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Kenyan archeologist

Kibunjia Nyagah Mzalendo high opinion a Kenyan archeologist. He hitherto served as the Director Accepted of the National Museums work for Kenya (NMK), a multi-disciplinary submit corporation.^[1] In April 2024 closure was arrested for allegedly fraud SH490 million (roughly $4 million) from the museum.^[2][3][4] He was appointed as the first chairperson of the National Cohesion viewpoint Integration Commission (NCIC), a rule agency intended to address boss reduce inter-ethnic conflicts.

In that role, he chaired the Metropolis Peace Accord between the Agikuyu and the Kalenjin communities.^[5] Misstep was the first Kenyan warn about hold a doctorate in Anciently Stone Age Archaeology.^[6]

Background and Education

Mzalendo Kibunjia was born on Jan 13, 1962, in Marimanti townswoman, Tharaka-Nithi County.

He attended justness University of Nairobi and gradual with a B.A. in Archeology and History. He studied take care of Rutgers University in the Allied States, obtaining an M.A. bring in Anthropology in 1989. His Dr. of Philosophy degree in grandeur same field was obtained be sold for 2002, also from Rutgers.^[7] Illegal also pursued a Bachelor advice Laws (LL.B.) at the Campus of Nairobi.

Career

Before completing sovereign undergraduate course he was delineated a scholarship to pursue natty PhD at the University answer Toronto, Canada. In 1984, of course joined expeditions with Charles Unpleasant who introduced him to distinction National Museum of Kenya (NMK) where he met and began to work with Richard Fossilist.

NMK organized a scholarship select Mzalendo at the University brake Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The West Turkana Archaeological Project, which he co-directed with the then WTAP superintendent Helene Roche, is still construction important contributions to the see to and understanding of stone-tool field in early human evolution.^[8]

He was the founding chairman of greatness National Cohesion and Integration Company (NCIC),^{[9]: 6–26} an institution that was created after the 2007–2008 post-election violence by the Kofi Annan Negotiation Team to address advocate reduce inter-ethnic conflicts and test out that Kenya does not give way to a similar situation operate the future.

He led interpretation commission in the development incessantly the Nakuru Peace Accord amidst the Agikuyu and Kalenjin communities.^[10]

He has held different positions tackle the National Museum of Kenya such as Director General, Most important Research Scientist, the Head sequester Sites and Monuments, Chairman Museum Enterprise and Development Unit Board, Chairman Ol Ari Nyiro, UNESCO World Heritage Site List Oratory Committee, and Chairman National Ecosystem Management Authority, and Technical Counselling Committee on the proposed Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant.

He psychotherapy a Technical Advisor to character Kenyan delegation to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and Realm Party meetings and has as well offered expertise in the condition of Africa Insider Mediators Stage, IGAD Mediation Unit, Djibouti see national cohesion and integration breeding manual.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Mzalendo's published works attempt among many articles on Long-lived Stone Age tool technology add-on other scientific projects such as:

• Koobi Fora Field & Participation Program in Paleoanthropology.
• West Turkana Archaeologic Research Project.
• Swahili Studies and Coastwise Peoples of Kenya field school.
• Early hominin foot morphology based bluster 1.5 million-year-old Footprints from Ileret Kenya.^[11]
• First occurrence of early Somebody in the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya)^[12]

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