Dr. Babere Chacha Profile

   Name of Staff: Babere Kerata Chacha

   Designation/Rank: Senior Lecturer/Coordinator History Programmes

   Department: Social Studies

   School: Humanities and Development Studies

   Email: bchacha@laikipia.ac.ke

      

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

A   Educational Background/Qualification

  1. PhD in African Economic/environmental History, Egerton University Kenya (2011)
  2. Master of Arts in History (Agricultural History), Egerton University, Kenya (2000)
  3. Bachelor of Arts with Education, University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, Kenya

B    Brief Auto-biography of the Faculty/Staff

Babere Kerata Chacha is a Senior Lecturer in African History and the Chairperson of the Department of Social Studies at Laikipia University in Kenya. He has an MA in History and a PhD in African History, both from Egerton University. He is a former Director of External Linkages and the founder and coordinator of the Centre for Human Rights at Laikipia University. Chacha has been a fellow School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Junior Fellow of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford; Fellow of Wolfson College Cambridge; Global fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia and more recently honoured by the University of Cape Town with a Sarah Bartmann Award for the year 2022 for excellence in teaching African women history. He has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer in history and development studies at the University of Eastern Africa, Baraton, and Egerton University. Chacha has also been engaged in designing curriculum for Police Science, and Military History at the Kenya Military Academy in Lanet. His main research interests include political assassinations and human rights, but he also has wide interests in environment, gender, education, reconciliation, religion, and sexuality. He consulted for the TJRC in Kenya on political assassinations. He spearheaded the launch of the police science programme and the study of human rights as a common core course at Laikipia University.

