Bettina Ng’weno, is an Associate Professor and award-winning teacher in African American and African Studies at the University of California, Davis, where she is affiliated with the Graduate Groups in anthropology, geography and cultural studies. Trained as an anthropologist at Stanford and Johns Hopkins University and with a foundation in agricultural science and management at UC Davis, her research and teaching interests include space, property, social justice, citizenship, cities, states, race and ethnicity within Latin America, Africa and the Indian Ocean region. She was previously co-director of the Mellon Research Initiative Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds at the University of California, Davis. Her books include: Turf Wars, Citizenship and Territory in the Contemporary State (Stanford) focused on Colombia; and the edited volumes Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Routledge) on the Indian Ocean region, and Developing Global Leaders: Insights from African Case Studies (Palgrave) focused on Africa. Working from personal, familial, ethnographic and archival history and experience, her current book (No Place Like Home in the New City) and creative film (Last Dance in Kaloleni) project, focused on the capital of Kenya, brings to life a Nairobi centered on the Railways, the dreams and aspirations of long-term residents, and the complicated spatial and temporal dynamics of the city.