Kasyoka Mwanzia

Kasyoka is a PhD Candidate in the department of Cultural Anthropology. She is examining the techno-cultures of youth in Kenya with a focus on the play and design of video games. By engaging with the societal and structural dynamics surrounding leisure, learning, and labour, she is thinking about the place specific cultural encounters with contemporary digital technologies within a networked and globalized system.

Kasyoka holds a B.A. Graphic Design from Concordia University, Wisconsin and Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design; and an M.A. in Media Arts Cultures from the Erasmus Mundus joint consortium of Danube University, Austria; Aalborg University, Denmark; and City University, Hong Kong. Kasyoka’s interests prioritise work from and of the global south and is a co-convener of an FHI grad working group on African Thought and Media, and OGA grad working group on ethics of technology in the global south.