C   Areas of Specialization

African History /Agricultural History/Environmental History

D  Research Interest

Gender, Politics, Sexuality, Religion, And Human Rights

E   All Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Fancy Chepkoech Sitonik, Peter Waweru Wagura, and Babere Kerata Chacha “Taaitta Arap Toweett: A Life of Social and Political Influence (1925-2007)” in the Journal of History and Geography, Vol 3 No 1 (2024) https://journals.eanso.org/index.php/ajhg/article/view/2403
  2. Geoffrey Masinde Wanyonyi and Babere Kerata Chacha, "Of Gay Struggle and Resistance in Africa: Contesting Queer Politics in Kenya and Uganda," International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI), vol. 11(11), November. 2024. https://ideas.repec.org/a/bjc/journl/v11y2024i11p334-349.html
  3. Babere Kerata Chacha “Repositioning African, Women’s History in the University Curriculum: Gain and Gaps” in Lefem: A Multidisciplinary Journal of Transformation Education: Volume II Number 1, June 2024 Paperback, 2024
  4. Philip K. Chemelil, Babere Kerata Chacha and Waweru Peter, ‘Logging Dividends: The Maasai, Politicians and Timber Extraction in the Mau Forest, 1895-1960’ in Social Science and Humanities Journal, Vol. 08, Issue. 05, 2024. https://sshjournal.com/index.php/sshj/article/download/1050/422/2399
  5. Philip Chemelil, Babere Kerata Chacha and Peter Waweru, “Sacred Ecology of an African Landscape: Evidence from the Mau Forest Complex, 1600-1895” in International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation Vo. X(XII), pp. 621-630, 2024 https://ideas.repec.org/a/bjc/journl/v10y2024i12p621-630.html
  6. Babere Kerata Chacha, ‘Epidemics in African History: A Historiographical Approach’ in CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 5&6, 2023 p. 11 https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/codesriabulletin/article/view/5518
  7. Joel Chacha and Babere Kerata Chacha ‘Kenya Political Campaigns in the Era of Pandemics: William Ruto and Franklin Roosevelt Compared’ in CODESRIA Bulletin, No. 5&6, 2023, p. 73 https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/codesriabulletin/article/view/5529
  8. Godfrey Banda Mayende, Babere Kerata Chacha, and Peter Waweru, “Death and Human Sexuality among the Precolonial Bukusu Community of Western Kenya. c. 1895,” in Global Journal of Arts Humanity and Social Sciences, Vol. 3 No. 5, 2023. Pp. 555-558 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370801165_Global_Journal_of_Arts_Humanity_and_Social_Sciences _Death_and_Human_Sexuality_among_the_Precolonial_Bukusu_Community_of_Western_Kenya_c_1895_BY
  9. Patrick Ogeto B.K Chacha and Kenneth O. Nyangena, ‘Repression and Torture in Kenyan History: Some Theoretical Trajectories’ in Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 10.36347/sjahss.2022.v10i02.001, 2022 https://saspublishers.com/article/4636/
  10. Godfrey Banda Mayende, Babere Kerata Chacha and Peter Waweru ‘Religion and Death Among the Bukusu During the Precolonial Period’ in Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 7, No. 11, 2022 https://east.ac.ke/publications/Religion%20and%20Death%20Among%20the%20Bukusu%20During%20the%20Precolonial%20Period.pdf
  11. John Ndungu Kungu, Thomas Njiru Gichobi Babere Kerata Chacha, The Swynerton Plan and Political Economy Of Land In Kenya: A Historical Perspective’ in International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS) Volume 9 Issue 11, 2022 http://41.89.101.166:8080/handle/123456789/13248
  12. Irene Kangogo Ronoh, Babere Kerata Chacha, Peter Waweru, “Being female in African Politics: Alisen Chelaite through Biographical Lense of Gender and Image Identity”in Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Volume-9, Issue-022021, pp. 204 236 https://saspublishers.com/article/3352/
  13. Charles Karani, Babere Kerata Chacha and Charles O. Choti (2020), “Moi and the Making of the Luyia Nation: The Moses Mudavadi Effect” in EAS Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies Volume-3 Issue-3 May-Jun-2021www.easpublisher.com/get-articles/2136
  14. John Ndungu Kungu, Babere Kerata Chacha and Peter Waweru The carceral colony and entanglement of gender: theorizing women imprisonment in Kenya in European Journal of social sciences studies
  15. John Ndungu Kungu, Babere Kerata Chacha and Peter Waweru Criminal Justice and the Making of Langata Maximum Women Prison, 1960-1965 in International Journal of Innovative Research and Advanced Studies (IJIRAS). http://ir-library.mmarau.ac.ke:8080/handle/123456789/10753
  16. John Ndungu Kungu, Babere Kerata Chacha, Religious Concubinage, Covid-19 and the moral economy of witchcraft In Kenya in European Journal of social sciences studies https://oapub.org/soc/index.php/EJSSS/article/view/858
  17. Onserio Arori Wilfred and Babere Kerata Chacha, Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, “Resistance and Politics of Survival: The Moral Economy of a Tobacco Producing Peasantry in Kenya, 1945” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362996398_Resistance_and_Politics_of_Survival_The_Moral_Economy_of_a_Tobacco_ Producing_Peasantry_in_Kenya_1945-2002
  18. Aldo Deng Akuey, Chacha B. K and Charles O. Choti, “Cabral and the SPLM Revolutionary Dilemma: Toward Theoretical and Conceptual Reflections” in Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, 10, 2019. https://www.academia.edu/82757360/Cabral_and_the_SPLM_Revolutionary_Dilemma_Toward_The oretical_and_Conceptual_Reflections?uc-sb-sw=230584
  19. With John Kingau, ‘Rural Youth Self-Reliance Projects in Kenya-Insights from Nakuru County, Central Rift-Valley’ in Journal of African Research and Development, July 2016 https://www.academia.edu/download/107748317/Kingau_et_al._2016_6_1_all.pdf
  20. James M. Chimera, Babere Kerata Chacha, Eric K. Bor, ‘Security Agencies Organizational Structure and the Implementation of Community Policing’ In Njoro Sub-County, Nakuru, Kenya’ in Journal of Humanities and Social Science, Volume 20, Issue 10, 2015)
  21. Babere Kerata Chacha, “Scars of Memory and Scales of Justice: Rethinking Political Assassinations in Post-colonial Africa” in CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos. 3 & 4, 2015, PP. 94-98 https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=403928990
  22. Babere Kerata Chacha and Peter Waweru, Ekebete Marriage in the Historiography of Pawnship and Female Abduction in East Africa, 1890-1945 in IFRA journal No. 2, 2014 https://journals.openedition.org/eastafrica/353
  23. Yieke, F., Chacha, B., and Nyakwaka, D (2014) The Bologna Process as Lessons on Quality Management of University Education in Kenya. Egerton Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. ISSN 1021-1128 https://laikipia.ac.ke/prof-felicia-yieke-profile
  24. Murenga Babere and Bageni, Social Factors Influencing Educational Attainment Among Muslim Women in Mumias District, Kakamega County, Kenya in BIRJ Vol 3 No.2, 2014 https://laikipia.ac.ke/dr-babere-chacha-profile
  25. Miriam Mwita and Babere Kerata Chacha, “From Dreams to Nightmares: Gangsters, Cultic Movements and The Tribulations of the Kenyan Presidents, 1963-2011, in Baraton Interdisciplinary Research Journal (BIRJ) No.3 Vol. 1, 2013 https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive- files/daniel_branch_kenya_between_hope_and_despair_1book4you.pdf
  26. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Zephanis Muniko, ‘Defining Kenya’s foreign policy in a post-cold war world: the challenges of terrorism’ (ed) Malinda Smith, Securing Africa: Post 9/11 Discourses on Terrorism, Ashgate Publishing Ltd –2010 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315608037-11/kenya-foreign-policy- challenges-terrorism-post-cold-war-babere-kerata-chacha-muniko-zephaniah-marwa
  27. Babere Kerata Chacha, “From Local Conflicts to Global Terrorism: Can Regional Security Problems and Refugees Jeopardise the Renewal of Kenya?" in African Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 1&2, 2004(2006). https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajia/article/view/57216/45604
  28. Babere Kerata Chacha with Kenneth O. Nyangena, “Globalisation of Sex and Problematic of gender Identities in Africa,” in Codesria Bulletin, 2006. https://laikipia.ac.ke/dr-babere-chacha-profile
  29. Babere Kerata Chacha, “The Dynamics of the Ubusino Marriage Among the Kuria of Kenya” in Gendering the Family Fountain Publishers Kampala, 2004 https://laikipia.ac.ke/dr-babere-chacha-profile

