Tributes poured in yesterday for Kavetsa Adagala, a former member of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission.
She died on Sunday at Vohovole village, Sabatia subcounty, Vihiga county.
Adagala will be buried on Saturday.
She was also a lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
Adagala will be remembered as an educationist and human rights campaigner.
Some political leaders have posted their tributes online, saying her death is a big loss.
One Mudembei Donde said,“She was my Literature teacher.”
Bungoma Governor Ken Lusaka said: “I am shocked. She was my lecturer.”
“It is shocking that the lovely woman has left us,” said Busia Governor Sospeter Ojaamong.
National Civil Society Congress coordinator Suba Churchill said: “Adagala was my aunt, teacher and mentor. She taught me the meaning of infatuation. I had always assumed it meant deep love. But she corrected that infatuation was maddening obsession with or for something or anyone usually ending in disaster.
She would cite the tragic flaws and ends of literary characters such as Othello and Oedipus to make her point.
If there is any commutative memory that Adagala has, it is that she is a heroine who brought fourth the best in literary appreciation for many students that passed through her hands.
At the Literature Department in University of Nairobi she did not easily suffer language illiterates.
She was combative, direct, arrogant and even confrontational when it meant teaching those who ‘mis-spoke’.
Self-effacing, her role in shaping the minds of young intellectuals while teaching at the university, minds that are today involved in one way or the other in shaping the destiny of this country, cannot be overestimated.”
