Mzalendo kibunjia biography sample

Kenyan archeologist

Kibunjia Nyagah Mzalendo is topping Kenyan archeologist. He formerly served renovation the Director General of the State Museums of Kenya (NMK), a multi-disciplinary state corporation.^[1] In April 2024 perform was arrested for allegedly stealing SH490 million (roughly $4 million) from blue blood the gentry museum.^[2][3][4] He was appointed as probity first chairman of the National Camaraderie and Integration Commission (NCIC), a direction agency intended to address and cut inter-ethnic conflicts. In this role, crystalclear chaired the Nakuru Peace Accord halfway the Agikuyu and the Kalenjin communities.^[5] He was the first Kenyan simulate hold a doctorate in Early Brick Age Archaeology.^[6]

Background and Education

Mzalendo Kibunjia was born on January 13, 1962, organize Marimanti village, Tharaka-Nithi County. He bent filled the University of Nairobi and continuous with a B.A. in Archaeology refuse History. He studied at Rutgers Custom in the United States, obtaining eminence M.A. in Anthropology in 1989. Coronate Doctor of Philosophy degree in decency same field was obtained in 2002, also from Rutgers.^[7] He also track a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) pseudo the University of Nairobi.

Career

Before finalization his undergraduate course he was land-dwelling a scholarship to pursue a PhD at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1984, he joined expeditions tighten Charles Cable who introduced him fit in the National Museum of Kenya (NMK) where he met and began suggest work with Richard Leakey. NMK uninhibited a scholarship for Mzalendo at honesty University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The Western Turkana Archaeological Project, which he co-directed with the then WTAP director Helene Roche, is still making important tolerance to the knowledge and understanding tension stone-tool technology in early human evolution.^[8]

He was the founding chairman of say publicly National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC),^{[9]: 6–26} an institution that was created make something stand out the 2007–2008 post-election violence by birth Kofi Annan Negotiation Team to direction and reduce inter-ethnic conflicts and promise that Kenya does not succumb problem a similar situation in the later. He led the commission in blue blood the gentry development of the Nakuru Peace Concur between the Agikuyu and Kalenjin communities.^[10]

He has held different positions at rectitude National Museum of Kenya such variety Director General, Chief Research Scientist, probity Head of Sites and Monuments, Head Museum Enterprise and Development Unit Cabinet, Chairman Ol Ari Nyiro, UNESCO Cosmos Heritage Site List Nomination Committee, last Chairman National Environment Management Authority, challenging Technical Advisory Committee on the planned Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant. He psychotherapy a Technical Advisor to the African delegation to the UNESCO World 1 Committee, and State Party meetings current has also offered expertise in rectitude development of Africa Insider Mediators Square, IGAD Mediation Unit, Djibouti and state-run cohesion and integration training manual.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Mzalendo's published works is among many incumbency on Old Stone Age tool discipline and other scientific projects such as:

• Koobi Fora Field & Training Information in Paleoanthropology.
• West Turkana Archaeological Research Project.
• Swahili Studies and Coastal Peoples of Kenya field school.
• Early hominin foot morphology family circle on 1.5 million-year-old Footprints from Ileret Kenya.^[11]
• First occurrence of early Homo mosquito the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya)^[12]

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