Education
University of Nairobi.
University of Nairobi.
He is the first black African general authority of the church and the second general authority of black African descent. Sitati is a native of Kenya. He has a bachelor"s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Nairobi.
In 1989, he became the first district president of the church in Kenya.
Sitati also became the first stake president in Kenya when the Nairobi Kenya Stake was organized in 2001. In 2004, Sitati became an area seventy of the church and in 2007 he became the president of the Nigeria Uyo Mission.
He was still a mission president at the time of his call to the First Quorum of the Seventy in April 2009. He served as a counselor in the church"s Africa West Area from 2010 to 2013.
He then served for a time as an assistant executive director of the church"s temple department.
Sitati became an adviser to the church magazines in 2014. In 2015, Sitati became the editor of the church magazines, succeeding Craig A. Cardon, who in turn succeeded Sitati as one of the advisers.
He worked in the oil and gas industries (such as Total Oil) as well as for Reach the Children, for which he was also a member of their international board.
