• • Ph.D., UCLA
  • M.A., University of Nairobi, Kenya
  • B.A., University of Nairobi, Kenya

African, African diaspora literatures and performance, African studies, postcolonial and transnational studies.

Articles in refereed journals

• “The mouth that ate itself”: Reflections on Joseph Kamaru, oral artist extraordinaire.” Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 58.1 (2021), 10-17. doi:10.17159/tl.v58i1.10413
• “Discovering/rediscovering “home” through Ngũgĩ’s early novels.” Journal of the African Literature Association, 13(1), 112-130.
• “Mythical Hero or Tragic Failure? An Interrogation of the Jomo Kenyatta “Black People’s Moses” Mystique in Two Kenyan Patriographies.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 30.2 (2018): 192- 207. Online.
• “Popular Songs and Resistance: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Maitu Njugĩra.” Popular Music and Society. 40.1 (2017): 22-36. Online (Also published as a hard copy collection of essays, Routledge 2018).
• “Bloodhounds at the Gate: Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Melancholia in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wartime Memoirs.” Research in African Literatures 47.4 (2016): 91-111.Print.

Chapters in edited collections

• “The Shapeshifter in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Migrant Writing.” Eds. Lokangaka Losambe & Tanure Ojaide. The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature. New York: Routledge; 2024. 17-32.
• ‘“Who do you think you are, Woman?’ Wangari Maathai answers in Unbowed.” Eds. Tanure Ojaide, Joyce Ashuntantang. Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses in African Literature. New York: Routledge, 2020. 195-205.
• “Emergency-era Trauma in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat.” Eds. C. Kebaya, C. Muriungi, & J. K. S. Makokha. Cultural Archives of Atrocity. London: Routledge, 2019. 210-225
• “Autobiographical Prototypes in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Early Fiction and Drama.” Eds. Simon Gikandi & Ndirangu Wachanga. Ngũgĩ: Reflections on his Life of Writing. Suffolk: James Currey, 2018.
• “‘Reverse Appropriations’ and Transplantation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah.” A Companion to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ed. Ernest Emenyonu. London: James Currey, 2017. 199-211. Print.