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    "content": "believed in liberal democracy and I think he went to support Ngugi wa Thiong’o not because they agreed ideologically, but because he felt that irrespective of your beliefs, you should fight for freedom of speech. That is why he joined those who were picketing in front of the High Commission of Kenya in London in defense of the freedom of speech. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we pay tribute to Prof. Ali Mazrui today, let us remember that the forces which forced him out of this country and the ideologies which made it impossible for this great Kenyan scholar to teach in Kenya could come back again and force other academicians to follow the same path as Prof. Mazrui. Madam Temporary Speaker, we should not just sing and glorify Prof. Mazrui as a hero when he is dead; we should have sung and glorified him when he was alive. I want to thank the former President of this country, President Mwai Kibaki, because he is the one who recognized Prof. Mazrui. He called him from exile to come and become the Chancellor of Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) in those days. If you want to pay accolade to our scholars, if you want to recognize great Kenyans, let us not wait until they die and then we say how great they were. Let us recognize them as great people when they are alive. Where I come from, we say “why do you come with flowers after I am dead when I cannot see the flowers? Why do you come to my funeral in big motorcades after I am dead when while I was alive, you could not even shake hands with me?”"
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