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Tom Michael Mboya presently serves as the Coordinator of the Moi University International Office and also as the Academic Coordinator of the Moi University Africa Multiple Research Centre. He mainly researches the popular music of Kenya, which he uses as a lens through which to perceive the complex social and political movements and relationships in the African postcolony from below. An important second area of his research is East African Literature in English. Mboya has held Visiting Faculty positions at The University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and University of Bayreuth, Germany. |
Tom Michael Mboya
Professor of African Literatures and Cultures
School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Literature, Linguistics, Foreign Languages and Film Studies
Moi University
Recent Publications
, 2024. From ‘The World as a Place’to ‘Cultures of (Un) homing in a Contemporary World’. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 10, p.153–165.
, 2024. ‘Back Home in the States’: The African’s Quest for Home in Postcolonial Africa in Chains of Junkdom by Okiya Omtata Okoiti. Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 10, p.225–240.
, 2021. Guitar Music and Cultural Identity in Kenya: Benga and Luo Identity, c. 1955 to c. 1980. Stichproben (19928610).
, 2020. Music, Identity and History: Reading Kalenjin Popular/Traditional Music. In Moi University African Cluster Centre Workshop. 29 October. Sirikwa Hotel, Eldoret.
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