Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Joseph Ole Lenku: Reluctant warrior
    Often coming across as lost and perplexed during press conferences, it seemed as if Joseph ole Lenku, the former Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government, would much rather have been somewhere else, not answering […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Suleiman Shakombo – President’s coast pointman
    Suleiman Rashid Shakombo was a totally unknown entity in Likoni before he entered the political arena in 1997. He left the Provincial Administration and, backed by an unfamiliar party, unseated Khalif Salim Mwavumo who was from the more familiar Forum for the Restoration of Democracy-Kenya […]

Moi Cabinet

  • William Odongo Omamo – Kenya’s eloquent and polished politician
    William Odongo Omamo will go down in history as a smooth operator, one of the few Cabinet ministers who served in the first and second governments as a Member of Parliament in an opposition zone. Like his nickname, Kaliech (like an elephant), Omamo’s contribution to Kenya’s political landscape was […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • Jomo Kenyatta, Alliance High School and Carey Francis
    Before it opened in January 1926, Alliance High School was supposed to be a medical college. But how the failure to build the college would later transform both the political landscape and shape a new elite that would rule Kenya for ages is the epic […]
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