Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Anne Waiguru: The doyenne of huduma services
    Until she was introduced to Kenyans by President Uhuru Kenyatta as he named members of his first Cabinet, few people knew Anne Mumbi Waiguru. Her credentials were impeccable. In Cabinet, her star shone brightly. On TV shows she displayed confidence. […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Mukhisa Kituyi – Master of the hunt
    Just like the young David felled Goliath with just five stones, to the disbelief of onlookers, so was a modern-day ‘David’ from Kimilili determined to fell a giant of his own; not with five stones, but with tsibili tsibili, the two-finger multiparty salute. His name was Mukhisa Kituyi. Born and […]

Moi Cabinet

  • John Henry Okwanyo – The anti-majimbo maverick
    John Henry Okwanyo was one of the longest-serving Members of Parliament for Migori in Nyanza region. He was also a close friend and point man of President Daniel arap Moi whom he served with total loyalty as a friend, confidant and Cabinet minister for decades. The no-nonsense minister is best […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • Ramogi Achieng’ Oneko – Principled to the end
    Freedom fighter Ramogi Achieng Oneko will be remembered as a principled politician who was ready to die for his country. He was the only freedom fighter who was detained by the colonial and the Kenyatta regime, and lived to tell the story. He was in […]
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