Virtual Affiliate Program

The Virtual Affiliate Program provides the opportunity for Africa-based scholars to establish a formal relationship with KASC. Each academic year, KASC invites faculty from African universities to apply to the program. A subcommittee of the KASC Executive Committee meets to review applications and to select affiliates. Successful applicants receive official KU status as an Adjunct Researcher in KASC, which grants them remote access to KU Libraries and other digital resources at KU.

KASC is pleased to announce the new group of Virtual Affiliates for AY 2025-2026. Click on a name to learn more about the work of our colleagues. kasc@ku.edu. 

• Tolulope Osayomi, Department of Geography, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
• Pamela Muhadia Ngugi, Department of Kiswahili and African Languages, Kenyatta University, Kenya
• Nkiruka Jacinta Akaenyi, Department of Performing Arts, Akwa Ibom State University, Nigeria
• Yvonne Otubea Otchere, CEO of PsycCare Consult Ghana
• Aphiwe Mhlangulana, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
• Olufemi Timothy Ogunbode, Department of History, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria
• Taofik Olasunkanmi Adesanmi, Department of English, Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo, Nigeria
• Stephen Phiri, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jackson Juma Coy, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• Shaheen Ashraf Kagee, Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Mulikah Adeyemi Lawal, Department of English, University of Lagos,Nigeria
• Adeolu Oluwaseyi Oyekan, Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• Addamms Songe Mututa, Department of Communication and Media, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Previous Fellows

• Senayon Olaoluwa, Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (SPR 2025)
• Segun Adefila (AUT 2024)
• Imani Sanga, Department of Creative Arts, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (SPR 2024)
• Ismahan Soukeyna Diop, Department of Psychology, Université Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal (AUT 2023)
• Puleng Segalo, Department of Psychology, University of South Africa, South Africa (SPR 2023)
• Alhaji U. N’jai, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone (AUT 2022)
• Everlyne Chepkemoi Nyangwaria Rotich, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Moi University, Kenya (SPR 2022)
• Peter Ndirangu Karimi, Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice, University of Nairobi, Kenya (AUT 2021)