john.njenga.karugia

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Dr.
John Njenga
Karugia
karugia@em.uni-frankfurt.de

John Njenga Karugia researches on political and economic interactions between Asia and Africa. He has researched intensively on Chinese migration to Africa and African migration to China. His current research focuses on the Indian Ocean.

Project / Institute / Department: 

Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies / Institute for England and American Studies / The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Additional Address Information: 

Goethe Frankfurt University

Street / P.O. Box: 

Juridicum, Postfach 21 Senckenberganlage 31

Postcode (ZIP Code): 

60325

City: 

Frankfurt am Main

Country: 

Germany

Phone: 

+49 (0)69 798-25405

AFRASO Publications: 

Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; “Tazara Memory in Africa’s Contemporary Politics of Dignity” ; (当代非洲政治尊严中的坦赞回忆), International Aid Journal ; 5th 2015 (6th in general) [2015年第5期，总第6期] ; Beijing, 18-25
Schulze-Engler, Frank, Karugia, John Njenga, Malreddy, Pavan Kumar ; 2018 ; “Even the dead have human rights”: A conversation with Homi K. Bhabha ; Journal of Postcolonial Writing ; https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2018.1446682 ; DOI: 10.1080/17449855.2018.1446682
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2018 ; Smart Cities in Africa: Knowledge Production and Knowledge Transfer for Megacities ; Habari ; 4 ; 52-55
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2017 ; Interaktionsraum Indischer Ozean ; Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur ; Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker und Gabriele Dürbeck ; Stuttgart: Metzler ; 160-164
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2017 ; Indischer Ozean ; Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur. ; Hg. von Dirk Göttsche, Axel Dunker und Gabriele Dürbeck ; Metzler ; Stuttgart
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2016 ; Indian Ocean Mega Projects in East Africa vs. Human Rights ; Megaprojekte Contra Menschenrechte - Fortschritt um jeden Preis? ; Braun, Naima ; No. 4 ; Tanzania-Network ; Berlin
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2016 ; Chinese Migration to Tanzania: The Political Economy of Chinese Migration to Tanzania in a Transnational and Translocal Context ; Mkuki na Nyota Publishers ; Dar es Salaam; 454

Talks / Lectures: 

