2024 ALI MAZRUI MEMORIAL LECTURE

“Social reproduction and surplus
populations of the agrarian South”
Pr. Lyn OSSOME
Nominee 2024
Nairobi, October 11, 2024
2024 ALI MAZRUI LECTURE TENTATIVE PROGRAM FRIDAY OCTOBER 11, 2024
Heure | Programme |
Conférencier invité |
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13h00 - 14h00 | Message de bienvenue |
Dr Joyce K. MUCHEMI |
14h00 | Présentation des intervenants |
Dr Joyce K. MUCHEMI |
14h03 | Université internationale des États-Unis Afrique - Accueil du chancelier africain |
Dr Joyce K. MUCHEMI |
14h06 | Message de l'AAPS |
AAPS Pdt |
14h11 | Présentation des nominées pour 2024 | AAPS Pdt |
14h30 | Conférence Ali MAZRUI 2024, présentée par Pr Lyn OSSOME sur le thème « Reproduction sociale et populations excédentaires du Sud agraire ». | |
15h00 | Réponse d'un politologue kenyan | |
15h10 | Reconnaissance de l'association nationale, félicitations et remarques finales | |
15h30 - 16h30 |
Cocktail |

Lyn Ossome is Associate Professor and Director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR), Makerere University. She has held previous faculty positions as Associate Professor of Political Studies at Wits University, Senior Research Fellow at MISR, and Visiting Presidential Professor at Yale University. Her specializations are in the fields of feminist political economy and feminist political theory, with research interests in gendered labour, land and agrarian questions, the modern state, and the political economy of gendered violence. Her books includeGender, Ethnicity and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy: States of Violence(2018), the co-edited volumeLabour Questions in the Global South (2021), and a forthcoming monograph titled Democracy’s Subjections: Colonial Modernity and the Gendered Subject of Violence. She is one of the editors of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, and Feminist Africa. She serves on numerous boards and is the current president of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).