 

Book Chapters

  1. Babere Kerata Chacha, Kenneth O. Nyangena, and Charles Okongo Imbiakha,’ The Political Economy of Oil Discovery in Turkana, Kenya: Prospects and Challenges’in Angela Zivo Gapa (ed) The Politics of New African Resource Discoveries in the Post-Curse Era Lexington Books London, 2024. P.135 https://searchworks.stanford.edu/?page=1&per_page=10&q=Cameroon+post.&search_field=searc h_title&sort=year-desc
  2. Njoki Nathani Wane & Babere Kerata Chacha, “Introduction. pp. 1-14 in Njoki Nathani Wane (ed), Education, Colonial Sickness, A Decolonial African Indigenous Project, Pelgrave Macmillan, 2024
  3. Babere Kerata Chacha & Hellen Taabu Women to Women Marriage, Social Justice and House Property System in the Precolonial Period: Implications for Educating the Youth. (pages 59-77) in Njoki Nathani Wane (ed), Education, Colonial Sickness, A Decolonial African Indigenous Project, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024 https://philpapers.org/rec/CHAWTW-2
  4. Njoki Nathani Wane & Babere Kerata Chacha “Conclusion”pp. 343-350) in Njoki Nathani Wane (ed), Education, Colonial Sickness, A Decolonial African Indigenous Project, Pelgrave Macmillan, 2024 www.researchgate.net/publication/387437088_Education_colonial_sickness_a_decolonial_African_indigenous_project_edited _by_Njoki_Nathani_Wane_Switzerland_Palgrave_Macmillan_2024_54_pp_EUR _14999_hardcover_EUR_11769_eBook_ISBN_978-3-031-40261-6_I
  5. Babere Kerata Chacha, Wanjiku Chiuri and Kenneth O. Nyangena, “Racial and Ethnic Mobilization in Kenya” in Zarine L. Rocha (ed) The Palgrave International Handbook of Mixed Racial and Ethnic Classification, 2020
  6. Babere Kerata Chacha “The Power of Memory and Forgetting: Political Assassinations and Extrajudicial Killings in Kenya” in Mwangi, Susan Waiyego, et al (eds) The State and Nation- Building Processes in Kenya Since Independence: Remembering Forgotten and Marginalized Actors, 2019, Langaa Research and Publishing, Bamenda, Cameroon.
  7. Babere Kerata Chacha, “Rethinking Sex and Secrecy in Precolonial African History: A Focus on Kenya” in Jane Bennett, Research on Gender and Sexualities in Africa African Books Collective, Pretoria , 2017 https://laikipia.ac.ke/dr-babere-chacha-profile
  8. “Tensions between Sacred and Political Spaces in Kenya, 1990-2007” in Serawit Bekele Debele and Justice Anquandah Arthur (eds) Religion and Space: Perspectives from African Experiences, Working papers No. 15, 2016 https://www.academia.edu/35105251/Religion_and_Space_Perspectives_from_African_Experiences
  9. Yieke, F., Chacha, B., and Nyakwaka, D (2014) The Bologna Process as Lessons on Quality Management of University Education in Kenya.  Egerton Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. ISSN 1021-1128
  10. Babere Kerata Chacha, Traversing Gender and the Colonial Madness: Same Sex Relationships, Customary Law and Change in Tanzania, 1890-1990” in Anfred Signe, Amanda Gows and Babere Chacha (eds) Gender and Activism in Africa, Codesria, 2005. https://www.africabib.org/rec.php?RID=W00070077
  11. Babere Kerata Chacha, “Pastors or Bastards? The Dynamics of Religion and Politics in the 2007 General Elections in Kenya” in Karuti Kanyinga and Duncan Okello (eds), Tensions and Reversals in Democratic Transition:     The Kenya 2007 General Elections, Society for International Development (SID) and Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi, 2010. http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/bitstream/handle/11295/103471/Kanyinga%20&%20Okello_Tensions%20and%20Reversals%20in%20Democratic%20Transitions.pdf?sequence=1#page=124

