Margaret wanjiru gakuo biography books

Former First Lady Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo Kenyatta is today celebrating her 60th Birthday.

According to Wikipedia, Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo was born on 8 April 1964 to a Kenyan father, Njuguna Gakuo, a former director of the Kenya Railways Corporation, and a German mother, Magdalena.

She attended Kianda School, St. Andrews School in Molo, Kenya, and received a Bachelor of Education from Kenyatta University.

The educator served as First Lady of Kenya from 2013 to 2022.

She has voiced her opinion on a number of social issues in Kenya ranging from mother and child wellness, including a mother-baby hospital unit named after her.

The former First Lady has encouraged patients to fight cancer through early screening for breast, cervical and prostate cancer and tackling diabetes by encouraging a healthy lifestyle.

She is also a big supporter of numerous educational and charity programs in Kenya, taking part in the opening of WE Charity College in Narok County, and promoting the conservation of historic sites and monuments.

She went into history books by heading up a campaign, dubbed the Beyond Zero Campaign, to reduce child maternal mortality rates.

On 24 October 2014, she was named Kenya Person of the Year.

She is Catholic and serves as an alumna of the Catholic girls’ school, Kianda School.

As famousnakuru.co.ke, we wish Former First Lady Margaret Wanjiru Gakuo Kenyatta a HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

Family of Jomo Kenyatta

For other people, see Kenyatta (surname).

The Kenyatta family is the family of Jomo Kenyatta, the first President of Kenya and a prominent leader in that country's independence. Born into the dominant Kikuyu culture, Kenyatta became its most famous interpreter of Kikuyu traditions through his book Facing Mount Kenya.

Born Kamau Wa Muigai at Ng'enda village, Gatundu Division, Kiambu to Muigai and Wambui, Jomo Kenyatta served as the first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. His date of birth, sometime in the early to mid 1890s, is unclear. In 1914, he was baptized a Christian and given the name John Peter which he changed to Johnstone. He again later changed his name to Jomo in 1938. He adopted the name of Jomo Kenyatta taking his first name from the Kikuyu word for "burning spear" and his last name from the masai word for the bead belt that he often wore.

His son Uhuru Kenyatta, who he fathered late in life, served as the fourth President of Kenya from 2013–2022.

Jomo Kenyatta's family

First wife

In 1919, Jomo Kenyatta met and married his first wife Grace Wahu, according to Kikuyu tradition. When it became apparent that Grace was pregnant, his church elders ordered him to get married before a European magistrate, and also undertake the appropriate religious rites. (The civil ceremony didn't take place until November 1922.) On 20 November 1922 Kamau's first son, Peter Muigai, was born (he died in 1979); a daughter, Margaret Kenyatta, was born in 1928 (she died in 2017). Peter became an Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Margaret served as Mayor of Nairobi (1970–76) and then as Kenya's Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–86). Grace Wahu died in April 2007.

Second wife

He had one son, Peter Magana Kenyatta (born on August 11, 1944), from his short marriage with Edna Clarke. He lives in London after retiring from BBC

“Politics is about governance, politics is about leadership. Church is about governance, church is about leadership. […] So for me, it’s about leadership, it’s not about religion.” (Bishop Margaret Wanjiru on Capital FM, February 8, 2013)

1In November 2012, after a period of speculations over her political future, Bishop Margaret Wanjiru, standing at the pulpit of her Jesus Is Alive Ministries (JIAM) church in Nairobi, announced her intentions to run for the position of the governor of Nairobi in the upcoming 2013 elections on an Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) ticket. She was to be the first woman to vie for this position, created as part of the extensive structural changes resulting from the new 2010 constitution (Citizen TV, November 18, 2012). By then, Wanjiru’s political career had been nothing short of remarkable. As early as 2003 she had begun to expand her operations outside the church and its immediate business ventures (Parsitau, 2011: 135). In 2007, Wanjiru was elected MP on an ODM ticket for Starehe Constituency, an area in the North Eastern part of Nairobi. In 2008, Wanjiru was appointed Assistant Minister for Housing, and in 2010 she successfully reclaimed her Starehe seat after bi-elections were called following a petition filed in the courts by her 2007 rival, Maina Kamanda. Throughout these proceedings, Wanjiru maintained her leadership role in the church. Her political rise seemed all the more impressive considering her unorthodox starting point, to which she herself often alludes: a poor background, a self-made woman in a men’s world, a single mother, and the founder and leader of one of Nairobi’s leading Pentecostal congregations. On top of these all, in light of ethnic rivalries that culminated in the post-elections violence of early 2008, the association of the Kikuyu bishop with ODM, a dominantly Luo party, has