• 2017, Attended a workshop on, “ Theory and Practice of the history of Kenya Public Service” held at Strathmore University, 7-8^th April,2017.
• 2016, ‘Learning to Live Together Through History and Government’; Education Conference Organised by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development, sponsored by the Royal Danish Embassy at the Sagana Gateway Resort,  27^th -30^th September, 2016
• 2016, ‘Voices from the Escarpment: A Historical Narrative of Keiyo Livelihoods and Environmental Degradation, Rift Valley, Kenya’, An International Conference in Honour of Professor Akanmu G. Adebayo, University of Ibadan, Africa Since Independence: Promise, Pugnacity and Failure in the Post-Colonial Contexts, August 2-5, 2016  
• 2016: With Prof. Kiplagat Kotut, ‘Decolonizing Land Tenure, Indigenous Livelihoods and the Destruction of the Elgeyo Escarpment: A Spiritual Ecology Perspective’. Paper read at the 10^th Annual Decolonizing the Spirit Conference, 19^th -21^st July 2016, Embu University College
• 2016, ‘Kenya National Interest: Goals and Objectives’ Discussion paper presented at the Senior Command Course, Joint Warfare Centre, Lanet, on 18^th January 2016
• 2015, Attended and participated at the World Social Science Forum, Durban International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa,13^th -16^th September 2016.
• 2015, ‘Taxation Injustice in Kenya and its Implication on the Working Class and Peasantry’, Codesria Economic Injustice, Southern Sun Hotel, Durban, South Africa, 7-18, September 2015
• 2014, Workshop ‘Training of Trainers on Human Rights’, Sentrim Hotel, Lake Elementeita, Sponsored by United Nations Human Rights Office
• 2013, E-Learning Capacity Building Course on Developing anad Publishing of Digital Teaching and Learning Materials, Utafiti, Egerton University
• 2012, ‘Brother Time’ a Kenyan Tale of Violence and Humanity, Documentary DVD on the 2007/2008 Post Election Violence, edited and produced by Wesley Shrum. www.imdb.com/title/tt2072069/ <brothertimemovie.com>
• 2012, Research Proposal Writing Workshop, Agricultural Research Centre, April 2012, under Prof. Obura
• 2011, ‘The Past in the Present: Why Do the Ruling Class Fear History?’ Paper read at a Workshop organised by the Inter-Universities Council for East Africa on the Theme of Repositioning the Humanities, at the Pearl Hotel, from the 20-22^nd June 2011, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
• 2009, ‘IDP’s Narratives as Political Discourse of Identity Interviews’, Interviews were conducted by Hassan Mwakimoto, George Gona, Isaac Tarus and Felistus Kinyanjui, The Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation <historyand reconciliation.org/our-work/projects/Kenya/
• 2009, ‘African Leviathan’: Financing a United States of Africa’, Symposium on the United States of Africa, held at the Merieden Hotel and sponsored by Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal, 27-30 July, 2009
• 2009, Egerton University, Proposal Writing Workshop, Organised by the Division of Research and Extension, Egerton University, 26-28^th May 2009
• 2009 Participant and member of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation based at The Hague, on the theme of Engaging Kenyan Historians in National History Making and Reconciliation held at the Pan African Hotel, Nairobi, 8-10 January 2009
• 2009, Presented a Paper on ‘Eastern Africa Regional Security Cooperation’ at the School of Combat, Lanet, Senior Command Course
• 2008, Attended and Participated in Pedagogical Workshop held at the Agricultural Resource Centre, Egerton University, 24^th -26^th September 2008
• 2008 The ‘Narcissism of Minor Differences’ – the Social Pathology of Ethnic Conflict in Kenya: the Struggle for the Rift Valley read at the Historical Association of South Africa on ‘History and Crisis’, held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 7 to 9 July 2008
• 2007 ‘Democracy and Taxation Revisited: Citizen Choices in Kenya's Political Economy’ Paper prepared for CODESRIA's Inaugural Conference of Alumni, on the theme of: Re-thinking State and Democracy in Africa to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 19-21 September 2007

• 2006 ‘Kodi: The Historical Legacy of Taxation in Postcolonial Kenya, 1958–1973’ Paper read at the Historical Association of Kenya annual conference, held at the United States International University, Nairobi, 7-8 July 2006
• 2003 'The State, Citizenship and the Politics of Taxation in Kenya, 1963-2003’ Paper read at CODESRIA, 30^th Anniversary Celebrations: East Africa Sub-Regional Conference, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2003
• 2003 ‘Interrogating Peter Ekeh’s Model of “Two Public Realms” and its Application to Kenya’, paper read at the conference on Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts and Humanities, University of Ghana, Legon, 17-19 September 2003
• 2002 ‘Taxation, Migration and the Creation of a Working Class in Kenya: Myth and Reality’, CODESRIA 10^th General Assembly, Africa in the New Millennium, 08-12 December, Kampala, Uganda
• 2002 ‘Citizenship Betrayed: Taxation and Financing the Democratic process in Kenya’ CODESRIA Governance Institute 5 –31 August 2002 session on, Intra-State Challenges to the Nation State project, Dakar, Senegal, 2002
• 2002 SEPHIS workshop on Globalization and its Discontents, Revisited, Read paper on ‘Peasants, Money and Markets: A Century of Taxation in Kenya and its Global Roots’, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12 June to 17 June 2002
• 2000 ‘The Formative Stage of Kenya’s Tax Regime, 1901-1963’, Discussion paper read at the Extended Workshop for Young Historians sponsored by CODESRIA/SEPHIS, Dakar, Senegal
• 1997 ‘Land, Labour and the Historical Roots of Poverty in Kenya: the example of the Keiyo ’, Paper read at the annual conference of the Historical Association of Kenya, Cranes Hotel, Nakuru.
• 1994 ‘The Roots of Poverty in Africa and Latin America: The examples of Kenya and Mexico’, A discussion paper presented at the Center of African Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• 1990, Administrative Officer’s Induction Course No 1790, Kenya Institute of Administration, Kabete, 7^th -31^st May 1990

Awards and Grants                                                     

• 2014/2015: Visiting Scholar, University of Nairobi, University of Dar es Salaam and Mount Kenya University while on Sabbatical Leave
• 2011: Voices from the Escarpment: Historical Narratives of Keiyo Livelihoods and Environmental Degradation. Funded by Egerton University

• Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation based at The Hague, on the theme of Engaging Kenyan Historians in National History Making and Reconciliation. Interview Internally Displaced people at Pipeline Nakuru, Burn Forest and Kimumu, Eldoret. 

·         2007: Egerton University, From Hut to Vat: A Century of Taxation in Kenya’s Political Economy, 1895-1995. Funded by Egerton University

• 2006: CODESRIA, Advanced Research Fellowship Programme, ‘A Historical Study of Taxation in Kenya, 1895-2005’
• 2000: CODESRIA, Small Grants Programme for thesis writing
• 1999: Milner Memorial Essay Competition, Rhodes University, South Africa
• 1998: Rhodes University Student Travel Grant to contact Ph.D. research at the Kenya National Archives
• 1998-2001: Graduate Assistantship Bursary, Department of History, Rhodes University
• 1994 Visiting Scholar Center for African Studies, University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Egerton – Illinois Linkage Programme
• 1988 University of Nairobi Postgraduate Scholarship and Research grant to pursue MA degree in History
• 1986 Department of History, University of Nairobi Research Grant to study the ‘Pre-colonial History of the Keiyo’ as part of the 3 1 1 (History major) project