Chalo Waya
Chalo ũa Waya is a PhD student in the Cambridge CAPONEU research team, supervised by Professor Sarah Colvin. He is working on a doctoral thesis provisionally entitled, 'Pluralising globality: critical Afropolitanism as epistemic self-assertion'. His research is a comparative study on Sharon Dodua Otoo's Adas Raum, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah, Natasha Brown's Assembly, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's Esse Cabelo, and Fatou Diome's Le ventre de l'Atlantique. Among other things, the study aims to produce a theoretical framework that will combine the relatively new praxes of critical Afropolitanism and epistemic justice.
His joint honours bachelor’s degree, issued by the University of Nairobi, is in politics and French with a minor in Literature in English. He holds a master’s degree in Kiswahili—also from the University of Nairobi. At the Sorbonne in Paris, Chalo earned a master’s degree in French. He then earned a terminal research master’s degree in journalism from Canada’s oldest and best journalism programme—at Carleton University. Chalo then earned an MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures from the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a journalist and editor for the BBC and China Media Group. He has also taught English, French and Kiswahili in five continents and seven countries.
Affiliation
University of Cambridge
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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge CB3 9DA
United Kingdom