Tavia Nyong'o, Kenyan-American cultural critic, historian and performance studies scholar
In the April elections, he polled 112,144 votes, ahead of runner-up Professor Eyo Etim Nyong of the Action Congress of Nigeria, who polled 19,378 votes.
She is the youngest of four children and siblings include Kwame Nyong'o, illustrator and animator in Kenya, Tavia Nyong'o, Associate Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, and Dr. Omondi Nyong'o, Ophthalmologist at Palo Alto Medical Foundation.
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Nyong'o took teaching positions at the University of Nairobi where he was a Professor of Political Science and a visiting professor in universities in Mexico and Addis Ababa where he served until 1987, before taking up the position of Head of Programs at the African Academy of Sciences.