MKU Student Wins Wangari Maathai Award

Google Search Doodle in commemoration of Wangari Maathai 73rd Birthday

Abigael Ndinda was awarded with the inaugural Wangari Maathai Scholarship Fund on Thursday morning at the Green Belt movement offices to commemorate Wangari Maathai Day.

The second year medicine student at Mount Kenya University (MKU) was presented with the Sh800,000 Environmental Innovations Fund Scholarship award by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Green Belt Movement and the Kenya Community Development Foundation for her tree-planting initiative. 

Ngugi Among National Books Critics Awards Finalists

Kenya's prolific writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o was among 30 finalists announced on Monday for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle’s (NBCC) Awards.

The UC Irvine professor was nominated for his recent autobiography 'In the House of the Interpreter' published by  Pantheon. The book is a follow-up to his first memoir, 'Dreams in a Time of War' introducing the reader to the creation of modern Africa from the collision of a series of powerful opposing forces; nationalism and colonialism, rural tradition and capitalist modernity.

Scientist Samuel Kariuki wins Royal Society Pfizer Award 2012

Dr. Samuel Kariuki, a senior director at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and Chief Research Scientist and Head of Department, Centre of the Microbiology Research has bagged the Royal Society Pfizer Award 2012 for his outstanding research in invasive Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) infections in Kenya.

RIP Music Maestro Arthur Mudogo Kemoli

Jeff Koinange  hosts Dr. Kemoli (left) on the Bench

Remembering Musical Kemoli

Dr Arthur Mudogo Kemoli died on Sunday after a long battle with diabetes and renal disease. Many will remember Dr. Kemoli for his mastery in composing choral music with pieces such as ‘Fimbo ya Nyayo’ remaining golden. 

Prof. Bethwell Allan Ogot EBS

Born in August 3, 1929 in Gem, Siaya County Dr. Bethwell Allan Ogot is a distinguished historian, scholar, mentor, and a diligent public servant. He’s renowned for numerous contributions to the research of Kenya and East Africa’s history as well as his work in Luo oral traditions.

Little known of him was his contribution to Kenya’s independence, where as a leader of the Kenya Students Association he assisted the late Oginga Odinga during the 1960 negotiations in London. He is the incumbent Chancellor of Moi University, Eldoret.

Prof Yash Pal Ghai CBE

The legal expert with broad expertise in constitutional matters was born in 1938 in Nairobi. Many Kenyans remember him as the chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review commission (CKRC), a commission he led from 2000 to 2004. He’s the current Director of Katiba Institute and a member of the advisory board of the Asian Commission of Human Rights.

 On 9^th March 2012, Fiji Leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama announced that he would head a five member Constitutional commission tasked to draft a new constitution for Fiji.

He earned a BA (1961), MA (1990) and DCL (1992) degrees from Oxford University. He was called to the English bar from Middle Temple in 1962 where he was a barrister and received an LL.M from Harvard University in 1963.