Tabitha Kanogo

Education and career Kanogo earned her PhD at the University of Nairobi.

Works Kanogo’s work has been situated within major historiographical discussions of colonial Kenya, with a use of archival sources showing how colonial rule reshaped social institutions affecting women’s lives.

African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950 (2005) In African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900–1950, Kanogo examines women’s lives and changing social institutions under colonial rule in Kenya, including the relationship between formal legal regimes and customary practices.

Wangari Maathai (2020) Kanogo authored Wangari Maathai for the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series. This biography has been characterized as accessible, with an interpretive depth about Maathai’s public life and contradictions.