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Dr Freda Nkirote M’Mbogori is a senior Kenyan archaeologist with considerable experience in leadership roles and with an impressive international profile. She has spent the last seven years as Deputy Director and then Country Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa where she has been a close collaborator of multiple staff within the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute. She has held CoI and PI roles with Cambridge staff and has previously been a visiting scholar. Dr M’Mbogori is currently the Senior Research Scientist National Museums of Kenya having previously held the position of Director of the BIEA, president of the Pan-African Archaeological Association and was previously a department head at the National Museums of Kenya.
Affiliation(s): British Institute in Eastern Africa
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Œuvres publiées : M'Mbogori, F. N. (2019). Share or return of objects: How Africa can own what is hers. Goethe-Institut Kenya.
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Rose Miyonga is a Kenyan-British writer and historian and a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, where her research focuses on the dynamics of memories of the Mau Mau War in post-independence Kenya. Her current work looks at grassroots histories and memories of Mau Mau in post-colonial Kenya, focusing on the lived experiences of survivors. She argues that survivors have found ways to remember despite and sometimes because of wider processes of suppression and exclusion within public history-making. These central questions, of what Mau Mau memories look like at the margins and how survivors have preserved and made sense of their pasts amid wider political forgetting, have led her to a methodological intervention within the field of Mau Mau studies. Research interests: Kenyan history; legacies of empire and violence; public history; memory studies; history of emotions; post-colonial studies; land justice; archival justice.
Affiliation(s): University of Warwick
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Œuvres publiées : Miyonga, R. (2023). 'We kept them to remember': Tin trunk archives and the emotional history of the Mau Mau war. History Workshop Journal, 96, 96–114
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Nomawethu Hlazo is a researcher based at the Evolutionary Studies Institute and Rising Star, Cradle of Humankind. She is also a doctoral student at the University of Cape Town, having completed her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Archaeology, followed by a BSc (Hons) and a Master's degree (with distinction). Her research concentrates on geometric morphometrics, and she intends to apply new techniques such as palaeoproteomics to investigate shape change as well as the evolutionary processes and ecological niches occupied by the genus Paranthropus and other species. She has worked at several sites, both in the Cradle of Humankind and in Kenya, and her research has demonstrated that fossil hominins are more diverse and variable than previously expected.
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Wilson Jilala is a prominent Tanzanian forensic anthropologist, bioarchaeologist, and crime scene investigator, known for his work with the Tanzania Police Force's Forensic Bureau and the National Museum of Tanzania. His contributions span forensic education, disaster victim identification, and the discovery of rare human skeletal variations. His research addresses gaps between Tanzania's legal inquest frameworks and medico-legal training, co-authored findings on unusual femoral anatomy, and explored the traditional handling and storage of human remains alongside the illicit trade in cultural belongings. His recent work examines premarital genetic screening for albinism to prevent discrimination and abuse.
Affiliation(s): University of Dar es Salaam
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Œuvres publiées : Jilala, W., & Lwoga, N. (2024). The illicit trade in cultural objects in Tanzania: An investigative report. Journal of the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, 4(1).
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Angela Kabiru is a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA). She has a BA in Archaeology (University of Nairobi), an MSc in Tourism Management (University of Surrey) and an MSc in Geographical Information Sciences (Lund University). Angela has worked at the National Museums of Kenya all her professional life, starting off as a Research Intern, Research Assistant, and now as a Research Scientist. She is an archaeologist specialising in cultural heritage research, tourism development and management, and GIS. Her work focuses on landscape archaeology, settlement pattern analysis, and GIS-based reconstruction of past landscapes. She has experience in archaeological survey, heritage impact assessment, and heritage management within national and international frameworks. Her interests include digital archaeology, remote sensing, and policy-relevant heritage research.
