Mississippi State University First Lady Rhonda Keenum, seated left, presented His Excellency Elkanah Odembo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the U.S., seated right, with a commemorative MSU cowbell following a luncheon in Odembo's honor on Thursday in the Swalm
Mississippi State University First Lady Rhonda Keenum, seated left, presented His Excellency Elkanah Odembo, the Kenyan Ambassador to the U.S., seated right, with a commemorative MSU cowbell following a luncheon in Odembo's honor on Thursday in the Swalm Chemical Engineering Building Suite. Shown with Ambassador Odembo were K.C. Morrison, head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration and MSU's senior fellow in African Studies, standing left, and MSU Provost Jerry Gilbert, standing right. Odembo personally knew fellow Kenya-native Wangari Maathai, the late author of "Unbowed" who wrote the memoir selected by university leaders as the 2012 Maroon Edition. To learn more about Odembo's visit or MSU's Maroon Edition, visit http://www.maroonedition.msstate.edu.
