Publications

(2023). Changing the narrative and gendering Kenyan political history: Jael Mbogo’s fight for parliamentary elections in the 1960s. Women’s History Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2023.2208411

(2023). Landscape of colonial detention sites. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1266

(2022). Women in philosophy (African feminist philosophy). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African Women History. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.500

(2022). Presidential powers in postcolonial Africa deserve historical attention. History in Africa, 49, 185-206. https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2021.18

(2020). Kenyan political autobiographies and the revival of a masculine authority. In A. Bardazzi & A. Bazzoni (Eds.), Gender & authority across disciplines, space, and times (pp. 59-83). Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45160-8

(2017). Jomo Kenyatta and the repression of the “last” Mau Mau leaders, 1961-65. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 11(3), 442-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/17531055.2017.1354521

(2023). Working with African political autobiographies. In R. Phillips & J. Johns (Eds.), Fieldwork for social research (p. 217). Sage. ISBN: 9781529764383

(2022). Wangari Maathai. In C. Goucher (Ed.), Women who changed the world: Their lives, challenges, and accomplishments through history. ABC-Clio. ISBN: 9781440868245

(2016). Becoming minister for lands: Jackson Angaine and Meru politics (1961-1963). Mambo! (Journal of the French Institute of Research in Africa). https://mambo.hypotheses.org/963

(2015). Virtues for all, state for no one?: Jomo Kenyatta’s postcolonial political imagination. In A. Sonderegger (Ed.), African thoughts on colonial and neo-colonial worlds: Facets of an intellectual history of Africa (pp. 67-86). Neofelis Verlag. ISBN. 9783958080232

(2025, June 18-20). Writing African parliamentary history to decolonize the history of the African state [Conference presentation]. Conference on How to Decolonize Political History?, University of Antwerp, Center for Political History. 

(2024, November 25). Knock, knock, who’s there? The early history of African women’s parliamentary representation (1960s-1970s) [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the Commission “Connecting the World: Europe, Africa and the Americas”, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

(2024, January 15-19). Reading African feminist philosophy to write the political history of women in Africa [Invited conference presentation]. Conference on Actualité de la Philosophie Africaine, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès/Sciences Po.

(2024, January 4-7). Parliamentary pioneers: An overview of the first African female members of parliament in the 1960s [Conference presentation]. American History Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

(2023, November 10). Feminising whiteness, reinventing empire: Female colonial administrators in British African colonies in the 1950s [Conference presentation]. 17th Workshop des Forschungsschwerpunkts Frauen- und Geschlechtergeschichte der Historisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien.

(2022, November 14). Jomo Kenyatta’s political imagination [Invited webinar presentation]. The Political Thought of the Philosopher Kings, Ideas in African Politics Network. https://democracyinafrica.org/the-political-thought-of-the-philosopher-kings/

(2022, March 8). Presentation of research [Invited departmental seminar]. Department of History, University of Sheffield.

(2022, May 2). The good, the bad, and the ugly: Archetypes of African presidents and their limits [Invited conference presentation]. Afrika’ – Bilder, Diskurse, Stereotype. Zur Selbst- und Fremdrepräsentation eines Kontinents, University of Salzburg and Department of African Studies, University of Vienna.

(2021, September 3). Étudier les personnels politiques au nord et au sud du Sahara [Invited workshop participation]. Sciences Po Bordeaux.

(2021, June 7-11). Decolonising and Africanizing the history of presidentialism in postcolonial African countries [Conference presentation]. Africa Challenges Conference, African Studies Association in Germany (VAD e.V.), Online.

(2021, May 5). Erlesenes Erforschen (Online, live stream): Power and the presidency in Kenya [Invited book presentation]. Library of the University of Vienna. https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at/events/014501.html

(2020, December 10-12). Unless you come out, men will be in the House: Gendering archival narratives to decolonize African women political history [Conference presentation]. Archiving, Recording and Representing Feminism: The Global History of Women’s Emancipation in the 20th Century, Online.

(2020, June 30). Violent silences: Jael Mbogo’s forgotten campaign to the 1969 parliamentary elections in Kenya [Conference presentation]. Junges Forum: Thinking About Violence in Africa Through Women’s Experiences: Vulnerability & Subversion, Center March Bloch, Berlin.

The following conference where I was due to present organize a book presentation together with Ken Opalo was cancelled due to the Covid-19 crisis: African Studies Associations UK (September 2020). 

The following conference where I was due to present a paper in 2020 was reported to 2023: “African Challenges – Tagung 2020,” Verein für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland.

(2019, November 7-11). Try anything but what you ought to be: Wangari Maathai, gender, and politics in Kenya [Conference presentation]. Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Association Austria (ÖGGF).

(2015, November 19-21). Decolonization and the making of a president: Perspectives on Jomo Kenyatta [Conference presentation]. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

(2015, October 30-31). Is the history of decolonization and state building (necessarily) a history of the centre? [Conference presentation]. Ph.D. Conference, British Institute of Eastern Africa.

(2015, November 19-21). Decolonization and the making of a president: Perspectives on Jomo Kenyatta [Conference presentation]. African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.

(2015, October 30-31). Is the history of decolonization and state building (necessarily) a history of the centre? [Conference presentation]. Ph.D. Conference, British Institute of Eastern Africa.

(2014, June 30 - July 3). Jomo Kenyatta, la famille et l’État: Une généalogie historique commune? [Conference presentation]. 3e Rencontres des Études Africaines en France, Bordeaux.

(2014, January 8-10). Jomo Kenyatta and anthropology: From science of empire to postcolonial politics? [Conference presentation]. Ideologies of Empire in the Modern World, European University Institute, Florence.

