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Dr. Eliud Biegon

Lecturer, Department of History, Archaeology & Political Studies

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Dr. Eliud Biegon

Lecturer, Department of History, Archaeology & Political Studies

Academic Qualifications

‘Recruitment, Resistance and Memories of the First World War among the Terik of Kenya’. CODESRIA, Afrika Zamani, 2019
‘Land Question in Kenya’s 2017 Elections’ In APN’s Tujenge Amani, 2019
‘Intellectuals and Kenya’s Diplomacy in the Immediate Post-colonial Period’ In Diplomatica 2022. Forthcoming.

Books

Ambler, Charles, Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism, The Central
Region in the Late 19th Century , New Haven, Yale University Press, 1988.
Ochieng’, William, A Pre-colonial History of the Gusii of Western Kenya CAD 1500- 1914, Nairobi, EAEP, 1974.
Kipkorir, Benjamin & Welbourn, Frederick, The Marakwet of Kenya; A Preliminary Study, Nairobi, East African Literature Bureau, 1973.

Book Chapters

  1. ‘Why Academics Deserve Top Honours’ in The Saturday Standard Newspaper, December 23 rd , 2017, Page 22, by Dr. Dancun Omanga and Dr. Eliud Biegon
  2. ‘Intellectual Opposites in Politics and What it Means for 2017 Poll’ By Dr. Duncan Omanga and Dr. Eliud Biegon, published June 17 th , 2017 in The Standard Only Newspaper of Kenya. (https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001243829/intellectual-opposites-in-politics-and-what-it-means-for-2017-poll)
  3. Supreme Court of Kenya Petition II of 2017: a Review, Published on December 5 th , 2017 in The Maroon Square. (https://themaroonsquare.com/about-us)

Conference Papers

  1. Panel Convener: Power Narratives in Kenya’s 2017 Election and Citizen’s Aspiration Beyond the Polls at the Association of African Studies in Africa (ASAA) in United States International University (USIU), Nairobi, Kenya, October 24 th to 26 th, 2019. Presented a paper titled: ‘Urban Politics and Violence in Nairobi’s Informal Settlements’.
  2. Presenter: In the Panel titled: Anth32 Violent Conflict and Urban Governance (CRG Violent Conflict). at the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, July 11 th to 14 th , 2019.
  3. Co-convener (with Professor Benson A. Mulemi of CUEA): Power Narratives in Kenya’s 2017 Election and Citizens Democratic Development Aspirations Beyond the Polls at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (25 th to 26 th June 2019). Presented a paper titled: ‘Congestion Conflicts and Urban Politics; Understanding the 2017 Post-election Violence in Nairobi Slums’.
  4. Historical Linkroads in the making of the Present Kenya: Is it Uhuru at Last?’ - A paper presented at the German Conference on Africa (VAD) at the Johannes Guttenberg University, Mainz, April 6 th -12 th , 2010. Conference Theme: Continuities and Dislocations: 50 years of African Independence .
  5. Fellow-American Political Sciences Association Workshop, 2009 Accra, Ghana: Exploring Rural Politics in Kenya: Change in Voter Behaviour in Aldai Constituency.
  6. Participant-IFRA Summer school 2008, Methodological Training in Social Sciences and Humanities in East Africa, November 27 th Oct-4 th , Arusha, Tanzania: ‘ A History of Voting Patterns in Kenya’s Elections: The Case of Aldai Constituency.
  7. Participant-Historical Association of Kenya, 2008 at Egerton University-‘ Decolonizing Provincial Boundaries in Kenya: Historical Lessons from the 1962-1963 Kalenjin-Luhya Boundary clashes in Aldai and its Implications for the Kenya Nation’.
  8. Laureate-CODESRIA Institute on Democratic Governance, held in Dakar Senegal in August, 2008. Theme: Religion and Politics in Africa
  9. Lynch, Gabrielle, I Say to You, Ethnic Politics and the Kalenjin in Kenya, London, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
  10. Multi-disciplinary Seminar on ‘Reflection on the Works of B.E. Kipkorir’ held at the University of Nairobi (23 rd of August, 2012). Presented a book article review paper titled; Contradictions of Colonial Education: A Critique of B.E. Kipkorir’s Essay on Carey Francis (August 23 rd , 2012).
  11. A paper presented at the 3rd annual international conference on ‘Knowledge management through research and innovative technologies for sustainable socio-economic development,’ August 31st July-4 th , 2007, Moi University, titled; Ethnic indigene and nation building in Kenya: a critical survey of the 1962-1963 Kalenjin-Luhya boundary clashes in Aldai and its implications for the 'new nation’. (http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/13607).