Prof. Christopher Odhiambo has been confirmed as a Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Annual Conference on the Role of Literature in a Global World of the Research Week 2020. The theme of the conference is “Eastern Africa Literature in the 21st Century: Achievements, Challenges, Perspectives”.
Christopher Odhiambo Joseph is a Professor of Literature and Applied Drama at Moi University’s Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Studies. Has published widely in the fields of Literature, Applied Drama/Theatre, Popular Culture and Film. Has presented papers and keynote addresses on various topics in Literature, Theatre and Popular Culture in conferences and Seminars. In 2007 was awarded a two year Melon Research Fellowship at Wits University at the Department of African Literature and Dramatic Art Division.
In 2013 was awarded Wits University’s SPARC Distinguished Scholar Award and is also Alexander van Humboldt Senior Research Fellow. Here are sampled publications: Theatre for Development in Kenya: In Search of Appropriate Procedure and Methodology; ‘In Search of New Performance Spaces: Theatre Practitioners and FM Radio Stations in Kenya” in Ed. Kene Igweonu and Osita Okegbue. Performative Inter-Actions in African Theatre3: Making Space, Rethinking Drama and Theatre in Africa;“ Ambiguities and Paradoxes: Framing Northern Intervention in the Constant Gardener in Hollywood’s Africa After 1994;“Intervention theatre traditions in East Africa and the paradox of patronage”.
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