Chapane Mutiua Succesfully Defends Doctoral Dissertation

11 April 2022

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Chapane Mutiua has passed his viva voce examination, thus completing his doctoral project 'Bridging the Land to the Sea: Tenzi Literature, Oral Historiography and the Construction of Identities from late 19th Century Angoche'.

Congratulations to Chapane Mutiua, who succesfully defended his doctoral dissertation last week. Mutiua joined CSMC in 2017 as a PhD student in African Studies. His thesis, which is entitled Bridging the Land to the Sea: Tenzi Literature, Oral Historiography and the Construction of Identities from late 19th Century Angoche', analyses the typology and style of a local Swahili composed tenzi poem, which he employs as a case study to explore the historical process of the construction of identities in the region of Angoche and its hinterland, from the late nineteenth century onwards.