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Dr Godwin R. Murunga PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 11 September 2009 05:42
Lecturer, Department of History, Archaeology and Political Studies, Kenyatta University 

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Godwin R. Murunga teaches in the Department of History, Archaeology and Political Studies at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in History from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA; an MA and BA from Kenyatta University, Nairobi. He is the co-editor of Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy (Dakar and London: CODESRIA in association with Zed Books, 2007); Africa Development, vol. 33, no. 1,2008 and editor of collection essays by Issa G. Shivji titled Where is Uhuru? Reflections on the Struggle for Democracy in Africa (Oxford: Fahamu Books, 2009). 

He has several book chapters and articles in internationally refereed journals including Africa Development, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, African and Asian Studies and Journal of Third World Studies, among others. His most recent article titled ‘Refugees at Home? Coping with Somalia Conflict in Nairobi, Kenya’ appears in the collection on African Studies in Geography from Below published in the CODESRIA Book Series (Dakar, 2009). Murunga is the convener of the Gender Roundtable Series at Kenyatta University. He is a recipient of several research grants from the Ford Foundation, Heinrich Böll Foundation and CODESRIA. He was a visiting research fellow at the African Studies Centre of Oxford University in 2008 and at the Nordic Africa Institutes African Guest Researchers Fellowship in 2009. He is a member of the CODESRIA executive Committee representing the Eastern African region. His research interests include history of urbanisation, politics of knowledge production, democratisation processes in Africa and masculinities in Africa. Currently, he is working on a book project on Kenya: Democracy on Trial under contract from Zed Books.