Book Reviews

  1. Babere Kerata Chacha Review of Adriaan van Klinken Kenyan, Christian, Queer: religion, LGBT activism, and arts of resistance in Africa In Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute Cambridge University Press, Volume 91, Number 4, August 2021, pp. 696-698 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780271085623/html

Published and Unpublished Manuals

  1. Felicia Arudo Yieke and Babere Kerata Chacha (eds) “HURI 111: Human Rights “OHCHR, Nairobi, 2013
  2. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Felicitas Kinyanjui, Military History II: Degree Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015
  3. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Richard Omwenga, Military History I: Degree Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015
  4. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Zephania Muniko, Theory and Practice of Military Thought I: Degree Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015
  5. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Zephania Muniko, Theory and Practice of Military Thought II: Degree Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015
  6. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Miriam Bageni, Kenneth Nyangena, Gender and Development Diploma Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015
  7. Babere Kerata Chacha, with Miriam Bageni, Kenneth Nyangena, Gender and Development Diploma Course in Military Science, Egerton University Press, 2015

F  Project/Dissertation/Thesis Supervision (provide a sample list)

PhD Supervision

  1. Chemelil Philip Kipkemboi, Land Use Dynamics in The Mau Forest, Kenya; 1895-2005
  2. Banda Godfrey Mayende Mortuary and Funerary Practices among the Bukusu of Kenya, 1895- 2010
  3. Denis Rioba, A History of the State on Human Rights Violations in Kenya, 1963-2010, 2022
  4. Kungu John Ndungu, “The Origin of Incarceration of Women In Kenya: A Case Study of Langata Women Prison, 1960 – 2010, Graduated 2021
  5. Aldo Ajou Deng Akuey, Evolution of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), 1983- 2016, PhD in history, Mount Kenya University, Graduated, November 2020
  6. Makokha Vincent Kinas, ‘The Mainline Churches Involvement in State and Public Affairs in Kenya, 1992-2007’ PhD Religious Studies, Laikipia University. Graduated 2018
  7. Kingau John Mathenge, Effect of Self -Reliance Projects on Livelihoods of Youth in Selected Rural Areas of Nakuru County, Kenya, Phd, Laikipia University. Graduated 2018

