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Anyang' Nyong'o | |
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Governor of Kisumu County [1] | |
Assumed office 22 August 2017 | |
Deputy | Mathew Ochieng’Owili |
1st Senator of Kisumu County | |
In office 28 March 2013 –8 August 2017 | |
Succeeded by | Frederick Outa Otieno |
Minister of Medical Services | |
In office 2008–2013 | |
President | Mwai Kibaki |
Member of the Kenyan Parliament | |
In office 2003–2013 | |
Constituency | Kisumu Rural |
Personal details | |
Born | Peter Anyang' Nyong'o 10 October 1943 Ratta,Kisumu,Kenya |
Political party | ODM |
Spouse | Dorothy Ogada Buyu Nyong'o [2] |
Children | 5,including Lupita |
Alma mater | Makerere University (BA) University of Chicago (MA,PhD) |
Notable Awards | German-African Award (1995) Africa Brain Gain Award (2005) |
Website | Website Official Twitter |
Peter Anyang' Nyong'o (born 10 October 1943),politically known as Anyang' Nyong'o,is a Kenyan politician and author [3] who is the Governor of Kisumu County. He is a former Secretary-General of Orange Democratic Movement (the current Secretary-General is Edwin Sifuna). Professor Nyong'o was the acting party leader from March 11 until late May when Raila Odinga was in the United States [4] and was elected to the National Assembly of Kenya in the December 2007 parliamentary election,representing the Kisumu Rural Constituency. [5] He was the Minister for Medical Services and previously the Minister for Planning &National Development. He previously served as the Senator of Kisumu from 2013 to 2017.
Nyong'o was born in Ratta,Kisumu,Kenya. [2] He completed his undergraduate studies at Uganda's Makerere University,where he was awarded a first class honours degree in political science. He Served as Guild president of Makerere in 1969/70. He thereafter proceeded to his graduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago,where he obtained an MA and a PhD in political science in 1977.
Nyong'o took teaching positions at the University of Nairobi,where he was a professor of political science and a visiting professor in universities in Mexico and Addis Ababa. Here,he served until 1987,before taking up the position of head of programs at the African Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the Kenyan Senate representing Kisumu County from March 4,2013 to August 8,2017 having been elected on an ODM (Orange Democratic Movement) Party ticket. He is a former Member of Parliament for Kisumu Rural constituency,having been elected on a NARC ticket in the December 2002. His political career dates back to 1992,when he was first elected to parliament. He served as a nominated MP from 1998 to 2002. [6] From 2003 to 2005,Nyong'o served as the Minister for Planning and National Development,and from 2008 to 2013 he was the Minister for Medical Services. [3]
Nyong'o is credited for actively engaging in the movement for Kenya's second liberation during the previous KANU regime. [7] For his contribution to scholarship and democratization,Nyong'o received a German-African Award in 1995.
From October to December 2013,Nyong'o was a Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role,he taught a course in the Department of Global Health and Population titled "Leadership Development in Global Health and Policy-Making in Kenya:The Case of Four Parastatals."
In 2023,United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed Nyong’o to his Advisory Group on Local and Regional Governments,co-chaired by Pilar Cancela Rodríguez and Fatimatou Abdel Malick. [8]
His children are Academy Award winning actress Lupita Nyong'o, [9] Fiona Nyong'o, [10] Esperanza Nyong'o, [11] Zawadi Nyong'o,and Peter Nyong'o,who plays soccer as a goalkeeper. [10]
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