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Nyambura Njoroge
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Nyambura Njoroge has made immense contribution to African ethics and religious studies.Battling against patriarchy, poor leadership, stigma, and discrimination, she has consistently called for “abundant life for all.” She is an avid promoter of “talitha cum” hermeneutics (see for example, Njoroge and Dube 2001), where the emphasis is on bringing African women and girls to life in its fullness. Promoting ecumenism, challenging harmful norms and values, and advancing the cause of women in Africa and globally, she has been unrelenting in her quest for freedom and dignity. Unsurprisingly, she has championed “an African Christian feminist ethic of resistance and transformation” (Njoroge 2000). In keeping with African women’s theologies, where she is one of the leading voices, Nyambura has called for persistence and vigilance since, “... the ideology of patriarchy is alive in the church and in theological schools” (Mombo 2019: 459). Even when the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc globally in 2020, Nyambura spoke against sexual and gender-based violence, stigma, inequality, and other forces of death. She proclaimed, “COVID-19 does not have the final word!” Women’s issues have preoccupied Nyambura’s mission and calling, leading to her insistence that faith communities in Africa must not add to women’s burdens.

notability
An early, active and consistent member of the International Network of Religious Leaders Living with and Personally Affected by HIV & AIDS (INERELA +), Nyambura has devoted a significant part of her life and career to the ecumenical response to HIV & AIDS (Kurian 2016). She has reflected on the key drivers of the epidemic and has challenged religious leaders to be compassionate and act in solidarity with people living with HIV. Her activism and scholarship within the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (the Circle), where she is one of the founding members, is equally noteworthy. At its fifth Pan African Conference in Gaborone, Botswana, in July 2019, the Circle awarded Nyambura the Mercy Amba Oduyoye Global Leadership Award and the Circle Community Champion Award.

radical Pan African liberationist movement. She detests Africa’s marginalisation in the global economic and political (dis)order, maintaining that it stems from the history of the exploitation and marginalisation of the continent. She is proudly African,

womens rights and fight agaisnmt partriarch and oppressive systems, cultural systems, gender norms and values that oppress women and hinder them from living fulfilld lives as men in societies

works
(Kanyoro and Njoroge 1996),

Njoroge 1997

(Njoroge 2009

Njoroge 2010

Dube and Njoroge 2004

Njoroge 2012