Humanities at Work Brown Bag: Germans on the Kenyan Coast

Humanities at Work Brown Bag: Germans on the Kenyan Coast

Diani, a coastal town on the Indian Ocean, is significantly defined by a large European presence that has spurred economic development and is also supported by close relationships between Kenyans and European immigrants and tourists.

Join an IHR Humanities at Work brown bag with Nina Berman as she examines the repercussions that these economic and social interactions have brought to life on the Kenyan coast. She will explore what happens when poorer and less powerful members of a community are forced to give way to profit-based real estate development, what it means when most of Diani’s schools and water resources are supplied by funds from immigrants, and what the impact of mixed marriages is on notions of kinship and belonging as well as the economy. This unique story about a small Kenyan town also recounts a wider tale of opportunity, oppression, resilience, exploitation, domination, and accommodation in a world of economic, political, and social change.

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Institute for Humanities Research
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Social Sciences 109, Tempe campus