Prof. Iribe Mwangi Wins Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship

Prof. Iribe Mwangi of the Department of Kiswahili, University of Nairobi and Prof. Mungai Mutonya of Washington University in St. Louis have won the prestigious Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. Their proposal titled “Collaborative Research and Graduate Training and Mentoring: Interdisciplinary focus on language contact, migration, innovation, and identity in Nairobi” has been selected for funding by the Advisory Council of Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) after several competative rounds of evaluation. Expressing his delight, Prof Iribe paid his gratitude to the Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Ephraim Wahome for the role he played during the application process. The Department congratulates the two Carnegie Fellows for this achievement.