Biography

Kamau Wairuri is a Lecturer in Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is interested in the ways that social order is imagined, produced, and maintained in Africa, with a focus on the politics of criminal justice on the continent. His work examines the major themes of criminal and political violence, the state police and their policing of criminalised and otherwise marginalised groups, including sex workers, queer people, migrants and the urban poor, especially young men. His work is primarily situated at the urban margins.
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