examiner, Sam Raditlhalo, `Who am I? The Construction of Identity in Twentieth-Century South African Autobiographical Writings in English’, English Department, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (2002).
Undergraduate and Postgraduate External Examiner: English Department, Vista University (1998 – 2000).
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Undergraduate and Postgraduate External Examiner: English Department, University of Venda (2001 - present).
Undergraduate and Postgraduate External Examiner: English Department, University of Transkei (2004 - 2007).
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
July 6 -27, 2016: Summer Institute on “Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities”, sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities (USA). A successful Summer Institute was held and I lead discussion in two areas on Nairobi City: Urban Arts of Experimentation and Improvisation and the Syncretic and Transnational Nature of Urban Culture.
A panellist on the session on Non-European Classics at the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) 2016 Annual Meeting on, Area Studies in a Globalising World: Past, Present, and Future, held from June 28 to July 1, 2016 and hosted by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London, the UK’s national center for Humanities research. I gave a paper on “African Writers as Translators: A Reading in layered Forms of Translation among Foundational Writers of Modern African Literature”.
Achebe Symposium: In memory of Chinua Achebe, The centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, November, 2013.
“An Academic Journey: Reflections on a Research Trajectory in Relation to Contemporary Debates in literature and Culture”. A keynote paper presented at MISR Workshop IV: literary and Cultural Studies: Contemporary Debates, June 6 -7, 2011, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda.
“Whose Africa? Whose Culture? Reflections on Agency, Travelling Theory and Cultural Studies in Africa: An Inaugural Lecture presented at the University of the Witwatersrand, 30 July, 2010.
30 September, 2010: “East African Popular Culture and Implications for the Arts in the Region”. Keynote Speaker at the Economy of the Creative Arts Conference in Mombasa, Kenya 29 September – 02 October, 2010.
4 – 7 April 2009: “Interrogating the Interface between the Global and the Local in Knowledge Production in Africa”. A paper presented at the 4th Knowledge Production Conference at Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya.
15 September 2005: `Africa's Cultural Unconscious in the Making of Modern African Culture: Revisiting the Trope of Return in African Literature'. A Paper delivered at CALS Bloke Modisane Memorial Lecture II, hosted by Centre for African Literary Studies (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal).
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8th - 10th August 2005: "`The Cat that ended up eating the homestead chicken': Murder, Memory and Fabulization in D. O. Misiani's Dissident Music". A paper presented at Fourth International Cultural Studies Workshop in Uganda with the theme, `Pushing the Frontiers of Knowledge: Millennium Reflections on the Cultural Frontiers and Conditions of Knowledge Production'.
2002: "The Nation and Narration: `The Truths of the Nation' and the Changing Image of Mau Mau in Kenyan Literature", A paper presented at the African Studies Conference, Washington, DC, December 4 – 2002.
2002: “Reclamation and Reinstatement of Authentic African Subjectivity in Kenyan Music: The Example of Cosmopolitan Nativism in the Music of Nairobi City Ensemble”, A paper presented at the ‘Versions & Subversions in African Literature Conference’, Berlin, Germany 1st- 4th May2002 (with Joyce Nyairo).
2001: “Vernacular Press and the Articulation of Luo Ethnic Citizenship: The Case of Achieng’ Oneko’s Ramogi”. A paper presented at Book in Africa Conference, Cape Town 31st March- 1st April 2001.
2000: “Vernacular Press and the Manufacturing of Nationalism in Kenya: The Case of Achieng’ Oneko’s Ramogi”. A paper presented at the African Studies Workshop, University of Michigan, USA 8th November 2000.
1998: “Narrative, Media and Nationalism in Kenya: The Case of Ramogi Achieng’ Oneko and his Newspaper”. A working paper presented at the Centre for Study of Culture, Rice University, Houston, 10th October 1998.
1998: “The Shifting of Geographical and Cultural Boundaries and Identity Formation in Soyinka’s Ake”. A paper presented at the ‘Twenty-Third Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film”, 15th –17th October 1998.
1998; “The Sociality of Literature: A Dialogic Necessity in the Production of Knowledge”. A paper presented at the International Symposium on Social Science and Globalisation in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, 14th – 18th September 1998.
