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Kamau Wairuri

@kamauwairuri.bsky.social
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Caffeine-dependent Kenyan Scholar. Lecturer in Criminology @Edinburghnapier| Podcaster: @TheKenyanist. Politics & Policy. Views my own.

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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Troubling findings: Most helmets in Kenya are counterfeits, meaning that they will not protect riders and pilon passengers in the event of an accident. We're tragically losing 5 people per day to boda boda accidents in Kenya. A tragic failure of enforcement. www.the-star.co.ke/health/2025-...
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Most Boda helmets cannot save your head – study
Select helmets from Kenya were subjected to international crash simulations. None passed a single test.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"... citizens want more than just the right to vote. They want to shape decisions, hold leaders accountable, and co-create solutions to the challenges they face. Participation is not a luxury. " Parliaments are crucial to saving democracy in Africa.
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60% of Africans don’t believe democracy is working in their interests – how parliaments can fix the problem
Parliaments can rescue democracy by encouraging engagement and genuine public participation.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
HIV is not just a young people's issue. Older people are getting infected as well raising important issues that need to be addressed. This recent research, comparing Kenya and South Africa, offers a good starting point for programmatic considerations.
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HIV is on the rise among older Africans, but care and research overlook this group – lessons from Kenya and South Africa
Ageing with HIV is now a global public health reality, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, and the response must evolve to reflect that.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships www.mpg.de/24856593/dis...
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Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships
The Law & Anthropology Department offers writing-up fellowships to enable doctoral candidates in the final stage of their programme to spend up to 4 months at the Institute to take advantage of its…
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
My latest piece with @SJCK_Sheff explores the politics of data within the contest of police abuse in Kenya and South Africa. We adopted the concept of complaint biography from Sara Ahmed to help us frame our analysis. Find more about our analysis here: shorturl.at/pYuGS
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Does data count? The politics of complaint, data and police accountability. | South African Crime Quarterly
This academic peer-reviewed journal is an open access journal for policy makers, practitioners, and the research community, on crime and related issues in South Africa.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Sobering read about the sexual violence that’s happened in Ethiopia in the context of the conflict in northern Tigray. It highlights perpetrators, limited support structures and how the last of accountability fuels retaliatory attacks. #SRHR #SGBV www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/07...
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Silence over sexual violence in Ethiopia enables yet more abuse, says report
The failure to hold perpetrators to account has fueled revenge attacks.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
It’s disheartening when Africans are invited over and over again to contribute to science, but then get left out of the benefits. This really feeds distrust of science. Tragic.
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Tested in Africa, used in America
The process for translating clinical trial results into action for young women in Africa has been left to our imaginations, write Mark Siedner and Rochelle Walensky.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Scoping review finds that criminalisation of drugs increases dependence. www.drugscience.org.uk/does-drug-cr...
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Does drug criminalisation increase harmful drug use? A scoping review of underlying mechanisms
This article discusses how unintended side effects from the international regime of drug criminalization may serve to increase harmful drug use among some population segments and performs systematic…
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I have a new piece in The Conversation Africa examining police brutality in Kenya and how we can start to address it. theconversation.com/kenyas-polic...
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Kenya’s police still kill with impunity – what needs to be done to stop them
Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
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NPR @npr.org · 12/04/2025
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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Mental health workers go on hunger strike, demanding better pay and benefits
After months of striking, some therapists with Kaiser Permanente stopped eating for five days to bring attention to their union's demands for parity with how the company's other workers are treated.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 12/04/2025
How are we supposed to get robots to screw little screws in automated domestic manufacturing plants if we exclude all the stuff made with little screws from the tariffs? Also, isn't it nice how tech billionaires can get exceptions for their stuff?
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Peer reviewer: This manuscript feels long for this journal. The author should ensure it is within the limits. Also peer reviewer: Consider this half a million points, 100 other sources, give more examples to support your argument and say more about those interviews. 😳😳😳
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
OXFORD FELLOWSHIP FOR AFRICAN SCHOLARS The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme offers the opportunity to develop collaborations between African researchers and researchers in Oxford. Applications now open for the 2025/26 AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme. www.afox.ox.ac.uk/afox-visitin...
