General Debate speaker

Mungai

Addressed the General Debate 4 times for Kenya, between 1970 and 1973 — 15,322 words in all. The longest was 1973, at 4,323.

Also recorded as “MUNGAI” — the roster spells one person several ways across the decades, and these statements are grouped as one.

The record gives a surname and no more. United Nations rosters before the mid-1990s often record only a family name, so these 4 statements are grouped by that name and the name of the state. Where a state sent two people who shared a surname, this page would combine them, and nothing in the record would show it.

02,5005,0001970: 3,412 words1971: 4,262 words1972: 3,325 words1973: 4,323 words19701973
Length of each statement, in words.

Statements

YearSessionOfficeWords
1970 25 not recorded 3,412
1971 26 not recorded 4,262
1972 27 not recorded 3,325
1973 28 not recorded 4,323

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

apartheid 23 decolonization 14 colonialism 11 disarmament 11 non aligned 8 human rights 7 self determination 7 poverty 4

Counts of words from a published list across these 4 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what Mungai said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.

Where this page comes from