Simon Gikandi
James Ogude
Ndirangu Wachanga
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ
Mumbi wa Ngũgĩ
Ndũcũ wa Ngũgĩ
Nyambura Sallinen
Wangũi wa Goro
Karen Lawrence
Colette LaBouff
Angela Davis
Adriana Johnson
Mukul Kumar
Carla Wilson
Paa Kwesi-Heto
Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Chimee Adịọha
Baba Badji
Jaye Austin Williams
Cilas Kemedjio
Anindo Marshall
Kwame Rĩgĩĩ
Nii Armah Sowah
Sela Adjei
Victor Nani Agbeli
Mumbi Ngũgĩ
Fred Moten
Jimmy Centeno
Idza Luhumyo
Bwesigye Bwa-Mwesigire
Rah Hite
Tyrus Miller
Jane O. Newman
Jerry Lee
Ketu Katrak
Gabriele Schwab
David Theo Goldberg
Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Cecelia Lynch
S. Ama Wray
Munyao Kilolo
Glaydah Namukasa
Joel Veenstra










Mukul Kumar





Mukul Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at UC Irvine and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board of the UCI Labor Center. As a geographer with a background in labor organizing, his research and teaching focuses on the political economy of fossil fuels within the context of neoliberalism and authoritarianism in the US and Asia Pacific. Prior to completing his PhD at UC Berkeley, he served as the first student volunteer and intern at the International Center for Writing and Translation. Kumar's current research investigates the limits and possibilities of divesting from fossil fuels in ways that repair historical injustices. His forthcoming book project, Fossil Fuel Divestment as Method, illustrates how and why movements to divest from fossil fuels must not be severed from land-based struggles for Indigenous sovereignty and environmental justice. Kumar’s research has been featured in a variety of scholarly as well as popular forums, including BBC Radio 4, Antipode, Climate and Development, Economic and Political Weekly, and the Centre Tricontinental.





The Celebration of the Life and Work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o is made possible through the support of the:

UCI Office of the Chancellor
Dean of the School of the Arts
Dean of the School of Humanities
Dean of the School of Social Sciences
Humanities Center
International Center for Writing and Translation
UCI Interdisciplinary Center for the Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies
Office of Inclusive Excellence
UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor's Arts & Culture Initiative
Alex Glasser The Center for the Power of Music and Social Change
Department of Anthropology
Department of Comparative Literature
Department of Drama
Department of English
Department of Dance

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Organized by:

Adriana Johnson
Jane O. Newman
Gabriele Schwab
Ketu Katrak
Jerry Lee
Cecelia Lynch
S. Ama Wray