Kabarak Law Review invites submissions and commentaries on various aspects of the law and politics of police accountability. This section commemorates the lives of Benson Njiru Ndwiga and Emmanuel Mutura Ndwiga (known as the Kianjokoma Brothers), who fell victim to police brutality on 1 August 2021 during COVID-19 curfew enforcement in Kenya. Emmanuel was a second-year student at Kabarak Law School.
The deaths of Emmanuel and Benson, two brothers from Embu County in Kenya who died in police custody shortly after their arrest, brought the issue of police brutality, impunity, and accountability to the forefront of Kenya's national conscience. Their case, which triggered widespread public outrage, legal proceedings, and civic mobilisation, represents a critical inflection point in the ongoing struggle for police reform and justice in Kenya.
This section continues a body of work long in progress, recognising that the struggle for police accountability in Kenya is not a new conversation, but one that demands deeper and more urgent attention. It is part of a sustained and ongoing scholarly engagement with police accountability in Kenya, an effort that neither begins nor ends here.
In light of this, Kabarak Law Review welcomes original, rigorous, and critically engaged scholarly work that interrogates the systemic conditions enabling police violence, evaluates accountability mechanisms, and envisions pathways toward transformative justice. We particularly welcome and encourage interdisciplinary submissions: work that draws across law, sociology, history, public health, criminology, gender studies, and beyond.
Authors are encouraged to submit their own original work and avoid concealing the use of AI tools which is unethical. AI generated text will not be considered for publication. Any submission found to include AI generated text will be declined and retracted at any point of the editorial process, and even after publication.
Submissions should be about 3000-5000 words and should be submitted by 31 July 2026. Submissions should be submitted via the Kabarak Law Review’s Online Journals System (OJS) attached here < https://journals.kabarak.ac.ke/index.php/klr/submissions>. Queries may be sent to the KLR Editorial Team at <
