Dr Kennedy Gitu
ACTING COUNTRY DIRECTOR
Gitu is a historian with a background in Anthropology and Archaeology. His research interest is in demographic history, pastoral economies, mobility and settlement; resource access, exploitation and conflict. His ongoing projects at the BIEA are on urban herders within the margins of Nairobi city, and on the demographic dynamics and resources conflict in the Amaya Triangle of north Central Kenya. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour. He has worked on many historical, archaeological and anthropological research projects in Eastern Africa, but with a special interest on pastoral economies and landscapes in Kenya. He is at the BIEA on ‘loan’ from the Department of History, Archaeology and Political Studies, Kenyatta University.