Kenya

Elizabeth Burns Dyer

Center for African Studies

Dr. Dyer specializes in African history, performing arts and theater history. She received her PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. During her research on the political history of theater in Kenya, she collaborated with a number of Kenyan playwrights and theater groups. Her work offers new insights into the role of theatrical productions as political critique.

Leonardo Arriola

Associate Professor and Political Science Director, Associate Dean
Political Science, Center for African Studies, College of Letters and Sciences

Leonardo Arriola studies ethnic politics, party systems, and political economy in Africa. His current research focuses on the formation of multiethnic electoral coalitions among opposition parties in Africa. He has conducted field research in Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Senegal. He has previously been a Fulbright scholar at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University, a visiting researcher at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and a predoctoral fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He earned a...

Ezera Research for African Students

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ONLY UC BERKELEY PH.D. STUDENTS ARE ELIGIBLE

Emeka Kalu Ezera, Graduate Student Instructor and doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley, was killed tragically, July 12, 1990 in an automobile accident while traveling in Nigeria.

Born on April 30, 1959, Emeka was the first of four sons of Professor Kalu and Mrs.Onuma Ezera, who came...

Sahara Farah Abdi

Fellowship Recipient, Alumna
Mathematics

Situated Brainstorming: Field Site Scoping in East Africa

February 22, 2017

Christine Wilkinson with an eagle

This past summer, I was able to use the generous support of a Rocca Pre-Dissertation Fellowship in order to explore potential field sites, network with communities and wildlife managers, and...

Vivian Omondi

Information Management and Systems

Elly Wanyonyi

City and Regional Planning