Outputs (3)

Kenyan police use excessive force because they’re serving political elites, not the public – policy analyst (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wairuri, K. (2024). Kenyan police use excessive force because they’re serving political elites, not the public – policy analyst. [Blog post]

Public protests in Kenya have often been criminalised, leading to brutal police crackdowns. This played out in recent protests against the cost of living in Kenya, and amid an attempt by the government to introduce new taxes. The police responded wit... Read More about Kenyan police use excessive force because they’re serving political elites, not the public – policy analyst.

Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame (2022)
Digital Artefact
Wairuri, K. (2022). Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame. [Blog post]

Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism (2022)
Book Chapter
Wairuri, K. (2022). Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism. In J.-N. Bach (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of the Horn of Africa (354-366). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429426957-34

This chapter seeks to understand the designation of Kenya as a competitive authoritarian state through an examination of the use of the state police to, as it were, police politics. The use of state security apparatuses to enhance the capacity of the... Read More about Serving the regime: The state police and Kenya's electoral authoritarianism.