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

  • Henry Kosgey – The every party chairman
    Kosgey was a loyal aide to President Daniel arap Moi, evident in the six Cabinet positions (including Transport and Communications, Culture and Social Services, Education, and Cooperative Development) he served in the Kenya African National Union (KANU) government between 1979 and 2002. “I was a […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Paul Joseph Ngei – Volatile man of influence
    Paul Joseph Ngei had a burning, often-expressed ambition to succeed Kenya’s first President, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. This yearning for power would later become his albatross when he was a Cabinet Minister under President Daniel arap Moi. Due to his close association with Kenyatta spanning nearly […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • Taaitta Toweett – The odd man of Kenya’s politics
    Dr Taaitta Kipyegon arap Toweett was born in 1925. He started school at Litein Primary and later joined Kabianga Mission School. In the 1948 Kenya African Preliminary Examination, he emerged the top pupil in the country. He joined Alliance High […]
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