Esther Okumu
- Name
- Esther Okumu
Esther Awuor Okumu is a PhD student on a DAAD scholarship (Oct 2022 to
Sept 2026) and is supervised by Prof Dr Baz Lecocq.
Her research focuses on
Reconfiguring Colonial Archives: On Historical Trauma and Collective Healing in East Africa
Africa.
She obtained a B. Education Arts (History & Swahili) with Information and Technology,
Maseno University Kenya, in 2015.
She also obtained an M.A. in Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture at
University of Potsdam, in 2020.
Her research interests include Archival Power, Reconstruction of
History, Multiple Narratives/Epistemologies and Cultural Representations.
E-mail: okumuest@student.hu-berlin.de