Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Amb. Amina Mohammed: Long-serving lawyer turned diplomat
    Amina Chawahir Mohamed Jibril is the epitome of the ideal Kenyan bureaucrat. Hers is the quintessential story of an African woman who rose from a humble background to become one of Kenya’s leading diplomats and a public servant in three different […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Karisa Maitha – The coastal hurricane
    From humble beginnings in his native Mombasa County where he was born in 1954, Karisa rose from a dedicated Clinical Officer to a leader of note and a Cabinet Minister, packing a full life and career into the 50 years that turned out to be his lifespan. Historically, leaders who are larger than […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Dr Protus Momanyi Kebati – Passionate engineer, reluctant politician
    As a politician, Dr Protus Kebati Momanyi served two terms in the Kenya National Assembly from 1988 to 1997. During this time he was an assistant minister in two ministries and the Minister for Tourism and Wildlife. A quiet and unassuming engineer and politician, he is perhaps remembered for his […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • James Osogo – Oversaw growth of hospitals
    What comes to one’s mind whenever one converses with James Charles Nakhwanga Osogo is Shakespeare’s dictum in as you like it: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man […]
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