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Here are examples of my scholarship and publications. Click here for a link to my books on Amazon.
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2009 Coffman, Jennifer E.; Broch-Due, Vigdis; Little, Peter; Ntarangwi, Mwenda; Prazak, Miroslava; and Shipton, Parker. “Insights into Kenya's 2007 Post-election Violence.” In Beliefs and Values: Understanding the Global Implications of Human Nature. Vol. 1, No. 1.
2009 “Sexuality and the Culture of Silence in the Face of HIV/AIDS in East Africa: A Popular Culture Approach.” In Strong Women, Dangerous Times: Gender and HIV/AIDS in Africa. Eds. Ezekiel Kalipeni, Karen C. Flynn, and Cynthia Pope. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
2010 "African Hip Hop and the Politics of Change in an Era of Rapid Globalization" History Compass Vol. 8(12):1316-1327
2012 "Introduction: Parents’ Involvement in Children’s Lives in Africa” Africa Development, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, 2012, pp. 1 – 18. (https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ad/issue/view/9969)
2012 “Amending Eurocentric Narratives of African History in the US Classroom: A Popular Culture Approach.” In Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success, co-authored with Fred N. Waweru, ed. Ed Janak and Denni Blum. Lexington Books.
2012 “Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa.” In Generation X Gies Global: Mapping Youth Culture in Motion, ed. Christine Henseler. Routledge. Go here for more details and click on East Africa on the left panel for an excerpt of my chapter.
2015 Carpenter, Joel and Mwenda Ntarangwi, “Christian Higher Education: Global Challenges, Local Practices,” in Special Issue of Christian Higher Education Volume 14(1), pp. 1–3, 2015 edited by Joel Carpenter and Mwenda Ntarangwi.
2015 Youth, Music, and Peace Building. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Vol 25. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 842–848.
2017 “Popular Music and the Challenges of Freedom of Expression in Kenya,” Jahazi Vol. 6, Issue 1: 49-52. (https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/popular-music-and-challenges-freedom-expression-kenya)
2018 “Afterword” in Anthropology, Chua, Liana and Nayanika Mathur, eds., Who are ‘We’?: Reimagining Alterity and Affinity. Oxford: Berghahn Books. Pp. 233-240
2019 “African Participation in, and Perspectives on, the Politics of Knowledge Production in Africanist Anthropology,” in Grinker, Lubkemann, Steiner, and Gonçalves, eds. A Companion to the Anthropology of Africa. Wiley-Blackwell Companion series. Pp. 439-458.
2020 “Straddling Two Worlds: Christian Leaders’ Responses to Witchcraft Accusations in DRC,” On Knowing Humanity Journal 4(1). (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338960976_21_Straddling_Two_Worlds_Christian_Leaders'_Responses_to_Witchcraft_Accusations_in_DRC)
2021 "Listening to Disrupt Ethnographic Disruptions," HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11 (1): 273–280 (https://www.academia.edu/49385380/Listening_to_disrupt_ethnographic_representations)
2010
See panel celebrating 10 years since this book was published https://youtu.be/PuRrQe-2DCM
"Uhakiki wa Kazi Za Fasihi" addresses some of the basic areas of literary criticism and provides some examples of ways of thinking about going about such work within academia. You can access it here Uhakiki wa Kazi Za Fasihi
2003
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Jesus and Ubuntu: Exploring the Social Impact of Christianity in Africa
As African Christianity takes a commanding position in global Christianity due to its exponential growth in the last few decades, questions abound of the relationship such growth has with continued decline in most development indicators in the continent. Jesus and Ubuntu assesses the social role played by Christianity in contemporary Africa amid the growing awareness of Africa s social, economic, and political challenges.
East African Hip Hop: Youth Culture and Globalization
In this book, I analyze how young hip hop artists in the East African nations of Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania showcase the opportunities and challenges brought by the globalization of music. Combining local popular music traditions with American and Jamaican styles of rap, East African hip hop culture reflects the difficulty of creating commercially accessible music while honoring tradition and East African culture. I pay special attention to growing cross-border exchanges within East African hip hop, collaborations in recording music and performances, and themes and messages that transcend local geographic boundaries.
The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop and Christianity in Kenya
To some, Christianity and hip hop seem antithetical. Not so in Kenya. There, the music of Julius Owino, aka Juliani, blends faith and beats into a potent hip hop gospel aimed at a youth culture hungry for answers spiritual, material, and otherwise. I explore the Kenyan hip hop scene through the lens of Juliani's life and career. A born-again Christian, Juliani produces work highlighting the tensions between hip hop's forceful self-expression and a pious approach to public life, even while contesting the basic presumptions of both. In The Street Is My Pulpit , I forge an uncommon collaboration with his subject that offers insights into Juliani's art and goals even as I explore my own religious experience and subjective identity as an ethnographer. What emerges is an original contribution to the scholarship on hip hop's global impact and a passionate study of the music's role in shaping new ways of being Christian in Africa.
Here is an interview I did with Dr. George-Paul Meiu on "listening" in March of 2023
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