Centre of African Studies

Dr Katherine Luongo studies legal systems in colonial and contemporary Africa, global legal regimes, and human rights. She is the author of Witchcraft and Colonial Rule in Kenya, 1900-1955 (Cambridge University Press, 2011). With Matthew Carotenuto, she is the author of Obama and Kenya: Contested Histories of Politics and Belonging (Ohio University Press, 2016), the first scholarly work to examine the history of Kenya through the experiences of the Obama family.

Prince Guma is an interdisciplinary social and political scientist whose work sits at the intersection of critical urban studies, infrastructure studies, and technology studies, with a focus on development, political economy, and social justice. He earned his PhD in Human Geography and Spatial Planning from Utrecht University in 2021, where his research explored the diffusion and adoption of new plans, ideas, and technologies in urban and infrastructure domains.

Devon E. A. Curtis is the Director of the MPhil in African Studies. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Her main research interests and publications deal with power-sharing and governance arrangements following conflict, UN peacebuilding, non-state armed movements in Africa, and critical perspectives on conflict, peacebuilding, and development.