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2024 Hopper Lecture | “Restless Earth: Money, Digital Technology and Political Entropy Around the World” with Nanjala Nyabola

October 10 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

University of Guelph Institute of Development Studies 2024 Hopper Lecture

Restless Earth: Money, Digital Technology and Political Entropy Around the World | with Nanjala Nyabola

Thu, October 10, 2024 | 4:00pm – 6:00pm
William Doo Auditorium, University of Toronto, 45 Willcocks Street

The Women and Gender Studies Institute and the African Studies Centre at the University of Toronto are hosting Kenyan writer, political analyst, and activist Nanjala Nyabola for the 2024 Hopper Lecture series.

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Speaker Bio

Nanjala Nyabola

Nanjala Nyabola is an independent writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Her work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She holds a BA in African Studies and Political Science from the University of Birmingham, an MSc in African Studies and an MSc in Forced Migration, both from the University of Oxford, as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. She has held numerous research associate positions including with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world. She has been published in several academic journals including the African Security Review and the Women’s Studies Quarterly, and contributed to numerous edited collections. Nanjala also writes commentary for publications like The Nation, Al Jazeera, The Boston Review and others. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya (Zed Books, 2018) and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move (Hurst Books, 2020).

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Date:
October 10
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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Venue

William Doo Auditorium
45 Willcocks Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada
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