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President Kenyatta Mourns Renowned Scholar Prof Mbiti


By The Nation, Kenya
Tuesday October 8 2019
Kenyan born author and theology professor John S Mbiti
Author and theology professor John Samuel Mbiti, who died in Switzerland on Sunday. He was one of the world's iconic theology and philosophy scholars. PHOTO | COURTESY 
 
 President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of condolence to the family of renowned Kenyan theology professor and philosopher Prof John Samuel Mbiti, who died at the age of 88 on Sunday while undergoing treatment in Bergdorf, Switzerland where he lived for decades.


In his message, the President described the late Mbiti as an accomplished Kenyan scholar and priest who was a great ambassador of the Kenyan nation abroad.

"We've lost a great Kenyan. A great man who went against all odds to become a successful scholar, writer and priest. He was a role model and an ambassador of the Kenyan brand abroad," the President wrote.

Prof Mbiti was a theologian and philosophy professor at the University of Bern and an Anglican Church clergy in Burgodorf at the time of his death.

He also taught religion and theology at Makerere University between 1964 and 1974 before becoming the director of the World Council of Churches Ecumenical Institute in Switzerland.

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