Maureen Amimo

• Lecturer, Maasai Mara University

Maureen Amimo is an Andrew Mellon African Urbanities Postdoctoral scholar at Makerere University in Uganda. She also teaches African Literature at Maasai Mara University in Kenya. She holds a PhD in English from Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has published on African travel writing, urban literatures and cultural studies. Her current research explores the nocturnal African city through the ritual of night running.

• 2021–present Lecturer, Maasai Mara University
• 2025–present Researcher, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
• 2021–2024 Reseacher, Makerere University

• 2020 Stellenbosch University, PhD in English Studies
• 2014 University of Nairobi, MA in Literature
• 2010 Moi University, BA Literature

• African Humanities Association

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