African Women and Intellectual Leadership (PDF)

of Ethnoconservation Committee of Nature Kenya (East Africa Natural History Society); Member of Nature Tanzania; Founder of Education for Social Responsibility-Africa; Member of the Kenya Museum Society, Nairobi, Kenya; and Honorary Professor in Ethnobotany at the Traditional Medicine Institute, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He holds a Bachelor of Education (BEd) Honours Degree in Linguistics and English Language from the University of Nairobi; a Master of Science (MSc) Degree in Applied Linguistics and the Teaching of English for Specific Purposes from the University Aston in Birmingham, England. He is a Former Senior Research Fellow and Thematic Unit Head of Language, Culture, and Society (Linguistic Anthropology) at the Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya and continues to be involved in research and postgraduate supervision at the same University on African Women's Studies Programme. He is also engaged with Creative and Performing Artists in Mental Health Awareness Programmes within the East African Community. His teaching and research interest is in gender and women's studies.

Dannica Fleuss is Research Fellow at the Institute of Future Media, Democracy and Society at Dublin City University (Ireland) and Research Associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance (University of Canberra, Australia). She has been a research fellow and senior lecturer in political theory, empirical political science, and political philosophy at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, and Heidelberg University. She is a co-convenor of the PSA's Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, a co-convenor of the German DVPW's Teaching and Learning Specialist Group, and an associate editor of the interdisciplinary journal Democratic Theory. She was a visiting research fellow and lecturer at the University of Canberra (Australia), Westminster University (London, UK), the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), the University of Nairobi, and the Technical University of Kenya (Kenya). Dannica holds an MA in philosophy and political science and a PhD in political science. Her published research, for example, in Political Studies, Policy & Internet, Political Studies or Political Geography, and in her monograph Radical Proceduralism, focuses on theories of democratic legitimacy, deliberative democracy, environmental politics and attempts at decolonizing democratic theory.