Mr. Stanley Elias Kiswaga
Assistant Lecturer
Office: Literature Department/ 122
Stanley Elias Kiswaga holds a BA in Education from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, an MA in Literary and Cultural Studies from Airlangga University, Indonesia, and an MPhil in Social Studies from Makerere University, Uganda. Mr. Kiswaga is currently a PhD fellow at the Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, and he is writing his doctoral dissertation titled “Theatre for Development and the Nation: Rethinking Nation-Building in Post-Socialist Tanzania.” In this project, he aims to explore the dynamics and complexities of mobilizing bottom-up nation-building efforts from both state and non-state actors in the evolving context of post-socialist Tanzania. In the future, Mr. Kiswaga plans to study the relationship between political culture and the ways in which people develop aesthetic strategies to navigate and access public spaces in Africa. His main research interests fall within cultural and political studies.