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Mbiti: Scholar who thrived on rare ideological nourishment

Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga (right) during the launch of the Kiikamba Bible by Prof John Mbiti (centre) at AIC Mulango, Kitui County, in March 2015. [File, Standard]

This will be a short testimony in remembrance of mukuua (elder brother) John Mbiti.

He always addressed me as mwinawa (younger brother). I intend to write a lengthier appreciation of his life and work for a future memorial conference in his honour and brilliance as a philosopher, theologian and a public intellectual of great stature. Articles written for that conference will be published in a book.

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