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Katama Mkangi

Died in 2004

Katama Mkangi was born in 1944 in Ribe, in Kilifi County, on the Kenyan coast. A graduate in education of the University of Dar es Salaam in 1971, he obtained a master's degree and then, in 1978, a doctorate in the sociology of development at the University of Sussex. An academic committed to democracy, he was detained without trial from 1986 to 1988 for his links with a clandestine movement favouring multipartyism, stood in the 1997 presidential election and taught sociology in Nairobi. He died on 6 March 2004.

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