Willy Mutunga’s rise as ‘social justice hero’
Friday April 16 2021
The book weaves a load of Kenyan colonial and post-colonial history into Willy’s story.
Willy is one of those accused and detained along with activists like Maina wa Kinyatti, Koigi wa Wamere, Alamin Mazrui, and following the failed coup attempt in August 1982, Raila Odinga.
Given that Mazrui is still writing for a youthful audience, she doesn’t go into detail about the torturous life in detention.
You can tell without even opening the book, Willy Munyoki Mutunga of Kenya: Our Hero of Justice that its author Elizabeth Orchardson-Mazrui is an academic.
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April 05, 2021
The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the Rwanda Governance Board (RGB) co-hosted a technical meeting on curriculum development for the African Union Governance Campus. The African Union Governance Campus is a set of governance development training programmes that is being developed in collaboration with the Pan African University.
It is envisioned that the programmes of the African Union Governance Campus will offer African-conceived and African-delivered modular programmes at post-graduate levels. The programmes will be delivered in two streams: an academic stream and an executive stream. To facilitate its delivery virtually and physically, the AU Governance Campus will have regional partner institutions across the continent, representing each of the six (6) AU regions (Central, East, North, South, West, and the Diaspora).
Tanzania trims back president s order to reopen media outlets
April 9, 2021 Written by VOA Vendors arrange copies of newspapers following the death of Tanzania s President John Magufuli in Dar es Salaam, March 18, 2021
Earlier this week, new Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced that media outlets shut down under her predecessor could reopen. But the chief government spokesman said Wednesday that Suluhu was only referring to online television. Journalists are confused and not happy with the new administration.
This week, Tanzanian journalists applauded an announcement from President Suluhu that media organizations suspended under the late president John Magufuli would be allowed to reopen.
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