Kenya

Dr. Page is the Founder and Director, PRAXIS Consulting, Norway 2021 - present

She is at UC Berkeley to continue her research on "Professional networks and the politics of aid: How donor priorities and methods shape Norwegian Development Cooperation in Africa."

Dr. Page has been a Senior international development consultant and team leader with 25 years' experience providing strategic advisory, evaluation, and learning support to bilateral and multilateral donors, governments, UN agencies, and international NGOs. Her work experience covers many African countries such...

Peter Narh is an Environmental Social Scientist at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. He researches African land and natural resources conservation and governance. Currently, his research focus on social connections with environmental resource systems in Ghana and Kenya. He holds a PhD in Development Studies (Environmental governance option) from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Peter's appointment is January 20 - June 20, 2026.

Receiving the Rocca Dissertation Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year provided significant support for the research and writing of my dissertation, currently titled “Negotiating Contemporary China-Kenya Relations through Sonic Infrastructures and Musical Imaginaries.” Based on fieldwork research in Nairobi, Kenya, my project explores how China and Kenya’s engagements are performed, developed, and imagined through sonic infrastructures that actively
produce, leverage, and circulate music between the two countries. Challenging simplistic “monster or messiah” narratives often used to...