Opolot Okia

Biography

Education History: West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia Ph.D., 2002 African History, with emphasis on Modern East Africa (colonial) Secondary fields are trans-Atlantic slave trade, African Development Ohio University, Athens, Ohio M.A. 1992 African Studies Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama B.A., March 1990 History

Research Interest

Research statement: Scholarly Books Communal Labor in Colonial Kenya: The Legitimization of Coercion, 1912-1930 (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012) Refereed Journal Articles “The Windmill of Slavery: The British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society and Bonded Labor in East Africa”