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Dr Eva Namusoke is Senior Curator, African Collections Futures, working across collections from and about the African continent in the University of Cambridge’s museums, garden, libraries, archives, and departments. Eva published a report on these collections in December 2024. She was the curator of Bound Together: Leather from Northern Nigeria (2025-2026) at The Fitzwilliam Museum. Eva’s history PhD from the University of Cambridge focused on the development of the Anglican church in Uganda post-independence. She obtained an MA in African Studies from Yale University. After her PhD, Eva worked on the Commonwealth Oral History Project at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) in London, followed by roles in academia, public health, and policy research in Mauritius and Kampala.
Affiliation(s): University of Cambridge
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Œuvres publiées : Namusoke, Eva, African Collections Futures, Apollo - University of Cambridge Repositor, 2024
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Dr Nancy Rushohora is a Tanzanian archaeologist and heritage scholar whose work deeply engages with memory, colonial history, and cultural heritage. She is a Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies staff member and an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter (UK) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). Her research more specifically focuses on the archaeology of resistance, heritage, trauma, collective memory, and the politics of photographs and memorialization.
Affiliation(s): University of Dar es Salaam
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Œuvres publiées : Rushohora, N. (2024). Tanzania and the Apparent Lack of Restitution Activism. Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 50(1), 168-181.
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Syokau Mutonga est chargée de recherche et d'opérations chez Open Restitution Africa, une plateforme de données ouvertes qui vise à donner la parole aux Africains dans le débat sur la restitution. Depuis dix ans, elle travaille dans le secteur du patrimoine culturel en tant qu'universitaire, auteure, militante et commissaire d'exposition, s'efforçant de faire entendre la voix des communautés. Ses travaux explorent comment aborder le passé douloureux et complexe du Kenya tout en le laissant dans sa complexité, son caractère inachevé et son ancrage dans le présent. Chez Open Restitution Africa, elle pilote les opérations tout en soutenant le département de recherche. Ses recherches consistent notamment à constituer des bases de données sur les enjeux clés de la restitution, à élaborer des cadres de recherche et à mener des études de cas qui alimentent la plateforme de données ouvertes et permettent à toutes les parties prenantes de prendre des décisions éclairées.
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"Karen Byera Ijumba travaille depuis plus de dix ans à l'intersection de la recherche, de la culture, de la créativité et de la gestion des connaissances numériques. Elle cumule les fonctions d'archiviste physique et numérique, de chercheuse et de chef de projet de recherche universitaire. Titulaire d'une licence en droit (LLB) et d'une licence (BA) avec mention en patrimoine et culture publique de l'Université du Cap (Afrique du Sud), ainsi que d'un master en gestion des arts et de la culture de l'Université du Witwatersrand (Afrique du Sud), elle apprécie la découverte de différentes perspectives, appréhendant les choses comme des puzzles et des cartes, et réfléchissant à la manière dont les éléments s'articulent autour d'un concept nuancé. Ses travaux visent à combiner les savoirs marginalisés et éphémères avec des outils créatifs et numériques afin de combler les lacunes en matière de connaissances et d'aborder les questions de pouvoir et de perspective dans la production du savoir. Elle a reçu la bourse NRF Innovation Masters en 2016 et, conjointement avec d'autres lauréats, le prix (NI)HSS Creative Collections – Meilleure performance publique en 2023, pour sa co-organisation du 26e festival hybride Poetry Africa. Elle a également dirigé le développement de la carte numérique de Poetry Africa. En tant que chercheuse principale chez Open Restitution Africa, ses principales responsabilités consistaient à travailler en collaboration avec les cofondateurs du projet / responsables du numérique et de la recherche pour conceptualiser, développer et évaluer des méthodologies qui prennent en compte la complexité de la construction d'une base de connaissances et d'ensembles de données sur la restitution centrés sur l'Afrique, à soutenir la conception et le remplissage du contenu de la plateforme de données ouvertes et à superviser le travail des membres permanents et saisonniers de l'équipe de recherche."
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