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African Cluster Centre of Excellence in African Studies

African Cluster Centre of Excellence in African Studies

 

The Moi University African Cluster Centre (Moi–ACC) is housed in the Moi University School of Arts and Social Sciences (SASS) whose overriding objectives are to offer interdisciplinary teaching and research in the broad field of African studies and to act as the center where all other Africa–focused scholarship in Moi University coalesce. Within the context of these objectives, and building on the very strong tradition of exploring and interrogating diverse ways of knowing Africa that has developed in SASS in the three and a half decades of its existence, the Moi–ACC is envisioned as a hub of outstanding inter–, multi– and transdiciplinary research and conversations that will contribute to the greater understanding of Africa in ways that enable the addressing of significant issues affecting the continent. The centre director is Prof. Peter Simatei (African Diasporas), assisted by the Academic Coordinator Prof. Tom Mboya, an Associate Professor of Literature. Some of the principal investigators are Prof. Eunice Kamaara (Africam Religion and Ethics) Dr. Hassan Nzovu (Islamic studies), Prof. CJ Odhiambo, (Intervention Drama), Prof. Ann Nangulu (African History) Others include Dr. Justin Sikuku (Linguistics), Dan Omanga (Media), Dr. Henry Ligulu (Law) and Prof. Paul Omondi (Geography).

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Recent Submissions

  • Digital Research Environment (DRE) : 
    Mutai, Solomon (Moi University, 2022-12)
    Why Manage Research data? Africamultiple Cluster of Excellence & DRE Current situation Why Dspace Future plans
  • The typology of actual clauses in Eastern Bantu 
    Sikuku, Justine Mukhwana; Mulalu, Joseph Wanyonyi; Safir, Ken (2023)
    This article reports on the existence of actual clause morphology and interpretation in selected Bantu languages. Essentially, we treat the actual clause as an embedded assertion whereby the utterer is committed not only ...
  • Aesthetics of Participation in Film for Community Development: 
    Odhiambo, Christopher J. (Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature, 2023-06-23)
    This article explores how film as a mode of intervention in community development has deliberately integrated the aesthetics and poetics of participation. To demonstrate how this is made possible, a film by Sponsored Art ...
  • East African Asian Writing and the Emergence of a Diasporic Aesthetic 
    Simatei, Peter (Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature, 2023-06-23)
    This article traces the emergence of East African Asian writings and their struggle with questions of national belonging and diaspora. It argues that although this emergence was part and parcel of the literary developments ...