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    "id": 493332,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493332/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyenze",
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        "legal_name": "Francis Mwanzia Nyenze (Deceased)",
        "slug": "francis-mwanzia-nyenze"
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    "content": "office and asked that he should be released. He later organised for Prof. Oculi to leave Uganda. The current Technical University of Mombasa was a product of his effort to take university education closer to his people in Mombasa, when he was the Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). Hon. Speaker, Prof. Mazrui used his brilliant mind to traverse the world articulating African and global issues. He wore the badge of Pan-Africanism proudly as he stood up for the rights of the oppressed in Africa and in the global South. Indeed, Kenyan scholars have much to learn from Prof. Mazrui, who enriched the global debate on issues while some Kenyan scholars were busy advancing some petty and narrow ethnic agendas. Despite coming from a strict Muslim background and being the son of the Chief Kadhi of Kenya, Prof. Mazrui married two Christian women; one from Great Britain and another one from Nigeria. This shows that he embraced everybody and everyone and preached tolerance in words and in deeds. As I conclude, I urge the Government and Kenyans to honour the legacy of Prof. Mazrui by promoting free speech. The fundamental freedoms are a prerequisite for the building of a civilized and a democratic society, where people are judged by conviction of their ideals and not by their tribes. Since 1966, when he got his PhD, Prof. Ali Mazrui never worked in any Kenyan university as a lecturer. We must avoid the conditions that have made our best minds go into exile. Prof. Mazrui may be gone but through his numerous works and deeds, he has attained immortality. His name shall live forever and will be mentioned alongside William Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe, Walter Rodney, Kofi Awoonah, Wole Soyinka, Leo Tolstoy, Okot P’ Bitek and others, who have etched their legacy on indelible and unforgettable way on the sands of time. Thank you, hon. Speaker."
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