Aneesa Kassam obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) in 1984. Her doctoral thesis was on the folktales of the Gabra Oromo of Northern Kenya. She taught at the University of Nairobi (Kenya) for almost a decade from 1982, and from 1993 to 2002 in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham (England, where she is currently an Honorary Research Fellow.
