Director of Students Affairs
Department: 
History, Archeology And Political Studies
Contact Address: 
P.O. Box 43844-00100 Kenyatta University
Position: Chairperson
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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Articles in Referred Journals

  • Wangari Mwai, Edwin Gimode and C. Kabaya(2015): Reading the Story of Jesus Christ as an Epic in Cultural and Religious Studies,3, No 4: Libertyville, USA, David Publishing Company ISSN2328-2177, pg. 217-226.                                                                  
  • Edwin Gimode (2003): “The Report on Devil Workshop in Kenya in the 1990s: A Critique”, in A Temple and D.Waruta (eds), Africa Challenge:  All         Africa Journal of Theology.  1, No. 2 Nairobi: AACC, pp. 96-105.
  • Edwin Gimode(2001) :“An Anatomy of Violent Crime and insecurity in Kenya:  The Case of Nairobi.1985 – 1999”.  In Felicia Oyekanmi (ed.), Africa Development Vol. xxvi,and 2 Dakar: CODESRIA, pp.    295-336., ISSN 0850 3907).

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • Edwin Gimode 2020: ‘Kenya’s Brush with the Terrorist Scourge and Implications for National and Regional Security:Playing Proxy and Paying Collateral Damage,1976-2002,’ in Amutabi,M.N.and L.H.Henry (eds.) Diversity and Sustainable Development in Africa,pp.272-284.
  • Edwin Gimode 2004:  Globalization, Islam and Social Policy in Kenya, in  Globalization and Social           Policy in Africa, edited by Tade Aina et al.  CODESRIA Dakar 2004, ISBN 2- 86978-   130X
  • Edwin Gimode 2007:        The Role of the Police in Kenya’s Democratization Process, in Kenya: The Struggle for Democracy, edited by Godwin Murunga and Shadrack Nasongo, Zed Publishers, London and New York  2007, ISBN 978 – 1- 84277-87-6

  BOOKS:

  • 1996: Edwin Gimode. Tom Mboya: A Biography, East Africa Educational Publishers, Nairobi edited by Simiyu Wandibba ISBN 9966-46-4658

Conferences, Workshops, Public Lectures and Institutes

Presentation of papers at Academic Conferences 

  • Oct 29,30 2020:Presented paper at the10th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference, Nairobi: ‘Kenya’s Brush with the Terrorist Scourge on National and Regional Security: Playing Proxy and Paying Collateral Damage,1976-2002’.
  • Jan 24,2020:Presented two papers at the Dept. of History Archaeology and Political Studies, being part of the Departmental Seminar Series-
  1. Kenya: the Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic State’
  2. The Scourge of Contemporary Terrorism in Kenya as Collateral Damage on Behalf of the West.
  • Nov 25- Dec 18, 2019: Served as an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility Exchange Academic Staff, at National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary. Delivered two papers:
  1. Kenya: A Historical Evolution of a Multi-Ethnic State,1963-2015
  2. The Scourge of Contemporary Terrorism in Kenya: Paying Collateral Damage for Association with the West
  • Nov (18th –21st) 2006:     Attended Annual Conference of the  American Academy of Religion  (Washington D.C) and presented paper   entitled:  “Religion in Public Affairs: The Role of the Church in the Struggle for  Democracy and a New Constitutional  Order in Kenya”
  • April 19-22, 2001:     “The Evolution of An Assertive  Kenyan Ummah in the Late Twentieth – Early  Twenty –First Century”–a paper presented at The Islamic                                  Conference  on Africa at The Institute of Global  Cultural Studies (IGCS) Binghamton  University, New York.
  •  September 2000:       Towards Wholesome Culture in Kenya: A  Critique of Current Cultural Trends”.Being a  paper read at the Kenyatta University Culture                                       Week Seminars September 18 – 20, 2000.         
  •  September 1999:       “The West    and the Rest of Us:  Some Reflections   on the Concept and Process of          Globalisation”     Being a paper read at The Kenyatta University  Culture Week.
  • December 1998:    “Globalisation, Islam and Social Policy in   Kenya”, a paper presented at CODESRIA’s   9th General Assembly,  Dakar, Senegal, being preliminary findings of the Multi-  National Working Group project on Globalization and Social Policy in Africa  (later published in 2004)
  • August-September 1998:   Attended the Governance Institute in  Dakar, Senegal, sponsored by CODESRIA.
  • Presented a paper entitled: An Anatomy of Violent Crime and   Insecurity  in Kenya: The Case        of Nairobi, 1985-  1999”.(Later published in 2001)                                                                
  • March 1997:   “The Itinerary of Structural –Functionalism In Western Social Thought”,KUSP/1997/8, Staff     Seminar.
  • December 1996 :        Attempts at Economic Integration in East  Africa: Memories, Problems and Prospects”,   being  a paper read at The Historical Association  of Kenya Symposium, December 6th-8th, at  Kenyatta University.
  • August 1995   “International Economics and the Survival of  the Humanities: the Case of History”, being a  paper read at the Historical Association of Kenya . Symposium on August 5-6, at Egerton University.
  • June 1992  “Western Stereotypes on African Culture” being  a Kenyatta University     paper, Department of    History.

Public Lecture

  • 13, 2006 :“Church Leadership and the Politics of Opportunism in Kenya”, a Public lecturer delivered at the Joe Rosenfield Centre on      the Grinnell College Campus, Iowa State, U.S.A. – 1978”.

Convening and Cordinating Seminars     

  • Convened and coordinated the Seminars during the Kenyatta University Culture Week, 1999

Chairperson

Dr. Edwin Atianyi Gimode

Dr. Edwin Atianyi Gimode
Chairman
History, Archeology, and Political Studies

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