Public Lecture by Professor Shadrack Wanjala Nasong'o

Prof. Wanjala S. Nasong’o is a Professor of International Studies and Chair of the Department of International Studies at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Public and International Affairs from Northeastern University, Boston and M.A. in International Relations and B.A. in Political Science and Linguistics from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Prof. Nasong’o has previously taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Kenyatta University; and the University of Nairobi. In addition to numerous peer reviewed chapters and articles in refereed journals, Prof. Nasong’o is author of Contending Political Paradigms in Africa: Rationality and the Politics of Democratization in Kenya and Zambia (New York: Routledge, 2005); The Human Rights Sector in Kenya: Key Issues and Challenges (Nairobi: Kenya Human Rights Institute, 2009); editor of The African Search for Stable forms of Statehood in Africa (New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008); and coeditor of Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (London: Zed Books & Dakar: CODESRIA, 2007); and Regime Change and Succession Politics in Africa (New York: Routledge, 2013).