In 1992 Dr Mary Kinyanjui, a Senior Research Fellow at IDS, returned to Kenya after obtaining her PhD in Geography from Cambridge University.
The scholar’s experiences in two Kenyan universities will be the gist of her seminar, “Towards an African Economic Geography: Lesson Learned from Development Studies Research.”
“If you had been given a choice of which kind of political system to be born into, would you choose authoritarianism or democracy?”
This is the question that Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the University of Birmingham, posed during a packed seminar hosted by the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, on November 14, 2019.
The African Research Universities Alliance (ARUA), in partnership with the University of Nairobi, will host an international conference and workshops on 18-20 November 2019 under the theme “Africa and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Defining a Role for Research Universities.”
Prof Nic Cheeseman will present a seminar on the history of authoritarian rule in Africa during the IDS Seminar series on November 14, 2019. The seminar, “Does Authoritarianism or Democracy Work better for development in Africa?” will explore authoritarian regimes that have existed on the continent, including one-party states, military rule, and personal dictatorships.
The Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, will host its next bi-monthly seminar on November 30, 2019 at the University of Nairobi Towers, from 2pm.
