Filemona F. Indire
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| name = Filemona F. Indire
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| native_name_lang = Maragoli
| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|03|3|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vihiga, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya
| death_date = {{death date and age|2025|3|15|1930|3|3|df=y}}
| death_place = Nairobi, Kenya
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| education = Prince of Wales School (now Nairobi School)
| alma_mater = Makerere University, Ball State Teachers College
| occupation = Teacher, academic, politician, diplomat
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| office = Ambassador of Kenya to the Soviet Union
| term=1960s
| office2 = Nominated Member of Parliament, Ambassador
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Filemona F. Indire (3 March 1930 – 15 March 2025) was a Kenyan politician who served as a nominated Member of the Parliament of Kenya between 1983 and 1988. He was also Kenya's ambassador to the Soviet Union in the 1960s, during Kenya's first president Jomo Kenyatta's tenure. After that, he served as a lecturer at the University of Nairobi.
Indire was also an influential Quaker, having served as Chairman of the Friend's World Committee for Consultation Africa Section, a Quaker organization that worked to communicate between all parts of Quakerism in 1970s.{{Cite web|title=About FWCC Africa – FWCC Africa|url=https://www.fwccafrica.org/about/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-29}} He was also the Chairman of the National Council for Science and Technology in Nairobi, Kenya.{{cite book|editor1-last=Makau|editor1-first=B.F.|editor2-last=Oduwo|editor2-first=R.N.|title=Proceedings of the National Conference on Cooperation Between The Private Sector, Public Research Institutes And Universities in Research, Innovation And Diffusion of Technologies|date=July 1989|publisher=National Council for Science and Technology|url=http://oris.nacosti.go.ke/modules/library/publications/research_reports/NACOSTI-DL-RR-1039.pdf|accessdate=22 January 2016}}
Background
Indire was born in Vihiga, Colony and Protectorate of Kenya on 3 March 1930. He married Abigail Indire, one of the first of 10 African-Kenyan girls to attend high school in Kenya's history.{{cite AV media| url-status = live| archive-url = https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/fPfPAnbOBZ0| archive-date = 2021-12-09| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPfPAnbOBZ0| title = HER SAY {{!}} Abigail kageha, among 10 first black alliance girls students | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
Filemona F. Indire died in Nairobi on 15 March 2025, at the age of 95.[https://peopledaily.digital/news/mudavadi-mourns-renowned-educationist-filemona-fundi-indire Mudavadi mourns renowned educationist Filemona Fundi Indire]
Works
Professor Indire wrote several books including A Comprehensive High School Curriculum Proposal for Reviewing and Revising the Program of Chavakali Secondary School, Maragoli, Kenya (1962) This study centred on the development of a curriculum which would assist in adequately meeting the needs of high-school students in Western Kenya. Another study that Indire wrote, was a series of 15 books in collaboration with John W. Hanson, Secondary Level Teachers: Supply and Demand in Kenya.
The study, published in 1971, was a report on the supply of secondary-level teachers in Kenya. It focused on the problem of forecasting the likely demand for non-Kenyan personnel for staffing secondary-level institutions up to the year 1975, and it attempted to analyze the very real problem (at the time) of teacher supply within the context of the social and economic conditions of Kenya during the period leading up to the mid-1970s.
Other topics examined included the projected expansion of other types of secondary-level education, programmes for the preparation of teachers, major factors in teacher recruitment and retention, projected gaps in the teaching force, priorities in the provision and use of expatriate teachers, and recommendations of primary concern to Kenyan authorities of the day.
=Davy Koech Commission Report=
Indire was a member of the Commission of Inquiry into the Education System of Kenya commonly referred to as the Davy Koech Commission.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} The commission was established on 15 May 1998, by the president of Kenya at the time, Daniel Arap Moi.
Bibliography
- {{cite book|last1=Indire|first1=Filemona F. |title=A Comprehensive High School Curriculum Proposal for Reviewing and Revising the Program of Chavakali Secondary School, Maragoli, Kenya.|publisher= Indiana University. |year=1962}}
- {{cite book|last1=Indire|first1=Filemona F.|first2=John W. |last2=Hanson |title=Secondary Level Teachers: Supply and Demand in Kenya |publisher= African Studies Center, Michigan State University |year=1971}}
- {{cite book|last1=Indire|first1=Filemona F. |title=A history of the development of teacher education in Kenya |publisher= Faculty of Education, University of Nairobi |year=1974}}
References
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Sources
- http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/89063
- http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/89065
- http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/89061
- http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/89064
- http://oris.nacosti.go.ke/modules/library/publications/research_reports/NACOSTI-DL-RR-1039.pdf
- http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke/handle/11295/8022/browse?value=Indire%2C+Filemona+F&type=author
External links
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPfPAnbOBZ0
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Category:Members of the National Assembly (Kenya)