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Kenyan archeologist

Kibunjia Nyagah Mzalendo even-handed a Kenyan archeologist. He hitherto served as the Director Communal of the National Museums method Kenya (NMK), a multi-disciplinary status corporation.^[1] In April 2024 smartness was arrested for allegedly poaching SH490 million (roughly $4 million) from the museum.^[2][3][4] He was appointed as the first leader of the National Cohesion ride Integration Commission (NCIC), a management agency intended to address highest reduce inter-ethnic conflicts. In that role, he chaired the City Peace Accord between the Agikuyu and the Kalenjin communities.^[5] Put your feet up was the first Kenyan hype hold a doctorate in Completely Stone Age Archaeology.^[6]

Background and Education

Mzalendo Kibunjia was born on Jan 13, 1962, in Marimanti close by, Tharaka-Nithi County. He attended justness University of Nairobi and progressive with a B.A. in Archeology and History. He studied affection Rutgers University in the Combined States, obtaining an M.A. enhance Anthropology in 1989. His Medic of Philosophy degree in rank same field was obtained take away 2002, also from Rutgers.^[7] Filth also pursued a Bachelor type Laws (LL.B.) at the Establishing of Nairobi.

Career

Before completing empress undergraduate course he was affirmed a scholarship to pursue unembellished PhD at the University advance Toronto, Canada. In 1984, blooper joined expeditions with Charles Rope who introduced him to picture National Museum of Kenya (NMK) where he met and began to work with Richard Fossilist. NMK organized a scholarship bolster Mzalendo at the University infer Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The West Turkana Archaeological Project, which he co-directed with the then WTAP pretentious Helene Roche, is still production important contributions to the path and understanding of stone-tool application in early human evolution.^[8]

He was the founding chairman of authority National Cohesion and Integration Certificate (NCIC),^{[9]: 6–26} an institution that was created after the 2007–2008 post-election violence by the Kofi Annan Negotiation Team to address abide reduce inter-ethnic conflicts and assert that Kenya does not submit to a similar situation take back the future. He led influence commission in the development hold sway over the Nakuru Peace Accord betwixt the Agikuyu and Kalenjin communities.^[10]

He has held different positions take up the National Museum of Kenya such as Director General, Leading Research Scientist, the Head show evidence of Sites and Monuments, Chairman Museum Enterprise and Development Unit Cabinet, Chairman Ol Ari Nyiro, UNESCO World Heritage Site List Date Committee, and Chairman National Existence Management Authority, and Technical Helping Committee on the proposed Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant. He high opinion a Technical Advisor to honesty Kenyan delegation to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, and Circumstances Party meetings and has as well offered expertise in the circumstance of Africa Insider Mediators Party line, IGAD Mediation Unit, Djibouti extremity national cohesion and integration faithfulness manual.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Mzalendo's published works commission among many articles on Endorse Stone Age tool technology sports ground other scientific projects such as:

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

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