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Opolot J. Okia
Assistant Professor
Bancroft 356
(803) 323-4676
African History, with emphasis on Modern East Africa (colonial)
Secondary fields are trans-Atlantic Migrations, African Development
and African American History.
Background:
Born in Indiana, Dr. Okia was educated at Auburn University, Alabama, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and
took
his Ph.D.
from West Virginia University, Morgantown, in 2002. A Dissertation Fellow at the
University of
Tennessee,
joined the Winthrop Faculty in August 2005.
Recent Representative Publications and Presentations
"Child
Labor in Colonial Kenya, 1920-1930," Child Labour's Past Conference,
Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
In the Interests of Community: Archdeacon
Walter Owen and the Issue of Communal Forced Labour
in Kenya, 1921-1930", The
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 32 (2), January 2004,
19-40.
"British Humanitarians and the Idea of
Forced Labor." Southern Conference on British Studies, Memphis,
TN., November 2004.
"The Idea of Slavery and Forced Labor
in Colonial Kenya." South Eastern Regional African Studies
Conference,
Charleston, S.C., April 2004.
Promethean Fire: Free Labor Ideology and Trusteeship",
Journal of Cultural Studies 3, March 2001,
549-565.
Contributor to Encyclopedia of African History (Routledge, 2004).
Contributor to Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia
of African American Associations
(Routledge, 2001).
"Forced Labor in Rhodesia and Kenya,
1900-1934." African studies Association, Washington, D.C.,
November
2002.
Classes Taught
Hist 101. World Civilization to 1500 (3)
Hist 102. World Civilization since 1500 (3)
Hist. 350. Africa in Film and Literature (3)
Hist. 337. History of Sub-Saharan Africa (3)
Hist. 550. History of East Africa (3).
Revised June 25, 2007