A Profile Spotlight series by Edit One Kenya. Who Is Dr. Rispah Wepukhulu?
EoK SPOTLIGHT | The Legacy Lens "Dr. Rispah Wepukhulu : Where Books, Brains, and Boldness Converge" If wisdom had a voice, it would sound like Dr. Rispah Wepukhulu’s: calm yet commanding, humble but unwavering. The hills of Bungoma may know her as a daughter of the soil, but Kenya knows her as the iron-willed torchbearer of education, gender justice, and social transformation. From lecture halls to national boards, she’s never just shown up, she’s stood tall. As Senior Lecturer and Director at Kibabii University’s Institute of Gender and Development Studies, Dr. Wepukhulu is not merely producing graduates, she’s nurturing thinkers, dreamers, and doers. Her classroom is more than a room, it’s a revolution in motion. When she’s not shaping policy or academic frameworks, she’s busy building futures through the Rispah Nasimiyu Foundation, or steering the Kenya Literature Bureau into a new era of informed imagination. Chairing a national institution is no small feat, but for her, ...