Anne Nkirote Kubai is an associate professor of World Christianity and interreligious studies. She is a researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. She researches on conflict and peace building, religion, genocide, transitional justice, sexual and gender-based violence and psychosocial studies. She is a professor extraordinarius at the Institute of Gender Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA).
Anne Nkirote Kubai | |
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Nationality | Kenyan |
Occupation | Researcher |
Title | Associate Professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | PhD in King College-London in 1995 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Religious Studies |
Institutions | Researcher Sodertorn University |
Education
editKubai obtained her PhD in 1995 from Kings College, London. Her doctoral thesis is titled "The Muslim presence and representations of Islam among the Meru of Kenya."[1] Kubai has a Bachelor of Education degree and a master's degree from the University of Nairobi. Her Masters dissertation focused on sectarianism and ethno-religious politics in the early 20th century.[2]
Career
editKubai is currently a researcher at the School for Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University, Sweden. She has worked in other capacities among them as the Research Director for Life & Peace Institute in Uppsala, Sweden, and as a senior social scientist at the Division of Global Health (IHCAR), at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.[3]
Kubai is an affiliated research fellow in practical theology and missiology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa and a research associate at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, Pretoria.[4] She is also a researcher at the school for Historical and Contemporary Studies in Södertörn University, Sweden.[5] She was a lecturer (May 1995 - June 2001) in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Kenyatta University,Nairobi Kenya and senior lecturer, Kigali Institute of Education, Rwanda.[2]
Research
editKubai researches on religion, interfaith relations, peace and conflict, gender, and sexual violence and the way spiritualties/religions (indigenous and others) shape social-political developments, post-conflict social reconstruction and the sustainability discourse in different parts of the world.[1][6] For instance, her work on Post-genocide Rwanda examines the role of religion in reconciliation and reconstruction of the society.[7]
Documentaries
editKubai has produced two documentaries: Female Warriors: Production by Anne Kubai, 2017 and Reformed Raiders: Production by Anne Kubai, 2017. She has also appeared in a number of documentaries including Ordinary Savage: The Origins of Violence and Hurt Feelings (2018). “A hard-hitting documentary about humans… and Folkmord I Rwanda: Swedish Radio.[8]
Selected works
edit- Kubai, A. (2023). Peacebuilding in Fragile, War-Torn Societies in Africa. In The Routledge International Handbook of Sociology and Christianity (pp. 326-338). Routledge.
- Kubai, A. (2021). The “Africa Rising” Paradox, Human Trafficking, and Perilous Migration Across the Sahara and the Mediterranean to Europe. In: Omeje, K. (eds) The Governance, Security and Development Nexus. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.355-372
- Kubai, A. (2016). “Confession’ and ‘Forgiveness’ as a strategy for development in post-genocide Rwanda”. In HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 72, No 4 (2016), 9 pages.
- Kubai, A and Ahlberg, B. (2013). “Making and unmaking ethnicities in the Rwandan context: implication for gender-based violence, health, and wellbeing of women.” In Ethnicity & Health. Volume 18, Issue 5, 469–482.
- Kubai, A. (2013). “Being here and there: migrant communities in Sweden and the conflicts in the Horn of Africa”. In African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal. Vol. 6, No. 2, 174–188.
References
edit- ^ a b "Anne Nkirote Kubai". King's College London. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ a b "Anne Kubai". socialinequalities.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ Osuka, Monika; Maseno, Loreen (2024). "Anne Kubai Weaving the Tapestry of Religion and Post-Conflict Social Construction for the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians". Queen of Sheba: East and Central African Women's Theologies of Liberation (Circle Jubilee Volume 2). Bible in Africa Studies. 40: 103–115. doi:10.20378/irb-94423. ISBN 978-3-86309-977-0.
- ^ "Anne Kubai | Uppsala University - Academia.edu". uppsala.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-23.
- ^ "Anne Kubai - Academia.edu". independent.academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ "Prof. Anne Kubai". www.unisa.ac.za. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
- ^ Kubai, Anne (2016-05-31). "'Confession' and 'Forgiveness' as a strategy for development in post-genocide Rwanda". HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies. 72 (4). doi:10.4102/hts.v72i4.3562. ISSN 2072-8050.
- ^ Otto, Mark; Thornton, Jacob; Bootstrap (2019). "Prof Anne Kubai".[dead link]