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    "id": 493345,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/493345/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bunyasi",
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        "legal_name": "John Sakwa Bunyasi",
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    "content": "He was a great historian, but a controversial one as some few might recall, particularly with the BBC sponsored series on issues of heritage and what African heritage should be. That was controversial. That is a debate that we will carry on long after he is gone. Hon. Speaker, while I was also at the Diaspora for at least 30 years, we looked up to him as an excellent scholar that carried the African and the Kenyan flags high. Life has been pulled out of that body and soul that was a great light to the entire continent. I rest my statement by wishing the family of the late Professor well. From the Professor, we can emulate the fact that issues of public policy in leadership must be open to continuous and active debate borne out of some thinking and intellectualism, to lift it off from the raw differences that seem to split us all the time. As I speak, for example, issues of leadership in Kenya are right at the forefront. We have gone presidential system, we have sub-national governments and there are some legitimate public policy debates that we need to carry on devoid of the raw reactions that we tend to fall into. Prof. Mazrui would have given us an example there that this is a debate that we should be fairly engaged in at all levels; namely, at the sub-national and national levels. If we do that, Mazrui is not going to die. He is gone but he will live on with us given the volume of space he has created and the volume of materials that he has given us to use as we occupy that space. I look forward to another Ali Mazrui in this current generation. Thank you."
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