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Dr David Kerr
Senior Research Associate
Dr David Kerr from African Studies at Oxford University has joined CERT as Senior Research Associate for 3 years, from 2025 - 2028. Dr Kerr’s research aligns with CERT’s focus area in popular culture and decolonial publi
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Dr David Kerr from African Studies at Oxford University has joined CERT as Senior Research Associate for 3 years, from 2025 - 2028. Dr Kerr’s research aligns with CERT’s focus area in popular culture and decolonial public pedagogy in Africa. Dr Kerr is head of programmes of AfOx (Africa Oxford Initiative). His PhD thesis completed in 2014 at the University of Birmingham was titled Performing the self: rappers, urban space and identity in Dar es Salaam, .and his post doc research was on street performances in Tanzania. His publications include: Kerr, D., 2021. Rapping, Imagination, and Urban Space in Dar es Salaam. Youth and Popular Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics , pp.63-87 ; . Kerr, D., 2018. From the margins to the mainstream: making and remaking an alternative music economy in Dar es Salaam. Journal of African Cultural Studies , 30 (1), pp.65-80.