Speaking & Public Engagements
I speak at academic conferences, policy forums, diplomatic training programmes, public dialogues, and professional academies. My engagements connect research with the practical concerns of diplomats, policymakers, defence professionals, civil society organisations, journalists, scholars, and students.
Selected Engagements
2026
- HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, Nairobi — Presented Promises and Prospects of Africa-Led Peace and Security Financing Mechanisms: Lessons from the African Union Peace Fund and Related Instruments.
- Institute for Security Studies Expert Roundtable, Nairobi, 8 July 2026 — Presented remarks as lead discussant during the session Kenya in the East and Horn of Africa: Strategic Context. The session examined Kenya’s strategic interests, comparative advantages, and evolving role in regional peace and security.
- Friedrich Naumann Foundation Academy of Geopolitics, Nairobi — Facilitated Is Global Trade Dead? Geoeconomics, Chokepoints and Africa’s Strategic Choices.
- Kenya Foreign Policy Initiative, Nairobi — Presented Corridors, Coasts and Contestations: Kenya’s Strategic Choices in a Shifting Eastern and Southern African Order.
- National Foreign Affairs Training Center — Guest lecture on East African Regional Integration: The EAC and Opportunities for U.S. Engagement as part of an Eastern Africa subregional course.
2025
- National Foreign Affairs Training Center — Guest lecture on Political and Cultural Dynamics of Tanzania and the Tanganyika–Zanzibar Union as part of an Eastern Africa subregional course for diplomats and foreign-affairs professionals.
- National Defence College Kenya — Contributed to the training and supervision of senior participants on regional security, foreign policy, and strategic studies.
- 5th India–Africa Strategic Dialogue, New Delhi — Presented India–Africa Defence Cooperation and Maritime Security: The Case of Kenya.
- Institute for Security Studies Public Dialogue — Moderated Democracy in Trouble: Tanzania’s 2025 General Elections.
- International Relations Society of Kenya Foreign Policy Outlook — Discussant on peace, security, political risk, and regional diplomacy in Eastern and Central Africa. View the programme.
- Africa–US Forum — Roundtable speaker on African agency, strategic neutrality, non-alignment, and relations with global powers. Read the forum report.
2024
- China in the World Summit, Johannesburg — Presented Chinese Malign Influence and the Corrosion of Democracy: An Assessment of Chinese Interference in Tanzania. View the summit overview.
- International Conference on Decolonizing Visual Representation, the Netherlands — Co-presented research on international development organisations and the visual representation of Kibera and other communities in the Global South.
2023 and Earlier
- Maalim Seif Sharif Hamad Memorial Conference, Zanzibar — Speaker on politics, leadership, governance, reconciliation, and democratic development in Tanzania and Zanzibar. Read the conference report.
- African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco — Presented research on the East African Community Regional Force in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and co-presented work on militainment and public perceptions of military operations.
- African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston — Presented research on music, political performance, and electoral mobilisation in Kenya.
- European Conference on African Studies, University of Edinburgh — Presented Singing and Dancing to Election Manifestos: Campaign Pledges and Development Rhetoric in Kenya’s 2017 Election.
- Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice Conferences — Presented research on post-conflict state-building, reconciliation, transitional justice, and security-sector reform in South Sudan at academic and policy forums in Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, and the United Kingdom.