Gideon Were

• Acting chairperson of the Department of History 1973–1974
• Dean of Faculty of Arts 1974–1978
• Chair of Postgraduate Committee of University Senate 1974–1978
• Director of Institute of African Studies, 1985–1990

Board member/director:

1. Kenya National Assurance
2. Nairobi Primary School
3. Kenya High School

• Gideon S. Were Press, Nairobi, Kenya
• Star Academy, Kakamega, Kenya (Primary Boarding School)
• Were Enterprises, Kakamega, Kenya

Were authored and co-authored the following publications his career:

1. East Africa Through A Thousand Years: A History Of The Years AD 1000 To The Present Day, (with Derek A. Wilson) London: Evans Brothers 1968 344p. (Revised editions 1972, 1984)
2. A History of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya: C.1500–1930. Nairobi: East African Publishing House, (1967, 206p.)
3. Western Kenya Historical Texts: Abaluyia, Teso and Elgon Kalenjin, Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1967, 196p.
4. Essays On The History Of South-Central Africa (with M.A. Ogutu) Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau
5. A History of South Africa, London: Evans Brothers, 1974, 198p. (Revised Edition 1983)
6. Essays on African Religion in Western Kenya. Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1977\
7. Woman and Development in Africa, (Spec. Issue of "JEAR&D" Vol. 15). (edited). Nairobi: Gideon S. Were Press, 1985
8. History, Public Morality and Nation-Building: A Survey Of Africa Since Independence: 17th Inaugural Lecture, University Of Nairobi 26 March 1981, Nairobi: University of Nairobi
9. Leadership And Underdevelopment In Africa. Nairobi: Gideon S. Were, 1983
10. The Survivors (A Play), Nairobi: Equatorial Publishers, 1967; East African Literature Bureau, 1968

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