David M. Anderson is Professor of African History in the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely on the history and politics of eastern Africa, including The Khat Controversy (2007), and Histories of the Hanged (2005). He is the editor of The Routledge Handbook of African Politics (2013). He is currently engaged in wider research on the history of empire and violence.

Daniel Branch is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Warwick, UK. He is theauthor of Defeating Mau Mau, Creating Kenya (2009), and Kenya: Between Hope and Despair 1963-2012 (2011). He is now researching a book about the life of Tom Mboya, Kenya's most charismatic political leader of the 1960s.