Babere chacha

Babere Kerata Chacha is a Senior Lecturer in African History in the Department of Public Affairs and Environmental Studies at Laikipia University in Kenya. He was the 2022 inaugural recipient of the Sarah Bartman fellowship of the University of Cape town. A Former Director of External Linkages and the founder an coordinator of the Centre for Human Rights and Gender Centre at Laikipia University. Chacha has been a fellow School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Junior fellow St. Antony’s College University of Oxford; Fellow, Wolfson College Cambridge, Global fellow, University of New South Wales, Australia and More recently given Sarah Bartmann Award for the year 2022 for excellence in teaching of African women history. In the past 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 teaching Police Science, Military History and Military Thought at the Kenya Military Academy in Lanet. His main research interest includes in political assassinations and human and women rights, but he also has wide interests in environment, terrorism, reconciliation, religion, and sexuality. He consulted for the TJRC in Kenya on political assassinations, and spearheaded the launch of the police science programme and the study of human rights as a common core course at Laikipia University.