Biography
Sahle was born to James K. Mugo,a civil servant based in Nairobi,and his wife Esther. [2] [3] her Anglican family was well-off and "had the means to send their six children to boarding schools". [3] She was inspired by her mother's story about the first Black Kenyan student educated at Limuru Girls' School;Sahle later met that student while in college. [3] She attended the University of Toronto,where she got a BA in Political Science and International Development and MA in Political Science,and Queen's University at Kingston,where she got a PhD in Political Studies. [4] Her doctoral dissertation Democratisation in Malawi:State,Economic Structure and Neo-Liberal Hegemony was supervised by Colin Leys. [2]
Sahle became part of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,becoming associate professor in their Department of African,African American and Diaspora Studies. [3] On January 1,2012,she became chair of that department after Julius Nyang'oro resigned amidst the University of North Carolina academic-athletic scandal. [5] She later served until 2016,as well as another term from 2017 to 2021. [4] She is also the chair of UNC Chapel Hill's African Studies Center. [4]
Sahle specializes in the economic and political development of Africa. [3] In 2002,she and David McDonald co-edited The Legacies of Julius Nyerere ,a volume of conference papers on the eponymous Tanzanian statesman. [1] In 2004,she and Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o co-authored a Diogenes article about Hegelianism in Chinua Achebe's work. [6] In 2010,she published World Orders,Development and Transformation,a book on the post-World War II international order. [7] She later edited three volumes on African studies:Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa (2015);Democracy,Constitutionalism,and Politics in Africa (2017);and Human Rights in Africa:Contemporary Debates and Struggles (2019). [8] [9] [10]
Sahle was elected Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences in 2016. [11] She is Anglican,and makes daily visits to Chapel of the Cross,which she said helped "Chapel Hill [start] feeling like home". [3]
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