Peter Kagwanja

Peter Kagwanja is a Kenyan intellectual, adviser, reform strategist and policy thinker on governance, security and African affairs. From the early 1990s, Kagwanja was associated with Kenyas prodemocracy movement through his research and writings in the media, and was one of the founders of the University Academic Staff Union . As an emigre in South Africa , he was in the team of experts that provided technical backing to the intense policy processes that led to the creation of the African Union and its peace and security architecture. When Kenyas opposition ascended to power, Kagwanja became part of the technical team that reengineered and realigned the countrys foreign policy and strategy to the challenges of the 21st century. He became government adviser on the post2008 reform agenda and strategy managed its successful campaign for the New Constitution of Kenya and provided strategic thinking towards the transition to the postKibaki order. Kagwanja is a public intellectual who has

Peter Kagwanja was born on August 8, 1963 in Kenyanjeru village, Rwathia location of Kangema Division, Muranga County in central Kenya. His parents moved to Maragua town, 89 kilometers North of Nairobi, where he attended Kianjiruini Primary School before proceeding to Kirogo Secondary School and Kangaru High School. Kagwanja received a Bachelor of Education Degree and a Master of Arts degree from Kenyatta University. His Masters thesis, which won a grant from the Council for the Development of Social Research in Africa , examined the role of panAfrican trade union movement in Kenyas freedom struggle. Kagwanja won the Fulbright Fellowship to study at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, where he obtained a doctorate degree, specializing in history, politics and international law.

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