A talk by Prof Bruce Berman, Professor Emeritus of Political Studies and History at Queen’s. He was the director and principal investigator of the Ethnicity and Democratic Governance Program from 2006 to 2012 In 2012-13 he was the Smuts University Research Fellow at Cambridge and is a continuing Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College. He is the author of Control and Crisis in Colonial Kenya (Gregory Prize, 1991 and, with John Lonsdale, Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa (Reese Prize. 1995). His most recent books are Secular States and Religious Diversity, edited with Andre Laliberte and Rajeev Bhargava (UBC Press 2013), and Moral Economies and Ethnic and Nationalist Claims, edited with Andre Laliberte and Stephen Larin (UBC Press, forthcoming in 2016). He and John Lonsdale are completing The House of Custom: Louis Leakey, Jomo Kenyatta and the Modern Kikuyu.