Uhuru Cabinet
Prof. George Magoha: Stern overseer of education reformsAugust 14, 2022Upon 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
Raphael Tuju – The ace of political messagingApril 25, 2022If a poll were taken among Kenyans about what President Mwai Kibaki’s greatest legacy is, what would come out on top? Free primary education? Road infrastructure development? Economic growth? Maybe all of them as one inseparable package. But think again: There is a critical mass of the Kenyan […]
Moi Cabinet
Peter Habenga Okondo – A loose tongue proved to be his final undoingMay 1, 2022Throughout his political career that spanned the colonial years until 1990, Peter Habenga Okondo was known for being outrageously outspoken; so much so that the media commonly referred to him as a man with a loose tongue. During the 1992 multiparty election campaigns, he was quoted as chiding […]
Kenyatta Cabinet
Julius Gikonyo Kiano – Champion of African small-scale businessApril 29, 2022Julius Gikonyo Kiano, the first Kenyan to obtain a PhD degree, was a pioneer scholar and freedom hero. He was born in 1926 at Githiga in Kangema, Murang’a District. He went to Weithaga Primary and Kagumo Intermediate schools before joining Alliance […]