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Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta (born 8 April 1964) is a Kenyan educator who served as First Lady of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. She is the wife of Uhuru Kenyatta , the immediate former Kenyan president. Biography [ edit ]
Margaret Wambui Kenyatta (16 February 1928 – 5 April 2017) was a Kenyan politician. She was the daughter of the first President of Kenya , Jomo Kenyatta , and his wife Grace Wahu . She served as the mayor of Nairobi from 1970 to 1976 and as Kenya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1976 to 1986. [1]
On 20 November 1922 Kamau's first son, Peter Muigai, was born (he died in 1979); a daughter, Margaret Kenyatta, was born in 1928 (she died in 2017). Peter became an Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, and Margaret served as Mayor of Nairobi (1970–76) and then as Kenya's Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–86). Grace Wahu died in ...
Jomo Kenyatta [a] CGH ( c.1897 – 22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti- colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first president and played a significant role in the transformation of Kenya from a colony of the ...
The Beyond Zero Campaign is an initiative launched by Kenya's First Lady, Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta. Its goals are to improve maternal and child health in Kenya, and to reduce new HIV infections among children. [1] The campaign was unveiled in 2013 on World AIDS Day, and launched on 24 January 2014. Many international organizations have joined ...
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta CGH ( / ʊ.huː.ruː kɛn.jɑː.tɑː / ⓘ born 26 October 1961) is the fourth president of Kenya from 2013 to 2022. [1] [2] Kenyatta is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya's first president, and his fourth wife Mama Ngina Kenyatta. [3] He has been married to Margaret Gakuo Kenyatta since 1991.
Margaret Kenyatta was the first black woman to serve as Mayor of Nairobi, Kenya. Luxembourg City elected its first woman mayor, Colette Flesch, in 1970. In 1975, Ella Stack became the first woman elected Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia Unita Blackwell was the first African American woman elected mayor in Mississippi. She served as mayor of ...
Opening remarks by Margaret Kenyatta on the history of the conference were followed by the general discussion. The general session discussed that women ought to be able to live securely under conditions which granted them equality and justice, but there was a recognition that time is required to change traditional views and make people aware of ...