Eunice Sahle
Kenyan economist and political scientist
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Eunice Njeri Sahle[1] is a Kenyan economist and political scientist. Specializing in the economic and political development of Africa, she has published several edited volumes, including The Legacies of Julius Nyerere (2002), and she is a 2016 Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences. She is a professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chaired their Department of African and Afro-American Studies (2012-2016, 2017-2021).
- Economist
- political scientist
Eunice Sahle | |
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| Occupations |
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| Awards | Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences (2016) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Democratisation in Malawi : state, economic structure and neo-liberal hegemony (2001) |
| Colin Leys | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | African studies |
| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Biography
Sahle was born to James K. Mugo, a civil servant based in Nairobi, and his wife Esther.[2][3] her Anglican family was well-off and "had the means to send their six children to boarding schools".[3] She was inspired by her mother's story about the first Black Kenyan student educated at Limuru Girls' School; Sahle later met that student while in college.[3] She attended the University of Toronto, where she got a BA in Political Science and International Development and MA in Political Science, and Queen's University at Kingston, where she got a PhD in Political Studies.[4] Her doctoral dissertation Democratisation in Malawi: State, Economic Structure and Neo-Liberal Hegemony was supervised by Colin Leys.[2]
Sahle became part of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, becoming associate professor in their Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies.[3] On January 1, 2012, she became chair of that department after Julius Nyang'oro resigned amidst the University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal.[5] She later served until 2016, as well as another term from 2017 to 2021.[4] She is also the chair of UNC Chapel Hill's African Studies Center.[4]
Sahle specializes in the economic and political development of Africa.[3] In 2002, she and David McDonald co-edited The Legacies of Julius Nyerere, a volume of conference papers on the eponymous Tanzanian statesman.[1] In 2004, she and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o co-authored a Diogenes article about Hegelianism in Chinua Achebe's work.[6] In 2010, she published World Orders, Development and Transformation, a book on the post-World War II international order.[7] She later edited three volumes on African studies: Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa (2015); Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Politics in Africa (2017); and Human Rights in Africa: Contemporary Debates and Struggles (2019).[8][9][10]
Sahle was elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2016.[11] She is Anglican, and makes daily visits to Chapel of the Cross, which she said helped "Chapel Hill [start] feeling like home".[3]
Bibliography
- (ed. with David A. McDonald) The Legacies of Julius Nyerere (2002)[1][12]
- World Orders, Development and Transformation (2010)
- (ed.) Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa (2015)
- (ed.) Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Politics in Africa (2017)
- (ed.) Human Rights in Africa: Contemporary Debates and Struggles (2019)
