Samuel Derbyshire

Samuel F. Derbyshire is an award-winning social anthropologist at the University of Oxford, specialising in African pastoralism. His research has led him to live amongst semi-nomadic communities in the far northern reaches of Kenya for most of the last decade, researching their livelihoods, languages and histories. It has led to multiple research publications, photo-essays, photographic exhibitions and more recently a monograph entitled Remembering Turkana: Material Histories and Contemporary Livelihoods in North-Western Kenya, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Ogot book prize awarded by the African Studies Association.