Professor David M. Anderson
University of Warwick
David M. Anderson is Professor in African History, at the Global History & Culture Centre, University of Warwick, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is also a Research Associate at Stellenbosch University, and an International Faculty Professor at the University of Cologne. Trained at the universities of Sussex and Cambridge, Anderson has previously taught at Birkbeck London, SOAS London, and the University of Oxford. He is best known for his research and writing on the colonial and post-colonial history of eastern Africa. His authoritative study of the Mau Mau rebellion, Histories of the Hanged (2005), is supplemented by over a dozen articles on the colonial counter-insurgency. Anderson was responsible for the revelation of the Hanslope Disclosure in 2011, when he was acting as an Expert Witness in the prosecution of the British government for tortures committed in Kenya during the 1950s. The Hanslope Disclosure brought to light a secret archive of nearly 30,000 colonial files from 37 former British colonies. Some of those documents will feature in his talk about colonies legacies at the London Law Conference.