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Theologian & Pro-Democracy Activist
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Reverend Dr. Timothy Murere Njoya (born 7 April 1941) is a Kenyan theologian and one of the most prominent church voices behind the country’s Second Liberation. Ordained in 1967 in the Presbyterian Church of East Africa, he served parishes including Chuka, Tumutumu, Mathari, St. Andrews Nairobi, Dagoretti, and Kinoo before retiring in 2011. He holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and later received a Doctor of Divinity from Knox College, University of Toronto. His pulpit advocacy for multiparty democracy and human rights brought repeated clashes with President Daniel arap Moi’s regime; he was suspended and transferred by PCEA leadership in 1987 but later reinstated. He was badly beaten by police during Saba Saba–related protests in 1997, an incident widely reported at the time. Njoya’s intellectual and public work continued after the return of plural politics. He contributed essays and commentary on church–state ethics, women’s rights, and constitutional reform, and in 2017 published his memoir, We the People: Thinking Heavenly, Acting Kenyanly. Profiles and interviews describe his continued engagement in civic activism and scholarship into the 2020s.
Key figure in Kenya's 'Second Liberation' (pro-democracy movement)
Used the pulpit for political activism against the one-party state
Famously beaten by police at Uhuru Park while protesting (1997)
His activist sermons were highly controversial and condemned by the KANU government.
He was temporarily defrocked by the PCEA leadership in 1s990 due to his political stance, before being reinstated.
Recipient of multiple human rights awards
Author and theologian