Ochieng’, the solid public intellectual who was a blessing to Kenya

By Samwel Okuro

To the global community of historians, Saturday 28 December 2013 will go down as a sad day. It was the day Professor William Robert Ochieng’ passed on quietly at Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu. To some of us he touched directly, William, just as in death, is celebrated as a quintessential person of science, a legend and extra-ordinary mind to have emerged from the east African region.