Micere Githae Mugo Cause of Death

Kenyan playwright and activist, Micere Githae Mugo has been reported dead. According to close resources, she died on Friday, June 30, 23, after several years of battling cancer. She was 80 years old.

Born in 1942, she attended Alliance Girls High School in Kenya. She became one of the first black students to be allowed to enroll in what had previously been a segregated academy. She later attended Makerere University – where she gained her B. A. in 1966, and then the University of New Brunswick – gaining her M. A. in 1973, and the University of Toronto (Ph. D).

She took a teaching position job at the University of Nairobi in 1973, and in 1978 or 1980, became Dean of the Faculty of Arts, making her the first female faculty dean in Kenya. She also taught at the University of Nairobi and the University of Zimbabwe.

Githae Mugo was the founder and President of the Pan-African Community of Central New York where she initiated volunteer programs in two prisons. She was an official speaker of Amnesty International and a consultant for the “Africa of Horizon” series by Blackside.