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Research Article: The life and death of old-age social security in late-colonial Kenya
Please give my most recent journal article, in the Journal of Eastern African Studies, a read! The output of our “Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts” project and a talk I gave at the British Institute in Eastern Africa back in September. The paper describes how late-colonial Kenya saw intense debates over social security, as the…
Research Article: “Blackshirts” and “Blacklists”: The Politics of Late-Colonial Central Kenya, 1958–1963
Very excited to announce the publication of my latest article – the last in a trilogy about local politics in Nyeri District in the years surrounding Kenyan independence. I’m very grateful to Itinerario, and especially Drs Tim Livsey and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo for putting together this Special Edition re-evaluating the notion of “late-colonialism”. The article…
Research Article: Resurrecting the African Independent Pentecostal Church: Land, Education, and the Politics of Reconciliation during Kenya’s Decolonisation, 1952–69
Very happy to see my latest article published with the Journal of African History, the second in what will be a trilogy of articles on the legacy of Mau Mau and local politics in Central Kenya. In this article, I take a look at the African Independent Pentecostal Church, the religious arm and an inheritor…
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Histories of Kenya, Histories of Empire 