Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 18, 1998 - Atieno Odhiambo (pronounced ah-tee-en-o o-dee-am-bo), one of Africa's leading historians, will present a public lecture, "Ethnicity and Democracy in Kenya," at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 25 in the Nebraska Union.
Odhiambo is a Kenyan citizen and a professor of African history at Rice University. He also has taught at the University of Nairobi, the University of Witwatersrand, Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University. He has written several books, including "Burying S.M.: The Politics of Knowledge and the Sociology of Power in Africa" (1992) and "Siaya: Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape" (1989) - both co-authored with D. W. Cohen - and most recently "Jaramogi: The Political Biography of Oginga Odinga, 1911-1994" (1998).
His talk is sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the
Nebraska Program in Human Rights and Human Diversity in the
College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska. This
integrated instructional and research initiative addresses the
intersection of human rights research and social science and
humanities research on the underlying cultural and socio-
political dynamics that give rise to human rights issues.
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