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National Pedagogic University (UPN), Ciudad de México

• Mexico
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Associate Professor

  • Dec 2018 - Present

  SHORT BIOGRAPHY Patience Kabamba is a Congolese lecturer and author of Parity and not Charity: Constructing Africans as Subjects of History. He has Masters degrees in philosophy from Paris and Leuven, in economic development from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Kabamba taught at the University of Johannesburg and Marymount Manhattan College. He was a UNDP consultant in Kinshasa on issues of proliferation of small… Show more SHORT BIOGRAPHY Patience Kabamba is a Congolese lecturer and author of Parity and not Charity: Constructing Africans as Subjects of History. He has Masters degrees in philosophy from Paris and Leuven, in economic development from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Kabamba taught at the University of Johannesburg and Marymount Manhattan College. He was a UNDP consultant in Kinshasa on issues of proliferation of small arms and light weapons and worked as a counselor of prisoners and single mothers in Cameroon, DRC, Chad, Burkina Faso, and France. After running the anthropology program in the department of behavioral science at Utah Valley University, Kabamba is now teaching at the National Pedagogic University of Kinshasa and is also a consultant at USAID on issues of conservation of tropical forest and protection of biodiversity. He has extensive ethnographic experience of emergent social formations when states disintegrate in war-torn Africa: in DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. His theoretical interests include the dynamics of conflict, new state formations, transnational non-state trade networks, ethnicity, and global political and economic governance. He is also working on understanding local structures of power in the Congo in order to make World Bank projects of demand-side accountability feasible. The central question Kabamba is currently taking on is: “what kinds of the international regime, government, and economic organization will help Africans overcome centuries of being at the bottom of a racialized world order?” Show less SHORT BIOGRAPHY Patience Kabamba is a Congolese lecturer and author of Parity and not Charity: Constructing Africans as Subjects of History. He has Masters degrees in philosophy from Paris and Leuven, in economic development from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Kabamba taught at the University of Johannesburg and Marymount Manhattan College. He was a UNDP consultant in Kinshasa on issues of proliferation of small… Show more SHORT BIOGRAPHY Patience Kabamba is a Congolese lecturer and author of Parity and not Charity: Constructing Africans as Subjects of History. He has Masters degrees in philosophy from Paris and Leuven, in economic development from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Kabamba taught at the University of Johannesburg and Marymount Manhattan College. He was a UNDP consultant in Kinshasa on issues of proliferation of small arms and light weapons and worked as a counselor of prisoners and single mothers in Cameroon, DRC, Chad, Burkina Faso, and France. After running the anthropology program in the department of behavioral science at Utah Valley University, Kabamba is now teaching at the National Pedagogic University of Kinshasa and is also a consultant at USAID on issues of conservation of tropical forest and protection of biodiversity. He has extensive ethnographic experience of emergent social formations when states disintegrate in war-torn Africa: in DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. His theoretical interests include the dynamics of conflict, new state formations, transnational non-state trade networks, ethnicity, and global political and economic governance. He is also working on understanding local structures of power in the Congo in order to make World Bank projects of demand-side accountability feasible. The central question Kabamba is currently taking on is: “what kinds of the international regime, government, and economic organization will help Africans overcome centuries of being at the bottom of a racialized world order?” Show less



Utah Valley University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Anthropology Professor

  • 2015 - Dec 2018



University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• visiting fellow

  • Jan 2014 - Dec 2018



University of Johannesburg

• South Africa
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Lecturer

  • Jan 2010 - Aug 2012