PREMIUM Burudi Nabwera: Diplomat who introduced Kibaki to Oginga calls it a day Weekly Review Just now
Burudi Nabwera, who passed on Friday at 99, was among independent Kenya’s first crop of diplomats, which included Adala Otuko (Soviet Union) T.
As a diplomat to the important diplomatic station of Washington and as a Permanent Representative to the United Nations during the wave of decolonization across Africa and Cold War, Nabwera projected Kenya’s nationalist image at the UN while also fostering early trade, and economic ties and security cooperation between the US and Kenya.
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