1997: “The Use of Popular Culture within a Global Context; the Case of Ramogi and the Print Media”. A paper presented at the International Association of Advertisers, Kenyan Chapter, 12th – 16th October 1997.
1997: “The Body as a Site for Staging Power in a Post-Colony: Ngugi’s Narrative Discourse on the Post-Colonial State in Devil on the Cross. A paper presented at the Second CSSALL Interdisciplinary Conference.
1997: “The Politics of Language and Creative Writing: The Example of Ngugi and Achebe”. Presented at English Teachers’ Connect, 10th-12th July 1997.
1995: “Imagining the Subaltern in Conditions of Marginality and Fragmentation: The Problematic of Ngugi’s Revolutionary Vision in His Post-colonial Novels”. Presented at the
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Association of University English Teacher’s of Southern Africa 9th-13th July 1995.
1994: “Ngugi’s Concept of History and the Post-Colonial Discourses in Kenya”. Presented at History Workshop Conference on ‘Democracy: Popular Practice and Popular Culture’, 13th-15th July 1994.
1994: “New Narrative Strategies and Character Portrayal in Ngugi’s Petals of Blood, Devil on the Cross and Matigari”. Presented at ‘Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Texts and Contexts’, Penn State University, USA, 7th-9th April 1994.
1991: Participant, New Nation Writer’s Conference, University of the Witwatersarnd, December 1991.
1991: Delegate and Discussant, 6th Session on ‘Alternatives and Prospects for Africa’ Pan-African Conference of the African Association of Political Science (AAPS), Windhoek, Namibia 23rd-25th May 1991.
1990: “Towards an Interactive Theatre in Development Communication: An African Perspective”. Presented at Forum 90 Conference on Interactive Communication, Stockholm, Sweden 25th-31st August 1990.
1988: “Critical Trends in Literary Criticism in Kenya”. Presented at First CES Symposium on Culture and Education, Kikuyu Campus, University of Nairobi 21st –23rd October 1990.
MEMBERSHIP TO UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:
UNIV OF PRETORIA
Curriculum Transformation Work Stream 2016: Consultative Committee Member.
Institututional Culture Work Stream, 2016.
UNIVERSITY OF WITS
Senate Representative to the Executive Committee of Convocation 2007 – 2013
Member of The Financial Aid, Scholarships and Merit Awards Committee, 2007 - 2010
Member of the University Research Ethics Committee (Non-Medical), 2007 - 2009.
Member of the University Research Committee, 2006 – 2007
Member of the Faculty of Humanities Executive Board, 2006 - 2012.
Member of the Faculty of Humanities' Staffing and Promotions Committee 2006 - 2007.
Faculty of Humanities' representative at the Faculty of Engineering Staffing and Promotions
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Committee, 2002 - 2003.
Member of Graduate Studies Committee in the Faculty of Humanities, 2002 - 2006.
Member of University Council Disciplinary Committee, 2000 - 2002.
MEMBERSHIP TO BOARDS AND EDITORIAL BOARDS OF JOURNALS AND PROFESSIONAL BODIES
2016: Admitted as a Member of the South African Academy of Sciences (ASSAf).
Appointed by the Minister for Arts and Culture to the Council of the National English Literary Museum, 2007 - 2014.
Member of the Editorial Board of ATLANTIS: REVISTA DE LA ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE ESTUDIOS ANGLO-NORTEAMERICASNOS, 2010 – Present.
Member of the Editorial board of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2008 - Present
Member of the Editorial board of Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 2011 - Present.
Member of the Publishing Board, the Africa Institute of South Africa, 2006 - 2010.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2014 – 2017: Member of NRF Ratings Review Panel for Literature, Linguistics and Languages.
2006 – 2007: Member of NRF Thuthuka Review Panel for Literature and Linguistics.
2004 - 2007: Reviewer for NRF Rating in Literature.
February 11, 2006: Special Guest Lecture to English Teachers on `Ngugi’s Petals of Blood’ at the Independent Education Board National User Group Conference for 2006 (St. Andrew’s School for Girls).
August 2006: Invited to give a talk to Independent Schools’ Librarians on `How to Interest the Youth in African Literature’. Declined due to commitment and asked one of our Post-Doctoral Fellows, Dr Ronit Fainman to represent me.
