Carole Boyce Davies looks at Micere Githae Mugo’s contribution to the topic of Black women’s leadership across the African world.
David Mwambari shares the key lessons he learned from Mwalimu Mugo as her teaching assistant at Syracuse University that have transformed his personal and professional life.
Tortured by the police and driven into exile, Professor Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo never gave up her struggles for social justice and her belief in Utu: I am because you are.
Armed with boldness and courage, Micere Githae Mugo put an end to the racist insults by white teaching staff that students at the prestigious school had continued to endure even after independence.
Our heroes and heroines deserve to be given the accolades that they rightly deserve. But we should eschew their deification and instead debate and contest their intellectual and creative output to generate new knowledge and enrich our overall cultural production.
For Micere Githae Mugo, the philosophy of utu/ubuntu was not so much an expression of a state of being as of becoming.
In Kenya, political elites across the spectrum are trying to sell off the country for themselves—capitulation is inevitable.
In her tribute Dr Rose Sackeyfio looks at the ways in which Professor Micere Mugo’s collection My Mother’s Poem and Other Songs interrogates important issues of women’s empowerment, Pan-Africanism, and social justice.
In his speech in honour of Prof Micere Mugo at Syracuse University on 3 April 2015, Dr Willy Mutunga acknowledges her as his mentor and the mother of feminist masculinity.
Mwalimu Micere Githae Mugo helped to give voice to African women’s struggle against oppression either by colonial processes, imperialist oppression or by their postcolonial nation-state.
The current political impasse is bigger than Ruto and Raila, both of whom are locked in a struggle for power even as the economic hardships of the visited upon Wenyenchi intensify. It is time for Kenyans to call a people-to-people dialogue to save ourselves.
Finland's overall corruption is relatively low, according to public opinion and global indexes and standards. The steps it took to fight corruption were both bold and radical. Pirkka Tapiola, Ambassador of Finland to Kenya speaks.