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SpeakerProf Ambreena Manji (School of Law & Politics, Cardiff University)
Speaker's BiographyProf Manji has been Professor of Land Law and Development at Cardiff since 2014. Before that, she was seconded to Nairobi as the Director of the British Academy's British Institute in Eastern Africa between 2010-2014. In 2023, she was appointed Cardiff University's Dean of International for Africa.
Her research is in African Law and Society. It is strongly interdisciplinary and includes work on law in African literature, African history, legal education, and women and the law. She has a strong research and professional interest in land law and development. Her most recent book is The Struggle for Land and Justice in Kenya (James Currey/Boydell & Brewer 2020). It appeared in Eastern and Southern African paperback published by Vita Books in 2021. The book is a finalist for the US African Studies Association Best Book prize 2021: the reviewers said of the book that it 'is innovative and pathbreaking both in its multi-disciplinary examination of Kenya's land issue and its ultimate, experimental conclusions.' In 2023, it was runner up for the African Studies Assocation of Africa's Pius Adesanmi Memorial Prize for Excellence in African Writing.
At Cardiff, she co-founded the Law and Global Justice Centre. With funding from the British Academy, the Centre launched its Socio-Legal Journals Global South Initiative in 2018, with writing workshops for early-career legal scholars hosted by our partner Law Schools in Recife, Bangalore, Accra and Nairobi attended by editors from five of the UK’s leading law journals.
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The Centre for Law and Global Justice set up the Law School’s path-breaking Global Justice Pro Bono programme in 2015, working on legal cases in Tanzania and Kenya and providing their students with the opportunity of fully funded law placements with litigators and the judiciary in Nairobi and Delhi. The Centre also hosts the African Feminist Judgments project which I lead with Sibongile Ndashe (ISLA, Johannesburg) and Sharifah Sekalala (Warwick Law School).
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Location: AWEN Centre, Singleton Campus, Other
Dear all,
We are delighted to invite you to a CARN/CARI collaboration event, The Emancipatory Politics of Indigenous People in Kenya by Prof Ambreena Manji (School of Law & Politics, Cardiff University), who is Dean of International for Africa at Cardiff University and was member of Area Studies sub-panel for REF 2021.
This event will take place on 22 May at 2 pm, AWEN Centre. There will be coffee/tea and cake available starting from 1:30 pm.
Details of Prof Manji’s talk and her bio can be seen attached.
Best Wishes,
Caner Sayan and Kirsti Bohata
Contact: Aryan Jandaghi (Email: aryan.jandaghi@swansea.ac.uk)
Event created by: e.j.hoskins