Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha

Professor Chacha Nyaigotti Chacha (born 22 August 1952 in Kuria District, Nyanza Province, Kenya) is a Kenyan playwright and educationalist. He was an executive secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (2000–2010), and the first CEO of the Kenyan Higher Education Loans Board (1995–2000). He is the chairman of the Kenyan Commission for University Education (CUE).

He was educated at Kenyatta College, receiving a BEd (Honours) (Swahili Language), and later studied at Yale University, gaining an MA in Anthropological Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Swahili Language Linguistics. He has been a Tutorial Fellow and Lecturer in Swahili Language and Linguistics at Kenyatta University and later Egerton University in Kenya. He was a Research Professor at the Institute of Regional Integration and Development of the Catholic University of East Africa.

Merits 2004 Awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) Medal (Kenya).

1994 Awarded Head of State Commendation (HSC) Medal (Kenya) for Distinguished Service.