Simon Kipyegon Cherutich is a Principal Deputy Director Security at the University of Nairobi, a PhD student in Armed Conflict & Peace Studies in the department. He holds a Masters Degree in Peace & Conflict Management from Kenyatta University. His research interest is in the use of Alternative dispute resolution in the management of Conflict.

October 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the declaration of State of Emergency in Kenya by the colonial government. The declaration followed from the need to crush the rise of an armed Mau Mau movement, an anti-colonial struggle in the colony’s central and Rift valley regions. The declaration allowed the colonial government to respond heavy-handedly. It legitimatized the ban on Mau Mau and mass detention of suspects and sympathisers.

Dr. Misigo Amatsimbi and David Masika teach history at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Nairobi. They have published a number of articles and book chapters in social history of Kenya.