Social sciences and humanities are as important as sciences. Understanding how society functions is as important as scientific inventions. Thus,…
Duncan Omanga
Duncan Omanga is a program officer for the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs. Before joining the Council in 2019, Omanga was the Head of the Department of Publishing and Media Studies, Moi University (Kenya) and a senior lecturer of Media Studies there. Omanga was a British Academy visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge until February 2019 and is also a 2014 APN (Africa Peacebuilding Network-SSRC) alumnus. He has previously held one of the two 2015/6 African Visiting Fellowships (Centre for African Studies) at the University of Cambridge. Omanga was the nominee for the 2017 Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture (ASAUK), SOAS, a lecture that was based on his research on "Social Media, Political Devolution and Public Participation in Kenya." Omanga’s research is at the intersection of digitality, security, and democracy in East Africa and his latest research grant was a Facebook-funded research project on "Human Rights, Policing and Digital Landscapes" in Nairobi. Omanga is an alumnus of the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
Latest posts
Sub-Saharan Africa Will Most Likely Ride Out the Covid-19 Storm
May 14, 2020
Amid the ongoing Covid-19 carnage, there are fears that Africa will be blown apart by the virus. World Health Organization…
Decolonization, Decoloniality, and the Future of African Studies: A Conversation with Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
January 30, 2020
As discussions of decolonization of academia grow, Duncan Omanga, program officer for both the African Peacebuilding Network and Next Generation…
Not Yet Uhuru: Is This the Making of Kenya’s First One-Term President?
August 4, 2017
In his 2017 New Year message, President Uhuru Kenyatta expressed confidence at being reelected. Indeed, polls showed him likely to…
Special Issue: Kenya’s 2017 Presidential Elections
August 4, 2017
Kenyans go to the polls on August 8, 2017. President Uhuru Kenyatta of the ruling Jubilee Party is up against…