Peter Anyang' Nyong'o

When Jesus was born in Nazareth many years ago and rumours had it that he was the long awaited Messiah who would bring salvation to humankind, many did not believe the rumours.

It is often said a prophet is not appreciated in his own home. For quite a long time this was true of Ali Mazrui. Though a Kenyan, and the first to become a professor of Political Science in the then prestigious Makerere University, he rarely gave lectures in his own country.