{"id":23812,"date":"2020-10-21T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T13:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/?p=23812"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:45:06","slug":"prof-david-sperling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/en_gb\/prof-david-sperling\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. David Sperling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column 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class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-0 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\"fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none cv-faculty-page-image-title\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" title=\"David-Sperling\" src=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling.png\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling.png\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-23813\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27640%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20640%20640%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27640%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/sbs.strathmore.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/David-Sperling.png 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-1 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 cv-faculty-page-image-title\"><p><strong>Prof. David Sperling<\/strong><br \/>\nResearch Professor<br \/>\nStrathmore University<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling cv-faculty-page-block\" style=\"--awb-border-sizes-top:1px;--awb-border-sizes-left:1px;--awb-border-color:#a7353a;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:40px;--awb-padding-right:40px;--awb-padding-bottom:40px;--awb-padding-left:40px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 cv-faculty-page-block-t1\"><p><strong>Prof. David Sperling is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Prof. David C. Sperling has been teaching in Kenyan universities since 1989, first at the University of Nairobi and since 2001 at Strathmore University where he is currently Research Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Strathmore Governance Centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sperling has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, and at the Harry Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the founding Director of the Utawala Applied Research Institute which undertakes extensive fieldwork and data analysis in the Counties of Kenya, identifying development priorities and potential, and investment opportunities, including public-private partnerships. He is the Managing Trustee of the Rahimtulla Trust, the largest charitable family Trust in Kenya, and has been a member of the Regional (East Africa) Committee of the Aga Khan Foundation since 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Sperling teaches courses on law and development in the Strathmore Law School and leadership, public policy and governance in the Institute of Public Policy and Governance of Strathmore University. He is a naturalized Kenya citizen.<\/p>\n<h3>Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIslamization in the Coastal Region of Kenya to the end of the Nineteenth Century\u201d, in B.A. Ogot (ed),\u00a0<em>Kenya in the 19th Century<\/em>\u00a0(Hadith 8, Historical Association of Kenya), Nairobi, 1985<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSurvey of Islamic Manuscripts in Kenya\u201d (with A.S. Nabhany and Y.A. Omar), in\u00a0<em>International Survey of Islamic Manuscripts<\/em>, Vol. 2, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1993<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRural Madrasas of the southern Kenya coast, 1971-1992\u201d, in L. Brenner (ed),\u00a0<em>Muslim Identity and Social Change in sub-Saharan Africa<\/em>, C. Hurst &amp; Co., London, 1993<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSurvey of Islamic Manuscripts in the Comore Islands\u201d (with A.S. Nabhany) in\u00a0<em>International Survey of Islamic Manuscripts<\/em>, Vol. 3, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1994<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Frontiers of Prophecy: healing, the cosmos and Islam on the East African coast in the 19th century\u201d, in D. Anderson and D. Johnson (eds),\u00a0<em>Revealing Prophets<\/em>, James Currey \/Indiana University Press, London, 1995<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIslam: Eastern Africa\u201d in John Middleton (ed),\u00a0<em>Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara<\/em>, Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, New York, 1997<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Coastal Hinterland and Interior of East Africa\u201d in N. Levtzion and R.L. Pouwels (eds)\u00a0<em>The History of Islam in Africa<\/em>, Ohio University Press, Athens, 2000<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReligion and Society\u201d in D. Foeken, J. Hoorweg &amp; R. Obudho (eds),\u00a0<em>The Kenya Coast: Problems and Perspectives<\/em>, Litverlag, Hamburg, 2000<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Politics and the Common Good&#8221; in L. Franceschi (ed),\u00a0<em>Politics and Ethics<\/em>, Nairobi, Kenya, Law Society of Kenya, 2006<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Mijikenda and Islam\u201d in Oxford University Islamic Studies Online (May 2012)<\/li>\n<li><em>Public Participation Handbook: Engaging the Public for Equitable Development<\/em>\u00a0(together with Michel Adjibodou), Cedia Africa Publishing, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p><strong>Contact Prof. David Sperling:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:dsperling@strathmore.edu\">dsperling@strathmore.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Professor at<br \/>\nStrathmore University<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-members"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.2.1 (Yoast SEO v27.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Prof. David Sperling - Strathmore University Business School<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prof. David Sperling is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University, and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 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