# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henry-odera-oruka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:38:31.617Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henry-odera-oruka"
name: "Henry Odera Oruka"
slug: "henry-odera-oruka"
description: "Henry Odera Oruka was a Kenyan philosopher who is best known for \"Sage Philosophy\". It was a project started in the 1970’s in an attempt to preserve the knowledge of the indigenous thinkers in traditional African communities."
tagline: "Kenyan philosopher (1944-1995)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-06-01"
deathDate: "1995-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.31
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.013212
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Odera_Oruka"
    title: "Henry Odera Oruka"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607102"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump