Obituary from ROAPE Volume 35 Number 117
We remember Apollo L Njonjo

Apollo Njonjo, a former contributor to ROAPE’s issue, ‘Kenya: The Agrarian Question’ (No. 20, March 1981) died in Nairobi on 6 March 2008 after twenty five years of dealing with a heart condition complicated by diabetes. He was born in Limuru, attending distinguished local primary and secondary schools even during Mau Mau and the Emergency. He graduated with honors in history and government from the University of Nairobi in 1970. He then went to Princeton University, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, receiving his doctorate from the Department of Politics in 1977. His Ph.D. thesis on ‘The Africanization of the “White Highlands“ and the Agrarian Class Struggle in Kenya’ remains a classic and still is widely cited.