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History Today Piece: Rotting among the tsetse

I’m very glad to say I’ve been published in the History Today magazine – one of Britain’s premier history magazines. Here’s the link to the article, or buy it in all good bookshops! https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/rotting-among-tsetse

Podcast: Detention and Exile during the Kenya Emergency

I was very happy to give a brief presentation to the staff at the Imperial War Museum about detention and exile in Kenya during the Mau Mau Insurgency. It’s a 20 minute presentation so feel free to give it a listen. I’ve uploaded it here. Enjoy!

The International Far-Right and White Supremacy in UDI-era Zimbabwe, 1965-1979

This time I’ve ventured beyond Kenya, to a project I worked on during my Masters, with a blog for Warwick’s Global History and Culture Centre. Hope you find it interesting! https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/blog/the_international_far-right/

‘The Trouble with The English’: Mau Mau’s Place in The Present Debate about Imperial Legacies

Very happy to announce that an article of mine has kicked off the 2021 series over on the Scottish Centre for Global History’s website! Here’s the link: ‘The Trouble with The English’: Mau Mau’s Place in The Present Debate about Imperial Legacies

Between Mau Mau and Home Guard

Have a read of my article on the Imperial War Museum’s Research Blog: https://blogs.iwm.org.uk/research/2020/11/between-mau-mau-and-home-guard-intertwining-voices-mau-mau-uprising-iwms-archive

Provincialising Democracy: Viewing the 2020 American Election through a Kenyan lens

‘On Friday 28th December, Odinga was leading by nearly 900,000 votes, with half the ballots counted. With parliamentary results suggesting he had swept the country, victory seemed assured. However, during Saturday, Kibaki clawed back his position. At midday, ECK reports suggested Odinga was 300,000 votes ahead of Kibaki. By 2 P.M the gap was downContinue reading “Provincialising Democracy: Viewing the 2020 American Election through a Kenyan lens”

Histories of the Hanged, Histories of the Living: Kenyatta’s Mashujaa Day Speech and the politics of Kenyan national unity

National politics always draws in historical debate, particularly when new identities are forged in the wake of major changes. Consider only how in the wake of Brexit populist appeals to nationalist unity against the continental foe were peppered with references to the ‘Dunkirk spirit’ and the Blitz. Histories and heritages are hereby consistently rewritten, inContinue reading “Histories of the Hanged, Histories of the Living: Kenyatta’s Mashujaa Day Speech and the politics of Kenyan national unity”