(2013, December 6). From anthropology to politics: Jomo Kenyatta’s uses of the concept of civilization [Conference presentation]. New Directions in the Study of Civilizational Discourse, European University Institute, Florence.

Articles

Angelo, A., & Nyabwengi, C. B. (2023, June 15). Mama Ngina Kenyatta at 90: the quiet power behind Kenya’s famous political family. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com

(2023, May 17). Der politische Kampf von Parlamentarierinnen in Afrika. Der Standard – Blog der Junge Akademie. https://www.derstandard.at

(2021, July). The best books on African presidents and their history. Discover the Best Books. www.shepherd.com. 

(2021, May 5). Power and the presidency in Kenya [Book presentation]. Erlesenes Erforschen, Library of the University of Vienna. https://bibliothek.univie.ac.at

(2020). Wangari Maathai: Global fame, national battles, ambivalent legacy. East Africa’s Global Lives Blog.

(2020, August 8). #Bookclub: Power and the presidency in Kenya. Democracy in Africa Blog. Republished as African presidents have been wrongly stereotyped: What we can learn from Kenya. The Conversation Africa, August 18, 2020. https://theconversation.com

(2020, February 12). Why Kenya’s Mau Mau gave up their fight. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com

(2019, October 10). African presidents have a history too. Cambridge Core Blog. https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog

(2018, November 5). En politique, les femmes demeurent aussi craintes que courtisées. Le Monde Afrique. https://www.lemonde.fr

(2017, December 14). Grace Mugabe: Quand la Première Dame oscille entre politique et symbolique. The Conversation France. https://theconversation.com

(2017). Die Grenzen des Patriarchats: Frauen und die Parlamentswahlen in Kenia. Frauen Solidarität, 142(4), 2017.

(2017, August 16). Femmes politiques africaines. The Conversation France. https://theconversation.com

(2017, January 20). Famille et politique: Donald Trump est-il (vraiment) le ‘Premier Président Africain des États-Unis? The Conversation Africa. Republished as Donald Trump est-il le plus Africain des présidents Américains? Le Monde, January 20, 2017. https://www.lemonde.fr

(2016). Neue Schwäche und alte Probleme für Afrikas Parlamente. Nord Süd Dialog, Newsletter, 41, 6.

(2016, May 23). Mai 68, Senghor et ‘Con-Bandit’. The Conversation France. https://theconversation.com

(2016, July). Fanon est mort. L’avons-nous tué? Achille Mbembe explore les ‘Politiques de l’Inimitié’. EUI Blogs. https://blogs.eui.eu

Angelo, A., & Juompan-Yakam, C. (2011, August 14-27). Sciences-Po, dans la fabrique des élites. Jeune Afrique. https://www.jeuneafrique.com

(2011). L’expatriation universitaire à l’heure de la mondialisation. Fondation Jean Jaurès, Note n°82. https://jean-jaures.org

Interviews

(2025, July 9) Objets de pouvoir - Kenya: le chasse-mouche de Jomo Kenyatta. Radio France Internationale.

(2024, September 23). Frauen im Parlament: Warum Demokratie mehr als Quoten braucht. OeAW News.

(2022, February 25). Kenias Politik ohne koloniale Brille. Die Presse.

(2020, December 22). Kenianische Feminismen aus historischer Perspektive. Globale Dialog – Women on Air, Radio Orange.

(2020, September 23). Power and the presidency in Kenya [Audio podcast interview with Prof. Susan Tompson]. New Books Network.

(2020, June 7). Wie Forschung während der Ausgangsbeschränkungen aussieht. Schrödingerskatze.

(2018, November 28). La forte présence des femmes dans les Parlements africains n’est pas une garantie de changement. Le Monde Afrique.

(2018, June 8). Frauen, Politik und Parlamentarismus im südlichen Afrika. Welt im Ohr, Oe1 Campus.

Expert interviews with journalists

(2024, July 19). Interview with Marion Douet, author of “Au Kenya, l’empire économique et politique de Mama Ngina Kenyatta, ‘la fille du village’.” Le Monde.

(2024, April 14). Interview with Alicia Mihami, author of “En Afrique, les femmes se fraient un chemin en politique.” TV5MONDE.

(2021, March 9). Interview with Guy Birch, assistant producer at Woodcut Media, for the preparatory phase of Tony Robinson’s Forgotten War Stories (history programme for Channel 4 on Britain’s colonial wars).

(2018, May). Interview with L.-A. Carlo, author of “Dans le top 20 en politique.” CB News Mag (Numéro spécial Afrique, “L’Avenir au Féminin”, No. 67, pp. 34-35).

(2018, February 15). Interview with Philippe Martinat, author of “Afrique du Sud: Un nouveau président pour un pays fracturé.” Le Parisien.

2021). Review of Authoritarian Africa by Nic Cheeseman & Jonathan Fischer. Revue d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Afrique. https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e482

(2020). Review of Seeing like a citizen: Decolonization, development, and the making of Kenya, 1945-1980by Kara Moskowitz. Journal of Eastern African Studies. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X20000440

(2015). Review of Figures de la révolution africaine: De Kenyatta à Sankara by Saïd Bouamama. Afrique Contemporaine, 4, 198-200.

(2015). Review of Human rights in the shadow of colonial violence: The wars of independence in Kenya and Algeria. European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire, 21(5), 773-776.

(2014). Review of L’Absence by Mama Keita. African Studies Review, 57(3), 251-252.

(2014). Review of Grigris by Haroun Mahamat-Saleh. African Studies Review, 57(1), 229-231.

(2013). Review of A Blooming Business by Ton van Zantvoort. African Studies Review, 56(3), 257-258.