Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Prof. George Magoha: Stern overseer of education reforms
    Upon taking the Oath of Office on 26 March 2019, Prof. George Omore Magoha joined President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Cabinet as the Jubilee government’s fourth Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology. His predecessors were Prof. Jacob […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • John Katuku – Strategist at the right place at the right time
    As it turned out, Katuku was a beneficiary of a rebellion within the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) that had swept into power in 2002 with Kibaki as the presidential flag bearer. After forming his first Cabinet, President Kibaki’s government set about backing a referendum on changing the […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Jeremiah Kiereini – Taking the heat at the helm of the Civil Service
    As Kenya approached independence, a young Jeremiah Kiereini was employed by the colonial government as part of a ‘pipeline’ constituted to ‘rehabilitate’ Mau Mau detainees. This was 1955 and marked the beginning of a government career that would span three decades and see him rise through the ranks […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • How Jomo Kenyatta settled in Ichaweri
    The declaration of a state of emergency gave the Government the perfect excuse it had been seeking to not only round up all “the political undesirables”, but  also start executing a system of disinheriting the seized leaders of their land. When the […]
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