Ambreena Manji is Professor of Land Law and Development at Cardiff University. Before that, she was Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

Her research is in African Law and Society. It is strongly interdisciplinary and includes work on law in African literature, African history, legal education, and women and the law.

Ambreena is the author of The Struggle for Land and Justice in Modern Kenya (2020) and is completing her book The Land Struggles of Indigenous People: Recovering Kenya.

She has held academic posts at the Universities of Warwick and Keele. She has been a visiting fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town and at Dar es Salaam Law School; a Global Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School; and Dame Lillian Penson Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.

Ambreena served as President of the African Studies Association UK from 2018 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2025 she was co-editor of African Affairs, the top-ranked journal in African Studies. She is a Full Adjunct Professor of Public Law at Kabarak Law School and a Visiting Full Professor at the Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin. She was Director of the 2026 Feminist Institute of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal. In November 2026 she becomes President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa.

She was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2020, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and of the Royal Historical Society in 2024.

Dr Rosemary Mwanza is Head of Department at the African Centre for Governance, Leadership and Ethics (ACGLE) and Senior Lecturer at Kabarak University School of Law. Before joining Kabarak University, she was a Research Fellow at Stockholm University, Sweden, and previously taught law at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.

Her research lies at the intersection of environmental law, human rights and corporate accountability, with a particular focus on Africa.

Dr Mwanza holds a Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) from the University of Eastern Finland, where she received the Primus Doctor distinction and the Faculty Young Researcher Award. She also holds an LL.M. from the University of Southern California and an LL.B. from the University of Nairobi. She is admitted to the New York Bar.

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