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How are people different yet the same? Humphrey W. Muciiri, Ph.D. and Mary Nyambura Muchiri, Ph.D. are authors and have lived in Kenya and will share their personal stories. Registration is requested but not required.
Dr. Humphrey Muciiri will talk about his latest book: The United States and Kenya: How Similar or Different are the Two Nations? This was written as a result of a perceived need by students, educators, missionaries, business people, tourists, and other professions from both the United States and Kenya. Dr. Mary Muchiri has written seven books and will share from her books. They will bring copies of their books to sell and autograph.
After their presentation, Yee Lim Shin, the current president of Students without Borders, will share details about Dordt University's cultural fair scheduled for Saturday, February 19, 5-7.
Humphrey W. Muciiri earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya, a master of arts degree from Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya, and a Ph.D. from Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S.A. Over three decades before coming to the United States, Humphrey worked as a manufacturing executive for three multinational corporations, traveled and worked in different parts of the world. Before retirement, he worked as an adjunct professor at Indiana Wesleyan University in the United States. Humphrey’s first book is titled, Sons and Dads: Who will Reconcile Them? It discusses two sons, their dads, the trials and tribulations they encountered, and finally how they got reconciled. Currently, he is in the process of writing his life story before embarking on another writing project.
Mary Nyambura Muchiri is a retired associate professor of English of Taylor University, Indiana, U.S.A. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Lancaster University, U.K. She came to the U.S. in 2001 from Kenya and became a citizen in 2012.
After retirement, she continues to write and run a not-for-profit organization, AMSHA Foundation Inc. Its mission is to assist needy Kenyan Christian students with payment of university and post-secondary fees. She also volunteers at a local middle school through the Foster Grandparents program.
Her interests are reading and writing, higher education, spiritual development, women and minority issues.
Her books can all be purchased from Amazon.com. They include:
1. Saved Through Fire: A Family Experiences Kenya’s War of Independence, Guardian Books.
2. Papers on Language and Culture: An African Perspective, Author House.
3. His Banner over Me Is Love: The Dreams of an African Woman. Author House.
4. The Power of Story: Global Myths on the Origins and Character of Black People. Publish America
5. You Have Been Chosen: The Identity of an Adopted Child. Trafford Publishing.
6. False Labels and Faces of Grace: Other People’s Labels of Us Never Describe Our Full Identity. Book Art Press. NY.
7. In Progress: Becoming a Kenyan American: Lessons on immigration. With the help Self-Publishing School
She has also contributed chapters in Changing Images by Anna P.Obura (Ed.); Society and the Language Classroom by Hawel Coleman (Ed.); On Writing Research: The Braddock Essays 1975-1998 by Lisa Ede (Ed.), and Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective edited by David Foster and David R. Russell.