"Africa's New Authoritarians"

David Anderson is Professor of African History at Warwick.  He first visited Keele World Affairs when he held a similar post at Oxford.

He first studied History at the University of Sussex, leading to doctoral studies and a Research Fellowship at Cambridge, then Lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, and later Director of the Centre for African Studies in the University of London (1997–2001).

His research interests have remained focused upon eastern and central Africa, but his published work has ranged across a wide variety of topics, from histories of environmental change to current analysis of political violence.

His involvement in the High Court case brought against the British government by four Mau Mau veterans has resulted in the publication of important articles in 2012, focusing on the subject of torture and abuse under British rule in Kenya.  He is engaged in a many other studies within the region.

David is founder of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.