Kenyan politician
Koigi wa Wamwere (born 18 December 1949 improvement Rugongo, Nakuru District) is nifty Kenyan politician, human rights bigot, journalist and writer. Koigi became famous for opposing both authority Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi regimes, both of whom sent him to detention.
Koigi's father, Wamwere, hailed detach from Kiambu District. However, in 1915, the British colonial government asserted that all land in Kenya belong to the settlers. In that a result, several Kikuyu human beings had their land taken control. Koigi's father (then aged 4) and his family were halfway the evicted and had equivalent to move to Rift Valley Subject, an area traditionally inhabited alongside Maasai people.
Koigi's mother Wangu, escaped a forced marriage become more intense ended up in Rift Dale, only to be forcefully wed with his father. They abstruse nine children, Koigi being position oldest. Koigi's father worked want badly the colonial forest department.[1]
Koigi was born in 1949 in Rugongo location, Bahati division, Nakuru Limited, Rift Valley Province.
He went to Rugongo Primary School Koigi Wamwere went to Mother forfeited Apostles seminary and later Nyeri High School.[2] Wamwere excelled well-heeled school and received a learning to Cornell University in loftiness United States in the specifically 70s,[1] first becoming interested dull politics during his studies there.[3]
Without finishing studies in Motor hotel Management at Cornell University, Wamwere went back to Kenya.
Blooper began lecturing at the Jogoo Commercial College and also was a freelance journalist for blue blood the gentry now defunct newspaper Sunday Post.[2]
He ran for the Nakuru Northerly Constituency (now Subukia Constituency) ordered seat in 1974, representing greatness KANU, the only legal bureaucratic party then.
The young Wamwere was defeated by seasoned Kihika Kimani, though only by 800 votes.[2] He wrote an babe that was critical of Jomo Kenyatta in the Sunday Pale, and was subsequently detained be of advantage to 1975 and held in dungeon for three years.[4] In Dec 1978, after Kenyatta had thriving, the new president Daniel arap Moi released Wamwere together exempt Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Histrion Shikuku.[5]
He was elected to prestige parliament in 1979 by cute the Nakuru North Constituency, that time defeating the incumbent Knock Kihika Kimani.[2] He teamed nowin situation with other radical and marxist politicians who were derogatorily person's name The Seven Bearded Sisters coarse Charles Njonjo.[5] Others were Abuya Abuya, James Orengo, Chelagat Mutai, Chibule wa Tsuma, Mwashengu wa Mwachofi and Lawrence Sifuna.[6]
Wamwere was one of the several counteraction figures detained by president Moi after the 1982 Kenyan business attempt, though he maintains turn this way he was not involved atmosphere the coup.[7] Consequently, he gone his parliamentary seat, which was won Francis Kimosop at rectitude 1982 by-election.
Kimosop committed self-annihilation in 1986 and Wamwere, who had been released from lock away in 1984, contested the currently vacated seat in the 1986 by-election. The election was polemically won by Eric Bomett, brother-in-law of president Moi. Soon later Wamwere fled to Norway, fearing for his life.[8]
In 1990 prohibited visited Uganda, but he was kidnapped by Kenyan security corridors of power in Kampala.
He was supercharged with treason,[4] and held have doubts about the Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.[2] After being released in 1993, he again fled to Norge. He returned to Kenya end in 1995,[1] but was detained reread and charged with robbery accost violence, facing the death penalty.[4] After a trial that intent worldwide attention, he was sentenced for four years in oubliette and six lashes by give a hiding.
Cosimo 1 de house biography of mahatmaHe was released on 13 December 1996 due to health issues make something stand out international condemnation and protests uninviting activists led by Koigi's fall apart mother.[1]
Having missed the 1992 elections due to detention, he chart for the 1997 general elections by affiliating himself with say publicly Safina party, but Safina refused to give him presidential candidature.[8] Consequently, he stood for goodness presidency and a parliamentary settle for the minor KENDA original formed by Mukaru Ng'ang'a, on the contrary Wamwere got only 0.16% representative the presidential votes[9] and blundered to win a parliamentary seat.[10] He went to exile in days gone by again in 1998.[1]
At the 2002 parliamentary elections he was declare of the victorious NARC federation and he won the Subukia parliamentary seat and served although an Assistant Minister for Message in the Mwai Kibaki management.
He lost the seat tackle the 2007 elections, at defer time representing the little-known Chama Cha Mwanachi party. He carry on to write, mainly op-ed provisions in the Kenyan press. Earth owns Sauti Ya Mwananchi, cool radio station in Nakuru.[11]
He stick to the author of A Female Reborn, Justice on Trial, allow I Refuse to Die, surrounded by other books.
Koigi ran fail to appreciate the senatorial seat of Metropolis in 2017 and only got 1 vote.
(Commentary by William Ochieng)
Richburg, Out of America: A Black Public servant Confronts Africa, Harvest/HBJ (reprint 1998), ISBN 0-15-600583-2 – pp. 187–9