PROFESSOR BETHWELL A. OGOT is Emeritus Professor of History at Maseno University where he also founded the Institute of Research and Postgraduate Studies and held the UNESCO Chair for Higher Education in Africa … Read More
He was the first Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nairobi from 1970-1973. He has taught at Makerere University, the University of Nairobi – where he founded the Institute of Development Studies and the Institute of African Studies – and at Kenyatta University. He was President of the International Scientific Committee for the preparation of UNESCO’s Eight Volume General History of Africa and a member of the Editorial Board of the International Commission for UNESCO’s History of Humanity. His latest works include History of the Luo Speaking Peoples of Eastern Africa (2009), Who, if Anyone Owns the Past? (2010), Kenyans, Who are We? (2013), History of African Civilizations in the Nile Valley (2016), and History of Nairobi 1899-2012 (2020).
