Nazlin in the university of pennsylvania human rights series’ published in 2011 and launched online in october 2012 for use in all the universities in america and across the world for law students on human rights studies; nazlin has once more made history and her hard work has been noted and unknown to her, been profiled as a case study on an entire chapter by the university of pennsylvania, usa, in the pennsylvannia studies in human rights series’ published by university of pennsylvannia press, in the volume titled gender and culture at the limit of rights’ edited by doroty l. Hogdekinson professor and chair of the department of anthropology at rutgers university usa in chapter nine titled muslim women, rights discourse and the media in kenya’ authored by professor ousseina d. Alidou. The volume is described in the words of the editor professor dorothy l. Hodgeson as follows:

“The volume is an inter-disciplinary collection, authored by well known distinguished scholars and examines the potential and limitation of women’s rights as human rights framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice drawing detailed case studies from the USA, Africa, Latin America and elsewhere…

 NAZLIN HAS ONCE MORE MADE HISTORY AND HER HARD WORK HAS BEEN NOTED AND UNKNOWN TO HER, BEEN PROFILED AS A CASE STUDY ON AN ENTIRE CHAPTER BY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISONSIN, USA, IN THE BOOK TITLED, “MUSLIM WOMEN IN POST COLONIAL LEADERSHIP IN KENYA- LEADERSHIP, REPRESENTATION AND SOCIAL CHANGE” AUTHORED BY PROFESSOR OUSSEINA D. ALIDOU. CHAPTER 5 ON NAZLIN IS TITILED, MUSLIM WOMENANDTHE USE OF NEW MEDIA – INSCRIBING THEIR VOICES IN RIGHTS DISCOURSE” DESCRIBES THE ROLES OF SIX MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE JUDICIARY, PARLIAMENT, MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND IS DESCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR AND REVIEWS AS FOLLOWS:

Alidou introduces readers to extraordinary Kenyan Muslim women who deftly weave together secular, religious and activist perspectives to transform their communities. Their stories, and Alidous astute analysis, portray the challenge facing the twenty-first-century agents of change” Susan Hirsch, author of pronouncing and perservering Gender and the discourse of disputing in an African Islamic court.

More journalists are said to have covered the war in Iraq than any other conflict in history. About 600 were “embedded” with American or British forces. Several hundred independent or “unilateral” reporters covered the story from inside Iraq or the surrounding countries. Some 200 journalists hunkered down in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, as bombs rained down from American and British warplanes. The reporters produced a vast flood of news for print, broadcast and online media.

Among them were correspondents from IPS. Their coverage differed from that of most news agencies that could afford to assign teams of correspondents to Iraq itself. IPS largely ignored the “shock and awe” aspect of the conflict – the numbers of bombs dropped and smart missiles launched, or the progress of the war on the ground.

Ms Nazlin Umar must be one bitter Kenyan reeling from the negative effects of our ethnicized politics. Madam Umar is one presidential candidate who made her name in the NGO circles long time ago in championing women rights but have no significant tribal voting block to call her own.

And the Kenyan version of resilient Bhutto is determined to go all the way despite all the odds stack against her. Having been booted out of both ODMs (please spare me the petty whys) she found political accommodation in the fringe Workers party whose flag she is flying and seeking to secure Kamkunji constituency seat. But what can we learn from Nazlin’s political tribulations?

Depending on your political leaning she is either one who banked on a facade of importance derived from her feminine course or an astute and principled Kenyan out to prove a point no matter the consequences.