KRYSTAL STRONG - Between Politics and Activism: Schools and the Rising Generation of African Leaders Introduction by Alan Ruby
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DR. STRONG'S PRESENTATION
Based on ethnographic research in Africa schools for more than a decade, this talk juxtaposes two contexts which are forming a rising generation of African leadership: (1) highly-selective programs and institutions aimed at creating a “leadership pipeline” for gifted, “entrepreneurial” youth; and (2) recent school-based political movements that are, perhaps less intentionally, developing in young people an awareness of their political power. The two contexts—institutionalized leadership initiatives “from above” and grassroots activism “from below”—articulate different political logics, educational praxes and, ultimately, visions of transformation. Both, however, demonstrate the political stakes of schooling and the pedagogical underpinnings of politics for a rising generation of young people in Africa.
Dr. Strong is an assistant professor in the Education, Culture, and Society program, a member of the graduate group in Anthropology, and a faculty affiliate of Africana Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she was named a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, a Spencer Dissertation Fellow, a Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellow, and a University of California Dissertation Fellow. In 2017, she was awarded the Council on Anthropology and Education’s Presidential Early Career Fellowship. Her work has been published in the Journal of African Cultural Studies and Urban Education.
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