Master’s Supervision

  1. Rose Ombughe, Growth and Development of Nakuru Town, 1900-1997 MA History, Mount Kenya University, 2024
  2. Fancy Chepkoech Sitonik, The Social and Political Portrait of Taaitta Arap Toweett, 1925–2007, MA thesis, Laikipia University, 2024
  3. Damaris Ngina, Family Dynamics Among the Wanga of Western Kenya, 1895 – 1990 MA thesis, Mount Kenya University, 2024
  4. Daniel Wapukha Kituyi Walumbe, ‘Ethnic Politics and Voter Mobilisation among the Bukusu’ of Kenya, 1931-2007, Master of Arts In History, Laikipia University, 2023.
  5. Charles Karani, A Biography of Moses Mudavadi, MA thesis in History, Mount Kenya University, 2022
  6. Patrick Ogeto, Torture in Kenyan History, MA thesis, Laikipia University, 2022
  7. Wilfred Onserio Arori, Continuity and change of Kuria Systems of social control, leadership and governance, MA thesis in History, Mount Kenya University, 2021
  8. Irene Kangogo Ronoh, A Biographical Study of Alicen Chelaite, 1945-2007 MA thesis Laikipia University
  9. Chimera, James Mwachidudu, “Factors influencing community policing strategy among security agencies in Njoro sub county, Nakuru County,” Master of Arts in Sociology (Community Development and Project Management) of Egerton University. Graduated 2016
  10. Kungu John Ndungu, “Political Domination and Corrective Institutions: The Case of Manyani Prison, 1952 – 2003. MA History. Graduated 2017
  11. Mirumbe G. M. Daniel, History of Conflicts Among the Kuria of Kenya, 1963 – 2012
  12. Akuma Kwamboka Judith, Francis Atwoli- A Historical Portrait of a Kenyan Trade Unionist, 1949- 2016. Graduated 2017

G   Scholarly Presentations at Conferences/Workshops/Seminars

  1. 2022: Gent, Belgium, Gender in African History
  2. 2021: Niamey, Niger, Islamic Education in Africa
  3. 2020: Pretoria, Colloquium on Abortion
  4. 2018: Pretoria, Colloquium on Reading the LGBTI Category
  5. 2018: Maputo, Dams in Africa Conference
  6. 2015: Zimbabwe: Land Grab Conference
  7. 2015: Addis Ababa: Athletics and Sports Conference
  8. 2015: Johannesburg, African Renaissance Conference
  9. 2013: Cape Town, Human Rights Training at UCT
  10. 2012: Kampala, Uganda, Youth and Violence in East Africa
  11. 2012: London, Children & Migration in Africa Conference
  12. 2012:  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mo Ibrahim Residential Workshop
  13. 2010:  Dakar, Senegal, SEPHIS Young Historian Workshop
  14. 2009: Gothenburg, Sweden, World Sexuality Congress
  15. 2009: Nairobi, Kenya, Institute of Historical Justice and Reconciliation, Meeting to discuss Kenya Historical Injustice Project, Panafric Hotel, Nairobi.
  16. 2008: Yaoundé Cameroon, Codesria General Assembly
  17. 2007: Ghana: African Omuhondro Conference of End of Slave trade, Elimina Beach Hotel, Cape Coast.
  18. 2007: The Netherlands, African Studies Conference, University of Leiden, Leiden
  19. 2006: Seoul Korea, The 9th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women
  20. 2005: Cairo, Egypt, Association of African political Science conference
  21. 2005: Cape Town, South Africa Gender and Women Writing in Africa workshop
  22. 2004: Cambridge, UK, Gender and Resource Use Africa Conference
  23. 2004: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, African in the Aftermath of Sept 11
  24. 2003: Johannesburg, 2003, Sex and secrecy Conference
  25. 2003: Johannesburg: Amanitare African Women Reproductive and sexual Rights conference
  26. 2002: Kampala, 8th international Interdisciplinary Congress on Women      

H  Consultancies (If any)

  1. 2024: External Subject expert for MA programme Maasai Mara University
  2. 2023: Pan African Studies Curriculum Preparation, Lukenya University
  3. 2023: Consultancy, for Kulturweit/UNESCO African project
  4. 2021: Goethe Institute Kenya, Cultural Training
  5. 2015: Member, Selection and Scientific Committee of CODESRIA, Dakar
  6. 2013: Consultancy on political assassinations for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission-TJRC, Kenya
  7. 2008: Consultancy with CID/University of Nairobi, 2007 General Elections in Kenya

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