US-based Kenyan scholar, Calestous Juma is dead. Prof Juma, who until his death was teaching at Harvard University, was the only Kenyan to be listed in the inaugural list of “2017 Most Reputable People on Earth”.

He was in June named as one of the most reputable people in the world. Prof Juma died while undergoing treatment in Boston, Massachusetts.

The scholar, who has been unwell for sometime died at the age of 63.