Dave Hyde formerly taught African Studies part-time at the School of Oriental and African Studies and at the University of Essex.

He lived and worked in Kenya for 5 years before undertaking his research on the region.

Besides his career as a tertiary and secondary teacher, he has worked variously as a factory operative and local government officer.

Shortform CV

• B.A. [ Hons]: University of Essex.
• M.A. , Ph.D., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
• Post-Graduate Certification of Education, University of Leeds.

• History of Colonial and Post-colonial Development in Africa

AI2203 Colonialism: culture, development and resistance

AI1202 Imperialism: economy, state and war

AI3000 International Development Dissertation: Africa Pathway

Supervision of research students (PhD)

Those undertaking Africa related research.

Book chapters

• The Nairobi General Strike [1950]: From Protest to Insurgency in Andrew Burton [Editor] The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c.1750-2000 [2002]; ISBN 1-872566-26-X

Journal publications

• Undercurrents to Independence: Plantation Strikes in Kenya's Central Province 1959-60, Journal of Eastern African Studies Vol. 1 Number 3 [in press].
• Paying for the Emergency by Displacing the Settlers' : Global Coffee and Rural Restructuring in Late Colonial Kenya, Journal of Global History [forthcoming].

Conference papers

• Paying for the Emergency by Displacing the Settlers' : Global Coffee and Rural Restructuring in Late Colonial Kenya. Empire of Commodities International Conference, Open University Centre, Camden, July 2007.
• The East African Railway Strike [1959-60]. 'The Political Economy of Kenya – Past & Present' conference, St Antony’s College, Oxford, May 2004.
  *Forthcoming publication
• Upsurge in the Kericho Valley: Tea Plantation Strikes in Kenya, 1959-66. Presented at Development Studies Association conference [History and Development Group], S.O.A.S., June 2003.
• The World CoffeeCrisis and its Impact on Kenya [1955-1961]. Presented at Development Studies Association conference [History and Development Group], L.S.E., June 2002.
  *Forthcoming publication
• The Nairobi General Strike [1950]: From Protest to Insurgency; Presented at 'East Africa's Urban Pasts' conference, Nairobi, July 2001.
• East African Railways and Harbours, 1950-9: A Crisis of Accumulation. Presented at Development Studies Association conference [History and Development Group], Royal Holloway College, May 2001.
  *Forthcoming publication
• The Kenya Canners Strike [1960]. Presented at 'Continuity and Change in Colonial and Post-Colonial East Africa' conference, S.O.A.S., June 2000.
• Beyond Mau Mau: Plantation Unionism and the Independence Struggle in Kenya. Presented at 'Revisionist Histories of Mau Mau' conference, S.O.A.S., November 1999.
• Plantation Strikes in Kenya'sThika and Kiambu Districts, 1960. Presented at Development Studies Association conference [History and Development Group], Royal Holloway College, June 1998.
• Trade Unions and the State in Kenya, 1945-63. Presented at Kenyatta University 'Labour and Development' conference, Nairobi, Kenya, January 1997.

Editorships/panel committee memberships

• Panel Convenor: African Labour Movements, African Studies Association Conference 2004.
• Research Grants
  • PhD Studentship, Economic and Social Research Council 1996-9.
  • Henry Charles Chapman Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 2003-4