Dr David Kerr

Senior Research Associate
Name: David Kerrr
CERT Staff, Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education  Staff Members

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About Dr David Kerr

Dr David Kerr from African Studies at Oxford University has joined CERT  as Senior Research Associate for 3 years, from 2025 – 2028. Dr Kerr’s research aligns with CERT’s focus area in popular culture and decolonial public pedagogy in Africa. Dr Kerr is head of programmes of AfOx (Africa Oxford Initiative). His PhD thesis completed in 2014 at the University of Birmingham was titled Performing the self: rappers,  urban  space  and identity in  Dar  es  Salaam,  .and his post doc research was on street performances in Tanzania. His publications include: Kerr, D., 2021. Rapping, Imagination, and   Urban  Space   in  Dar   es  Salaam.   Youth  and  Popular   Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics, pp.63-87 ; . Kerr, D., 2018. From the margins to the mainstream: making and remaking an alternative music economy in Dar es Salaam. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30(1), pp.65-80.