Anyang' Nyong'o, Willy Mutunga and Issa Shivji
P. Anyang’ Nyong’o is a public intellectual, educationist and is the current Governor of Kisumu county.
Dr Willy Mutunga is a public intellectual and former Chief Justice of Kenya.
Prof. Issa G. Shivji, author, poet and academic, is one of Africa's leading experts on law and development, presently occupies the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Research Chair in Pan-African Studies of the University of Dar es Salaam.