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The _Launch of the Moi University Africa Multiple Research Centre_ on 14 April 2026 unfolded as a full and layered academic day. The programme began with registration, followed by an opening ceremony. Key university leaders delivered remarks, including Academic Coordinator Prof. Tom Michael Mboya, Director Prof. Peter Simatei, and Dean Prof. Mary Wahome.

The session _Africa Multiple: The Back Story_ set the context before a Moi-ACC Documentary was screened. The morning continued with Research Section Reports covering Affiliations, Arts and Aesthetics, and Early Career Scholars. After a short health break, a second block of reports tackled Gender and Diversity, Knowledges, Learning, Mobilities, and Moralities. Project Output Reports on East African Asian Writing followed, leading into the lunch break.

Afternoon sessions were wide ranging. Presenters like Hassan J. Ndzovu engaged topics from regional integration to Islamic knowledge and indigenous intelligence. After the reports, Prof. Peter Simatei introduced the transition from MUACC to MUAMRC and outlined what was expected in the next project phase.

Another health break preceded Prof. Wandia Njoya’s keynote lecture, _Africa Researching Africa: Funding, Methods, and Impacts_. The Closing Ceremony wrapped up the formal proceedings.

The programme focused on institutional remarks, research outputs, and scholarly exchange, marking the Centre’s launch as a substantial academic event. It also applauded connections made by fellows to other clusters like UNILAG, Rhodes, and Ki-Zerbo in Burkina Faso, grounding ACC as a vehicle that redefined what African Studies is through collaboration. University of Lagos Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence African Cluster Center - Moi University Daystar University Moi University Eldoret Kenya - Foundation of Knowledge

A photo collage of day one of the 2nd international conference on African Studies, looking at the presenters and engagement of papers presented, feedback sessions and interactive activities. African Cluster Center - Moi University Moi University Eldoret Kenya - Foundation of Knowledge Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence Technical University of Kenya University of Lagos Daystar University Kenyatta University

The Re: membering Research Section of the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence held a successful wokshop in Mombasa from the 23rd to the 25th of November 2025. Profs Peter Simatei and Tom Mboya were among the delegates in the workshop that was hosted by the Moi University African Cluster Centre.
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One of the highlights of day one was a perfomance by students from Moi University Eldoret Kenya - Foundation of Knowledge who presented an adaptation of various of Ngugi WA Thiong’os works dubbed Once Upon a time in Ilmorog. The show reflected on the struggle of independence from neo-colonialism and was in line with the conference theme of multiple inter(actions) Movements and worlds allowing scholars from all over to deliberate on Ngugi's works. All thanks to 64 Theatre Fireside Production Studio African Cluster Center - Moi University Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence

Prof. Amutabi from the Technical University of Kenya presented a keynote address on day one, discussing New Dynamics, Voices, Agency and Identity in the Reconfiguration of African Studies, reflection on multiple phases, approaches and initiatives from the past through actions and movements. Moi University Eldoret Kenya - Foundation of Knowledge Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence

One of the goals of the conference was to have networking opportunities between scholars and this was achieved through sharing of ideas during the conference breaks. African Cluster Center - Moi University Moi University Eldoret Kenya - Foundation of Knowledge Africa Multiple - Cluster of Excellence

The 2nd International conference on African Studies went well with both international and local speakers who spoke on multiple Inter(actions) Movements worlds.

Recap on day one of the 2nd international conference on African Studies kicked off on 20th November with a welcome from Prof. Tom Mboya who invited the Director Moi ACC Prof. Peter Simatei Tirop who had a message as the convener. Later he invited the Dean School of Arts and Social Sciences Prof. Mary Wahome who invited the DVC ARESA, Prof. Khaemba Ongeti who officially opened the conference.

The second Moi University international conference on African Studies kicked off with an keynote address from Prof. Maurice Amutabi where he discusses his paper, New Dynamics, Voices, Agency and Identity in the Reconfiguration of African Studies: reflection on multiple phases, approaches and initiatives from the past through actions and movements.
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Once Upon a Time in Ilmorog is a re-imagination of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s universe as a single, spiraling trial of Kenya’s conscience, spanning from the colonial courtroom to the post-independence palace, all in a single play.

Through a sequence of ritualized “movements,” the play merges several titles from the writer’s bibliography into a living mosaic, traversing; colonial repression, post-independence betrayal, class struggle, gendered awakening, and the grotesque absurdities of modern authoritarianism into a single dramaturgical arc: a nation putting itself on trial.

Performed in a TikTok-era rhythm of montage, chorus, and spoken word, its direction borrows from Brechtian epic theatre, Wole Soyinka’s ritual poetics, and Peter Brook’s total theatre with the oral tradition at the heart of Ngũgĩ’s work. The result is both a political pageant and spiritual mirror, which the director calls, a theatrical remix of Ngũgĩ for the digital world.

Are you coming for the show? Will you spot the works by Ngũgĩ? See you there!
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Welcome to the conference week. Happy week ahead from us at the African Cluster Center - Moi University