Kai Kresse

Kai Kresse is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and Vice-Director for Research at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). His books include Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (2007), shortlisted for the ASA Herskovits Award, and Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience (2019).

Kai Kresse is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin, and Vice-Director for Research at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). His books include Philosophising in Mombasa: Knowledge, Islam, and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast (2007), shortlisted for the ASA Herskovits Award, and Swahili Muslim Publics and Postcolonial Experience (2019). See less