Voicing African Voices

Author

Leah Jerop Komen

Leah Jerop Komen is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Deputy Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies at Daystar University, Kenya. She holds a PhD in New Media and Development from University of East London, UK. Dr. Komen is published in peer-reviewed journals and is involved in teaching and supervision of postgraduate students in Kenya and beyond. She is also an external examiner in several African Universities. Her research interests include: the domestication of mobile communication technologies in Africa and how human-technology and context interrelationships form part of social assemblages that intersect for Development.

Anthropology Development Studies Media & Communication Studies Social Sciences

Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Keny

by Leah Jerop Komen

In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes…

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Professor Tinyiko Maluleke, Theologian, leading academic, Vice Chancellor and Principal, Tshwane University of Technology. on Uitlanders in Stellenbosch: Identities, English, and Learning to Live Together
Achirri Ismael, (PhD) Assistant Professor of Social Sciences and Policy Studies, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism
Viviane Koua, (PhD) Department of World Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Auburn University, Auburn AL. USA on Centres and Peripheries in Literatures: Interrogating Hegemonic Canonism