Karugia, John Njenga ; Writing Back to Whom? East African Literature in a Multipolar World, WiSe 2013/14 ; S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-A: Imaginationen des Indischen Ozeans in der ostafrikanischen Literatur und Oralkultur, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ; Goethe University Frankfurt
Karugia, John Njenga ; Writers in African Politics, WiSe 2014/15 ; S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-A: Imaginationen des Indischen Ozeans in der ostafrikanischen Literatur und Oralkultur, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ; Goethe University Frankfurt
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; Wissensproduktion in der geteilten transregionalen Forschung ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; Workshop: Geteilte Forschung: Epistrmologische Herausforderungen gemeinsamen Forschens in transregionalen Zusammenhängen ; Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; Wissensproduktion in der geteilten transregionalen Forschung ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; AFRASO Workshop Geteilte Forschung Epistemologische Herausforderungen gemeinsamen Forschens in transregionalen Zusammenhängen ; AFRASO, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2014 ; Wealth in China’s ‚Colonies‘ in East Africa ; S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; Uncommon Wealths Riches and Realities, 15th Triennial Conference of ECLALS ; University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2016 ; Travelling Afrasian Objects ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum, S4-A: Imaginationen des Indischen Ozeans in der ostafrikanischen Literatur und Oralkultur ; 27th GAPS Annual Conference, "The Postcolonial and the Material" ; University of Augsburg
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; Transregional Research in Trans-Areas: Methodological Reflections ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; Institut für Ethnologie ; Universität Hamburg
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; Towards a Braver History of the Indian Ocean ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; International Conference: Relations and Networks in Indian Ocean Writing ; Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; Forschungskolloquium Forum INPUTS ‘Imaginary Homelands: (Forced) Migration and Diaspora in Postcolonial Cultures, Literatures and Languages, ; Institut für Poskoloniale & Transkulturelle Studien, Universität Bremen, Bremen
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2013 ; Successes, Challenges and Paradoxes of China-Africa Relations ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; China and Afrika Seminar, Institut für Ethnologie ; Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
John Njenga Karugia ; 2017 ; Responsible Geographies of Afrasian and Atlantic Trans-oceanic Memories ; Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften ; Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
John Njenga Karugia ; 2017 ; Researching Afrasia and the Afrasian Sea: Epistemological Self-Reflexivity in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production ; Researching South-South Development Cooperation Conference ; Department of Geography, Cambridge
John Njenga Karugia ; 2017 ; Oceans and Regions of Memory: Towards Responsible Trans-oceanic Cosmopolitanism in Afrabian Politics ; Second Annual Conference of Memory Studies Association ; University of Copenhagen
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2016 ; Multidirectional Afrasian Mnemoeconomics ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; ACLALS Triennial Conference 2016: Ideas of Postcolonial Culture: Inclusions and Exclusions ; Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2014 ; Memory, Migration and Politics in Asia-Africa Relations ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; Public Lecture ; Jindal School of International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University Delhi, New Delhi,
South Africa and China - Politics and Perspective ; Mageza-Barthel, Rirhandu & John Njenga Karugia, SoSe 2015 ; S2-C: New Approaches to Transnational Gender Politics: Chinese-African Collaboration, S2-C: Neue Ansätze transnationaler Geschlechterpolitik: Chinesisch-Afrikanische Kooperationen, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-A: Imaginationen des Indischen Ozeans in der ostafrikanischen Literatur und Oralkultur, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-B: Der Indische Ozean als Erinnerungsraum ; SoSe 2015 ; Goethe University Frankfurt
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2014 ; KiswaChin - Sinokiswahili in Kariakoo Chinatown ; S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; 27. Swahili Colloquium University of Bayreuth and University of Leipzig Symposium „New Dynamics in Swahili Studies“ ; University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2015 ; Indischer Ozean ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; Expertentreffen Indischer Ozean, Expertenkreis zur Region Indischer Ozean ; Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2014 ; Indian Ocean Migrations and Impacts in the 21st Century: China and India in East Africa ; S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture, S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space ; Public Lecture ; Department of African Studies, Delhi University, New Delhi, India
Karugia, John Njenga ; 2016 ; Indian Ocean Mega Projects vs. Human Rights in Africa Within a Global Perspective of Asian Engagement ; S4-B: The Indian Ocean as Memory Space, S4-A: Indian Ocean Imaginaries in East African Literature and Oral Culture ; Gerechtigkeit im Ausverkauf? Wie Ressourcenabbau und Megaprojekte Menschenrechte und Verteilungskonflikte in Tansania beeinflussen ; Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Berlin

Pages

Publications: 

Karugia, Njenga John 2011: The Chinese in Tanzania: Migrants and Investors, in Duke East Asia Nexus Journal, Duke University, Durham.

Karugia, Njenga John 2010: Chinese Migration to Tanzania; Chinese Deaths and Chinese Experts Cemetery in Dar es Salaam Tanzania, in Afrika Tanulmanyok 2010. IV. Evfolyam, 1. szam.

Karugia, Njenga John 2009: China und Tansania – Chinesische Arbeiter, Chinesische Medizin und Chinesische Eisenbahn, Habari 4., Tanzania-Network e.V

Karugia, Njenga John 2009: Tansanias Erfahrungen mit chinesichen  Arbeitgebern, Habari 4., Tanzania-Network e.V.

Karugia, Njenga John 2008: Africa Conflict Prevention: Early Warning and Early Response, A Critical Analysis of ECOWAS, IGAD, and SADC Systems, VDM Publishers, Saarbrucken.

Karugia, Njenga John 2008: Barack Obama, Jewish Gold, African Gods and Other Prose, Global Political Anthologies, BOD Publishers, Norderstedt.

Anyanwu, Rose-Juliet, Karugia John Njenga et. al 2007: Wittenberg Declaration for Entrepreneurial Spirit and Comparative Advantages in Africa, Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Wittenberg.