The Echoes of Social Justice Trends in Kenya: A Case of The Rt. Rev. Bishop Alexander Kipsang’ Muge

Abstract

The late Bishop Alexander Muge of the Anglican Church of Kenya, Diocese of Eldoret, made a remarkable contribution to the struggle for social justice in Kenya in the post-colonial era. However, his contribution to the struggle for social justice in Kenya has not been scholarly studied, hence the need for the present study. The purpose of the study was to establish the extent of Muge’s contribution to the making of Kenya’s trends in social justice. The objective of the article was to evaluate Rt. Rev. Alexander Kipsang’ Muge’s efforts towards empowering Kenyan society socially and economically. Liberation theology, as understood and used by theologians in Latin America in the early 1900s, was applied to the exploration of Muge’s struggle for social justice and the economic empowerment of Kenyan society. Knowledge of Muge’s contribution to the making of Kenya’s history as well as being one of the architects of the struggle for democracy in Kenya, underlie the significance and justification of the study. Data was collected from both primary and secondary sources. Archival and oral sources were significant in generating data. Purposive sampling, especially the snowball technique was used to identify interviewees. Analysis and interpretation of data employed a quantitative historical method. The findings of the study fill a knowledge gap about Rt. Rev. Bishop Alexander Kipsang’ Muge’s contribution to the cause of justice and socio-economic empowerment of the post-colonial Kenyan society.