2004: Reviewer of the Literature Programme, English Department – University of Botswana at the Invitation of the Vice-Chancellor.
2003: Reviewer for NRF Rating.
2003: Reader for the prestigious Noma Award for Publishing in Africa.
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2003: Reader for Oxford University Press (UK) for a book proposal on Post-Colonial Literature series.
2001 – Present: Occasional Reader of Research Project Proposals for National Research Foundation.
2002: Commissioned by ESKOM in the editing of collected Essays of Prof Es'kia Mphahlele entitled, Es'kia: Essays on Education, African Humanism, Culture, Social Consciousness and Literary Appreciation, Johannesburg: Kwela Books, 2002.
1998: Completed work (with Peter Rule) on `Images of Urban Cities as Reflected in African Narratives'. Project commissioned by the Global Urban Research Initiative (GURI) and funded by the Ford Foundations.
1997: Contracted by MacMillan Boleswa (PTY) Ltd as a consultant on the Novel and the Short Story genres in preparation for a book on Teaching Literature at High School.
BROADCAST / MEDIA
6 September, 2007: Participant in a Panel Discussion on `What Constitutes African Culture’, with Lerato Mbele: CNBC AFRICA.
2003: Contributed to a major supplement in the local Sunday newspapers during the Steve Biko Memorial Lectures as a tribute to Mangaliso Sobukwe entitled: 'Homecoming: The Motif of Return in the Works of Ngugi wa Thiong'o."
2000 to date: Regularly consulted by SABC to comment on African Issues and to speak about visiting African writers and their works.
1984-1985: Regular Reviewer of Books for Radio Lesotho Educational Programme.
1981-1982: Regular Reviewer of books for the Voice of Kenya ‘Books and Bookmen’ Radio programme.
AWARDS AND ACADEMIC RECOGNITION 2009 - 2013: Awarded R80, 000 per year (for five years) by the south African National Research Foundation in recognition of my Scientific Rating at Level B. B rated scholar is defined as a leading researcher in his field internationally and accorded through international peer review.
2005 - Present: Awarded the Mellon Foundation Mentoring Scholarship together with two of my PhD students by Wits University Research Office: Value R150,000. 00 per year for three years. Students receive R75, 000. 00 per year.
2004: Faculty of Humanities Research Promotion Award. Value: R 30,000. 00.
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2000 - 2002: Dr T W Kambule Growing Our Own Timber Programme (GOOT) - Mentoring Award together with mentee, Monde Simelela. Value: Associate Lectureship for mentee plus R 45, 000. 00 research funding for mentor and mentee per year.
1999 / 2000: Winner of University Council Overseas Fellowship to the University of Michigan, USA. Value: R 80, 000. 00.
1999-2000: Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Scheme (Student: Monde Simelela for PhD research). Value: R 35, 000. 00 research money for mentor plus a further R 35, 000. 00 stipend for mentee per year.
1997-1998: Mellon Postgraduate Mentoring Scheme (Student: Dan Ojwan’g – PhD research). Value: R 35, 000. 00 research money for mentor plus a further R 35, 000. 00 stipend for mentee.
1997: University Research Grant to initiate project on ‘Narrative, Media and Nationalism in Kenya’. Value: R 13, 500. 00.
1992: Mellon Foundation Scholarship Award for PhD research, University of the Witwatersrand. Value: R 35, 000. 00.
1980: M.A. in Literature Scholarship, University of Nairobi.
1979: ‘Mobil Award’, Best Literature Candidate, Kenyatta University, 1979.
REFEREES
Bheki PetersonProfessor, African LiteratureUniversity of the WitwatersrandTel: 011-717-4140E-mail: [email protected]
D. A. MasoloProfessor of PhilosophyDepartment of Philosophy
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310 Humanities BuildingUniversity of LouisvilleLouisville, KY 40292Tel: (502)852-0456Email: [email protected]
Eileen JulienDirector, Institute for Advanced StudyProfessor Comparative Literature, French & Italian, African StudiesIndiana University, BH 914Bloomington, IN 47405USATel; +1 812-219-7635 / 812-855-9179E-mail: [email protected]
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