What motivated you to work on/write this thesis? The African history class I took while studying abroad in Paris. My professor was very understanding of my hesitant French and my classmates were super engaged. Also, Negritude is very much the marriage of my interests: African politics, French language, and poetry. I walked out of the…
Teresa Paterson -Senior Thesis on the Mau Mau in Colonial Kenya
What motivated you to work on/write a thesis on the Mau mau? For me, I am more passionate about something when I have a personal connection with it and so having friends at Wesleyan who were specifically from Kenya, I had already had conversations with them about living in Kenya and what they felt about…