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AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme | afox
The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is designed to allow exceptional African researchers to build international networks and focus on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based…
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Some statistics on shop lifting in the UK: £2bn worth of loss in one year, in 20.4m recorded incidents. #CrimeStatistics
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Kenya has over 800k registered refugees, the vast majority of whom (57%) are from Somalia.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The exit of USAID creates an opportunity for China to gain more influence in Africa, but Chinese Aid is no simple substitute. China is more focused on trade and infrastructure while USAID supported a lot of health and humanitarian interventions. America's cheque is also bigger. buff.ly/byzChdq
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Drugs are still winning the war on drugs. According to the UNODC, drugs are more available, stronger, and more diverse than ever. See a snapshot of the highlights from the World Drugs Report. Sobering statistics.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
There is some funding available for authors of accepted papers to attend the 2025 DSA Conference. Follow this link: buff.ly/4k1377W
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Glad that our panel on ‘Youth and protests in Africa’ has been accepted for the 2025 Development Studies Association conference. The call for papers is open now. Please send in your papers!
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Scaled up to the 4th floor last week Friday! Happy for all the blessings in my life … especially the miracle of friendship! Now let life begin …
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Scottish Institute for Policing Research @the-sipr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We're looking for a communications & engagement officer to join us. We're interested in people with experience in events, creating digital content and/ or publications. Applications close 1 Dec with interviews on 12 Dec Full info & application here jobs.napier.ac.uk/mthrprod_web... Please share!!!
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Guest lecturing at Strathclyde today on the policing of poor, young men in Kenya.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We have slid 17 places in the ease of travel rankings, to number 46 out of 54 countries in Africa. … because we like running stupid experiments (na kifua), and end up shooting ourselves in the foot.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 25/11/2024
Last week, Kenyan President William Ruto canceled a procurement process that had been expected to award control of the country's main airport to Adani reut.rs/3Zlbdjv 6/10
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Kenya drops over $2.5 billion of Adani deals after US indictment
Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of the country's main airport to India's Adani Group after its founder was indicted in the United States.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Evidently, Kenya is no longer a place to seek refuge.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
“Unfortunately for Ruto, Kenya has changed and will not wait for him to exorcise these ghosts. It is astonishing how much legitimacy he has hemorrhaged in just over two years.” ~ Prof Ken Opalo www.standardmedia.co.ke/ken-opalo/ar...
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Why is everything around President Ruto falling apart?
Most of Ruto's senior advisers are little more than recycled failed politicians. The same goes for the hordes of appointments to various state institutions.
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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 23/11/2024
The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said: "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The audiobook debate is remarkably narrow. Reading aloud was a group activity for centuries and I actually argue that people who struggle with classic lit should try an audiobook as it was likely that the original audience enjoyed it aloud.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 23/11/2024
Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X www.ft.com/content/e1b52147-c171-49…
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Meta loses ground to Bluesky as users abandon Elon Musk’s X
Social media giant’s Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It’s been a terrible day weather-wise, but my day has been brightened by a chance encounter with Jeremy Corbyn. We talked briefly about the work he’s done to support the pursuit of justice by Mau Mau veterans and also the release of political prisoners in post-independence Kenya. I thanked him.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Moses Kuria was de-platformed by a pastor who just started singing the hymn: ‘What a friend we have in Jesus.’ Resistance comes in many forms!
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m grateful to my PhD supervisor for leading me to accepting that …
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Being Reese @beingreese.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading. Audiobooks count as reading.
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Kathy Dodworth @dodgington.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A year ago I did podcast w/ @kamauwairuri.bsky.social on community health labour. I re-listened and remain proud (especially as nervous speaker!). It didn’t get huge amount of play so if interested in community health, Kenya or voluntary labour give it a listen! www.thekenyanist.com/dispossessio...
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Dispossession and voluntarism: The dynamics of Community Health Work in Kenya
In a past episode of the Kenyanist, we talked about reforming the NHIF, which the government has recently undertaken to improve healthcare delivery. We also heard a…
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In Kenya, he’s white as snow.
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Well, if the shoe fits …
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Kamau Wairuri @kamauwairuri.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In which I reflect on how we’re often missing the mark in our policy making. We seem to know our problems, but fail to conduct deep analysis into them to understand the drivers. We propose and adopt solutions that we’ve not evaluated well. www.theelephant.info/opinion/2024...
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KAMAU WAIRURI - To Move Forward as a Country, We Must Take Policy-Making Seriously - The Elephant
Doing policy work is hard. It requires solid analysis, the inclusion of the voices of multiple stakeholders and a confident leadership.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Twitter is not a town hall. It’s not a public space. If you still enjoy it by all means stay but if you no longer enjoy it or if you no longer feel safe there just leave. Why are you jeopardising your peace of mind to make a point to a billionaire who doesn’t care and profits from your misery?
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