For Micere Githae Mugo, the philosophy of utu/ubuntu was not so much an expression of a state of being as of becoming.
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...
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...
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.
Mwalimu Micere Mugo’s intellectual positions were profoundly political. Personalising Mwalimu’s story removes from it the historical and the political context, yet the point of memorialising those...
Speaking on the theme of Imperialism in the Third World World Professor Micere Mugo argues that, depending on who ends up having supremacy over our intellect,...
“I don’t hate Mwai Kibaki, I never have. He isn’t a man who caused me to hate; he is someone who broke my heart.”
The political and legal system that Njonjo defined and defended was meant to guard the security and prosperity of Kenya’s wealthy and entitled upper classes. It...
There is a resistance to imagining people who have committed heinous acts as being capable of expressing humanity, and conversely, of those who show such humanity...
Much will be said and written about Charles Njonjo. The Charles Njonjo I knew was a steadfast friend and a man of his word without hesitation.
Hilary Ng’weno was the founder of the respected Weekly Review which became the standard-bearer for political news reporting in Kenya and the region.
How Kenneth Kaunda was instrumental in guiding Zambia through its formative years in the absence of war or mass atrocities that blighted many of its neighbors.