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Martha Kakooza

rebsl — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:49:17 +0000

Martha Kakooza is a scholar-activist, storyteller, and PhD candidate in Higher Education whose work lives at the intersection of African diasporic belonging, critical pedagogy, and institutional transformation. Her research centers the lived experiences of Black African immigrant students navigating predominantly white academic spaces, with a focus on how they forge identity, community, and meaning across borders.

When she's not writing about spatial politics and epistemic justice, Martha is building vibrant support networks through initiatives like the Black Women Collaborative (BWC) and the Black Male Initiative (BMI). She believes in education as a site of both memory and imagination, and that laughter, mentorship, and resistance are sacred practices.

Keywords: belonging, spatial relations, dialogical narrative research, Ubuntu

Mohamed Sesay

rebsl — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:30:22 +0000

Mohamed Sesay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and Coordinator of the African Studies program at 91��ɫ. His research focuses on the rule of law, legal pluralism, traditional authorities, customary justice, transitional justice, international criminal justice, and postconflict peacebuilding in sub-Saharan Africa. His works have appeared in many peer-reviewed journals. He is the author of Domination through Law: Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa, winner of the International Studies Association's Lee Ann Fujii Book Award (2021) and Honorable Mention for the Global Development Studies Book Award (2022), and 91��ɫ's Exceptional Book Prize (2023).

Keywords: Peacebuilding, Justice, Conflict resolution, Land right, Rule of law, Ubuntu, Africa