Revered scholar Prof Everett Standa is dead. The former Kenyatta University Vice Chancellor, and CEO, Commission for University Education was a respected educationist in the country.

The scholar known for his poem I Speak for the Bush, is an icon in the league of Chris Wanjala, Francis Imbuga, Margaret Ogolla, Ngugi wa Thiongo and Micere Mugo.

Everett Standa is forever remembered as an icon in art together with the likes of his art is that of heart, one that is loved by everyone and that which transforms generation to generation.

According to his wife, Elizabeth Smith, the late Standa had prostate cancer and was operated in 2016 in India.

In 2019, he had heart surgery and some few months later he developed stroke.

“Since then he has been on wheelchair and undergoing medication until 2022 when he was completely bedridden,” said Smith.

He died on Sunday night at Lugulu Mission Hospital. Standa’s works have evidently been employed in the education sector especially in the field of poetry. Soft-spoken as he was, Everett was an undergraduate student at the University of Nairobi in the late 1960’s and most of his works as he spoke to the nation was written in these times.

As a scholar at the university, he started his poetry career as early as he had just joined undergraduate studies and of course.