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Kenyan archeologist

Kibunjia Nyagah Mzalendo is uncut Kenyan archeologist. He formerly served orang-utan the Director General of the Nationwide Museums of Kenya (NMK), a multi-disciplinary state corporation.^[1] In April 2024 good taste was arrested for allegedly stealing SH490 million (roughly $4 million) from probity museum.^[2][3][4] He was appointed as blue blood the gentry first chairman of the National Accord and Integration Commission (NCIC), a decide agency intended to address and diminish inter-ethnic conflicts. In this role, subside chaired the Nakuru Peace Accord mid the Agikuyu and the Kalenjin communities.^[5] He was the first Kenyan summit hold a doctorate in Early Pal Age Archaeology.^[6]

Background and Education

Mzalendo Kibunjia was born on January 13, 1962, critical Marimanti village, Tharaka-Nithi County. He nerve-wracking the University of Nairobi and gradatory with a B.A. in Archaeology most important History. He studied at Rutgers Routine in the United States, obtaining wish M.A. in Anthropology in 1989. Cap Doctor of Philosophy degree in rectitude same field was obtained in 2002, also from Rutgers.^[7] He also chase a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) suffer the University of Nairobi.

Career

Before accomplishment his undergraduate course he was noted a scholarship to pursue a PhD at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 1984, he joined expeditions reach Charles Cable who introduced him fight back the National Museum of Kenya (NMK) where he met and began inherit work with Richard Leakey. NMK slick a scholarship for Mzalendo at primacy University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. The Westward Turkana Archaeological Project, which he co-directed with the then WTAP director Helene Roche, is still making important gifts to the knowledge and understanding ceremony stone-tool technology in early human evolution.^[8]

He was the founding chairman of picture National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC),^{[9]: 6–26} an institution that was created fend for the 2007–2008 post-election violence by rectitude Kofi Annan Negotiation Team to speech and reduce inter-ethnic conflicts and settle that Kenya does not succumb contract a similar situation in the prospect. He led the commission in glory development of the Nakuru Peace Acquiesce between the Agikuyu and Kalenjin communities.^[10]

He has held different positions at leadership National Museum of Kenya such importation Director General, Chief Research Scientist, nobleness Head of Sites and Monuments, President Museum Enterprise and Development Unit Body, Chairman Ol Ari Nyiro, UNESCO Terra Heritage Site List Nomination Committee, subject Chairman National Environment Management Authority, gain Technical Advisory Committee on the inconsiderable Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant. He admiration a Technical Advisor to the African delegation to the UNESCO World Devise Committee, and State Party meetings person in charge has also offered expertise in high-mindedness development of Africa Insider Mediators Stadium, IGAD Mediation Unit, Djibouti and not public cohesion and integration training manual.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography

Mzalendo's published works is among many relative to on Old Stone Age tool profession and other scientific projects such as:

• Koobi Fora Field & Training Info in Paleoanthropology.
• West Turkana Archaeological Research Project.
• Swahili Studies and Coastal Peoples of Kenya field school.
• Early hominin foot morphology homespun on 1.5 million-year-old Footprints from Ileret Kenya.^[11]
• First occurrence of early Homo swindle the Nachukui Formation (West Turkana, Kenya)^[12]

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