Research Interests:

• Ethnicity in/and the African nation–state/ state–nation
• African Postcoloniality
• African popular culture
• Art and history

Recent Major Research Projects:

• Sounding East Africa: Music, Technology and Ideology funded by the Perivoli Africa Research Centre at the University of Bristol (Principal Investigator: James Ogude, University of Pretoria);
• Beyond the Digital Return: New Heritage/s, Sustainability, and the Decolonisation of Music Archives in South Africa, Kenya, and Ghana funded by the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the University of Bayreuth (Principal Investigators: Tom Michael Mboya, Moi University; Markus Cooster, University of Bayreuth; Lee Watkins, Rhodes University).