Kenya YearBook Editorial Board | Cabinets

Uhuru Cabinet

  • Betty Maina: The master multitasker
    She seemed destined for greatness right from the start. Betty Maina attended the prestigious Alliance Girls High School before joining the University of Nairobi for a degree in Land Economics, followed by a stint at University College London, from […]

Kibaki Cabinet

  • Githu Muigai – Doyen of circumspect phraseology
    Muigai is a founding partner at one of the most successful indigenous law practices in Kenya, Mohammed Muigai LLP, where his prowess was undisputed. His legal scholarship, already well developed at graduation from the University of Nairobi in 1983, was solidified at Columbia Law School where he […]

Moi Cabinet

  • Joseph Kamau Kamere – A victim of the times
    To friends and foes alike, Joseph Kamau Kamere’s appointment as Kenya’s third Attorney General came as an absolute shocker. The only person who must have smiled, perhaps sardonically, for days on end at this most unlikely appointment was Charles Njonjo, independent Kenya’s pioneer AG and the man […]

Kenyatta Cabinet

  • James Samuel Gichuru – Gentle, but made of sterner stuff
    Born in 1914 to pioneer Christians Samuel Gitau and Mariam Nyaguthii, James Samuel Gichuru was the first of nine children. His 90-year-old sister Hannah Wanjiku says that at a young age, Gichuru led a life different from boys his age, mostly because […]
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