Academician and renowned author Prof Joseph Nyasani died yesterday at the age of 79.
Nyasani died at the Agha Khan Hospital, Nairobi.
He has been admitted at the facility since January 1.
“His condition has been on and off. But he died from cardiac arrest,” a family member told the Star.
Nyasani, a pioneer professor in the country, has been living with a bullet lodged in his brain for 21 years.
The professor has authored more than 40 books.
Nyasani broke a 300-year record by writing his dissertation in Latin while doing his doctorate degree in Germany in 1963.
He worked at the UN secretariat in New York as a political affairs officer in 1971.
