I am a PhD student in African History. My research focusses on East Africa and the British empire exploring the establishment and consolidation of imperial control in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I study how British rule in East Africa developed within contexts of the abolition of slavery, conquest and violence, land dispossession, and other techniques of colonial control. I am also interested in the later rise of African nationalist politics in a global perspective and how anticolonial activists in Africa and its diaspora marshalled these histories of imperial rule to develop critiques of empire and pursue self-determination. 

I received a BA in International Relations from the United States International University-Africa (Nairobi, KE), and my MA in African Studies and Research from Howard University.