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The Nobel Prizes, Racism and the Economy of Prestige

  • Wandia Njoya
    Wandia Njoya Daystar University Kenya https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7489-7461 (unauthenticated)
    Wandia Njoya is an associate professor of literature and former head of the Department of Language and Performing Arts at Daystar University in Kenya. She began her academic career as a scholar of African literature in French, but developed an interest in education. She...
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  • Wandia Njoya, Daystar University Kenya

    Wandia Njoya is an associate professor of literature and former head of the Department of Language and Performing Arts at Daystar University in Kenya. She began her academic career as a scholar of African literature in French, but developed an interest in education.

    She initially published her pieces on education on her blog, which went on to win three consecutive annual awards for the best blog on social issues and active citizenship. In addition to her work on popular media, she has published peer reviewed journal articles and academic book chapters on the intersection between arts, humanities, religion and education policy. In April 2022, she was a co-convener of the Education Alibi conference held at the University of Bayreuth.

    Prof Wandia is interested in the anthropology of education policy and how different education policies and lived experience of education professionals in Kenya. She is currently doing research for a monograph on the education experience in post-independent Kenya.

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