Willy Mutunga
Willy Mutunga was the Chief Justice & President of the Supreme Court in Kenya between 2011 and 2016. He is an Adjunct Professor in Public Law, Kabarak University Law School.
When considering African liberation in the 21st century, we now understand that cultural, spiritual, and sexuality related struggles for liberation are no less than struggles for economic and political liberation. In a necessary reflection that weaves both religious prescriptions and constitutional law, we distinguish clearly the need for Africa to reject Western imposition of culture wars uncharacteristic of cultural and moral heritage and experiences.
Tagged under Global South & Transnational Struggles
A jurisprudential analysis of liberated sexuality and spirituality in the Kenyan context.
Tagged under Gender & Social Justice Kenya
France pivots in East Africa as it is increasingly expelled from West Africa. Given its abysmal and destructive record in West Africa, the 2026 Franco-Africa forward summit raises several questions for Global Africa.
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Mutunga interrogates the tagging of protesters in Kenya’s mass action as terrorists and unveils acts of terrorism and the perpetrators that should be so characterized.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya
Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government's attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization
In a world where diversities in spirituality are weaponized to divide peoples, bridges across spiritual practices are emerging to ensure constitutional strive towards equity, equality, and inclusivity of religious inclinations succeeds. Mutunga explores this development in Kenya.
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Mutunga recounts the maltreatment, suppressive and dictatorial experiences he and his colleagues from Kenya and Uganda endured under the Tanzania leadership in efforts to visit the country and solidarize with the Opposition Chadema Party leader, Lissu’s trial on alleged treason charges.
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Mutunga assesses the intellectual, ideological, and political challenges in creating a pro-people African future, and offers a daring call for a leadership unperturbed by the possibility of saboteur assassinations.
Tagged under Global Pan-Africanism
Willy Mutunga highlights milestones in the integration of indigenous legal systems with European court systems in Kenya, emphasizing remaining tasks in ensuring justice for all and social transformation in Kenya
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Willy Mutunga highlights the limits on religious practices and observances within Kenya as failures of the 2010 Constitution as contextualized within the broader struggles taking place within the country.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya Kenya
Willy Mutunga exposes the lies of existing Kenyan leadership pacts, and highlights the birth of an alternative political leadership.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya Kenya
Former Chief Justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga discusses the revolutionary ramifications of the uprising of Kenya’s youths in June 2024 for new leadership pathways and a New Kenya.
Tagged under Advocacy & Solidarity Kenya
Former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga poses questions addressing the power imbalances in Kenya’s recent trade agreements with the USA.
Dear Dr. Ndii,
I congratulate you on your appointment by President Ruto as the Chair of the Economic Advisory Council.
Tagged under Popular Participation & Democratization Kenya Kenya
Former Chief Justice of Kenya, Willy Mutunga, gives a special tribute to Samir Amin.
Kenya’s elite is stunted, self-absorbed and unable to build a just, equitable, peaceful and prosperous society that guarantees material resources to all its citizens. The country is ripe for a revolution. And Kenya is slowly building a new alternative to the current elite. Nobody says it is going to be easy, but the first steps in the journey of decolonization and freedom are being taken.
Tagged under Popular Participation & DemocratizationDays to the March 4 elections a gang purporting to act in the interest of Jubilee Coalition presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta threatens the Supreme Court president, who also complains of harassment by the all-powerful Head of the Civil Service and Secretary to the Cabinet, Francis Kimemia
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Kenya’s new chief justice Willy Mutunga says that living by the constitution means that all Kenyans – from the tiniest hut to State House – must do what it requires, when it is required, whatever the cost in finance, effort or personal convenience.
Tagged under GovernanceI can write a book on Issa's contributions in various fields he has undertaken. For now, I need to remind all movements that seek to liberate Africa of two of his contributions that are, perhaps, not so obvious: 1) I do not know of any other African revolutionary who, after the so-called collapse of socialism and communism, unwaveringly gave intellectual leadership in support of the revolutionary paradigms that imperialism, through its ideological, intellectual, economic, social, cultural and political engines, sought to bury with the rubble of the Berlin wall; 2) As a Tanzanian, East African and African, Issa has defended Mwalimu's great legacy courageously and consistently.
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