She was rewarded yesterday at University of Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania with Distinguished Nyerere Lecturer 2012. Micere is a playwright,
author, poet, literal critic, activist and instructor born in 1942, Baricho in
Kirinyaga County.
She attended Alliance
Girls High School before leaving for Makerere University for her B.A and later
the University of New Brunswick for her M.A. In 1978, she gained her Ph.D. from
the University of Toronto and returned home to lecture at the University of
Nairobi where she became the first female faculty dean in Kenya.
