Micere githae mugo biography of george washington

  • Micere Githae Mugo a dual citizen of Kenya and the United States of America passed on June 30, , at am at the age of
  • Micere was born in Baricho, Kirinyaga, on December 12, , the daughter of two pioneer teachers.
  • Micere Githae Mugo, who has died at the age of 80, was a pioneering Kenyan author and academic at the vanguard of Kenya and Africa's.

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    Micere Mugo: Liberation literature icon takes final bow

    Micere Githae Mugo, who has died at the age of 80, was a pioneering Kenyan author and academic at the vanguard of Kenya and Africa's artistic and cultural revival. It's a role that she discharged without wavering, first in , when she was deployed to join then white-only Limuru Girls High School in colonial Kenya.

    In a virtual celebration to mark her 80th birthday last December, Micere said the intent of the multiracial experiment was to confirm that African students were as bright as whites. This is not conjecture; the Eugenics movement in colonial Kenya of s held that the mental development of a grown African compared to an eight-year European boy.

    Micere survived and thrived at Limuru, subsequently joining Makerere University, before heading off to Canada for graduate study-becoming the first African to earn a doctorate from the University of Toronto-and joining the University of Nairobi in

    "She was inspired an

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    Curriculum Vitae

    MICERE M. GITHAE MUGO

    Dept. of African American Studies & Emeritus Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

    Syracuse University

     

    Qualifications:                                     Ph.D., Lit., Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada,

    M.A., Lit., Univ. of New Brunswick, Canada,

    P.G.D.E., University of East Africa, Nairobi,

    B.A. Hons., University of East Africa, Makerere,

     

    EMPLOYMENT:

     

    • Emeritus Full Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, SU, Retired May
    • Full Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, Syracuse University,
    • Chair, Dept. of African American Studies,
    • Associate Professor, Dept. of African American Studies, Syracuse University,
    • Visiting Professor, Africana Studies and Research Centre, Cornell University,
    • Associate Professor, Head of English/Literature Unit, Dept. of Curriculum and Arts Education, University of Zimbabwe,
    • Associate Professor, Dept. of Curriculum Studies, University of Zimbabwe, (Se
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      Prof Micere Githae Mugo. PHOTO | COURTESY

      The epithet, a woman of four nations, would aptly describe renowned literary scholar, poet and teacher Prof Micere Githae Mugo, who died recently in the United States. She was born, studied, worked and lived in Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and the US.

      She once declared: “I’m a child of the universum. I have lived in almost all the continents.”

      The Kenyan academic, Prof Mugo, or simply Micere, who died on June 30, , at the age of 81, was interred on July 31 at Oakwood Cemetery in New York.  

      Syracuse University was her last academic station before she retired and later succumbed to cancer, an illness that had dogged her for 16 years.

      Alliance Girls High School

      Micere was born in Baricho, Kirinyaga, on månad 12, , the daughter of two pioneer teachers. She went to primary school locally and later joined the prestigious Alliance Girls High School, at Kikuyu, from to

      In , she became the first African to join Limuru Girls High Scho